UK Housing

This is the placeholder landing page for my commentary and analysis of the UK housing situation.

Managing multi-family accommodation, UK-style

Meta

What should leaseholders campaign for in 2025?
What does abolishing leasehold really mean?
Phasing out leasehold
The Power to Appoint Managing Agents (PAMP)

Current parliamentary leasehold activity

What did Labour actually promise on leasehold?
How easily can LAFRA be commenced?
The Alleged Flaws in LAFRA2024
Politicians' interventions in leasehold disputes
Whose agenda was LAFRA implementing?
The Tories finally move to ban new leasehold houses (2024)
Prospects for leasehold reform (2022)
British homebuyers must boycott flats with third party managers
ALEP's PR campaign on leasehold reform
Politicians intervening in leasehold disputes
A solution to leasehold forfeiture
Information rights of English tenants

Right To Manage

RTM (several pages)

Enfranchisement & valuation

Enfranchisement
History of Marriage Value
Against retroactive Right To Participate in enfranchisement
Central problem with collective enfranchisement

Commonhold

Commonhold (WIP)
Commonhold and airspace development

Analysis

How many leaseholders are there?
Separating the hats in leasehold

Management companies and managing agents

The Companies Act and leasehold
Can you use a CIC for RTM?
Cooperatives for UK housing (bad idea)
Estate management company types
Statutory RMCs
Distinguishing MAs from RMCs
Mapping the block management territory
What is to be done about Residents Management Companies
Taking back control of a Residents Management Company, a case study

Fleecehold

Starting to grapple with fleecehold
Road adoption mechanisms

Anti-Social Behaviour

ASB / community trigger discussion
What Is To Be Done about ASB?

Historical

History of English land law
Freehold Land Societies
Phase-out of leasehold in Scotland (alleged)
History of Marriage Value

Problematic activism

Leasehold, forfeiture and rent-strikes
Capping variable service charges
Leasehold Derangement Syndrome
That claim that leasehold is only in England and Wales
Problems with "Adopt the Lot"
What is Shared Ownership?
The actual definition of "Affordable Housing"

YIMBYism etc

NIMBYs, YIMBYs, BANANAs and SULTANAs
What leaseholders wish Create Streets knew about tenure

Links

My UK housing link log
Old SFHAA links

TBD / Forthcoming