UK:
White Paper On Housing: Fixing The Housing Market?
21 February 2017
Bishop and Sewell LLP
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The Government has today published its White Paper on housing
– see the paper entitled 'Fixing our Broken Housing
Market':
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/590043/
Fixing_our_broken_housing_market_-_housing_white_paper.pdf
There are lots of interesting points including proposals to
tackle abuses particularly in relation to the creation of long
leasehold houses with ground rents – which is particularly
pertinent given the recent media interest in this issue.
For comment from Mark Chick see http://www.leaseholdreformnews.com/
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