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Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024

A bill to prohibit the grant or assignment of certain new long residential leases of houses, to amend the rights of tenants under long residential leases to acquire the freeholds of their houses, to extend the leases of their houses or flats, and to collectively enfranchise or manage the buildings containing their flats, to give such tenants the right to reduce the rent payable under their leases to a peppercorn, to regulate the relationship between residential landlords and tenants, to regulate residential estate management, to regulate rentcharges and to amend the Building Safety Act 2022 in connection with the remediation of building defects and the insolvency of persons who have repairing obligations relating to certain kinds of buildings.

The story so farThe Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill was introduced in the House of Commons on 27 November 2023 by Michael Gove (Conservative). It completed its passage through Parliament and became law as the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024, receiving Royal Assent on 24 May 2024.

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Source: the official bill page. Last updated 15 Apr 2025.