{"id":136602,"date":"2023-05-11T01:34:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T18:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/plans-to-abolish-feudal-leasehold-system-in-england-and-wales-dropped\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T01:51:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T18:51:54","slug":"plans-to-abolish-feudal-leasehold-system-in-england-and-wales-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/plans-to-abolish-feudal-leasehold-system-in-england-and-wales-dropped\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans to abolish \u2018feudal\u2019 leasehold system in England and Wales dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nRow between Michael Gove and No 10 results in end of promise to scrap leaseholdsWhat is leasehold, and are there any alternatives?Plans to abolish the \u201cfeudal\u201d system of leaseholds across England and Wales have been dropped after a battle between Downing Street and Michael Gove.Gove, the housing secretary, will next month announce a range of measures to protect the 10 million Britons who own their homes in a leasehold, as part of a major speech following months of bruising party rows over housing. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Row between Michael Gove and No 10 results in end of promise to scrap leaseholdsWhat...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-zxg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":149684,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/centuries-old-leasehold-system-to-be-abolished-in-england-and-wales\/","url_meta":{"origin":136602,"position":0},"title":"Centuries-old leasehold system to be abolished in England and Wales","date":"March 3, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Exclusive: Housing minister says overhaul of feudal-era system would take place before end of this parliamentThe housing minister has promised to abolish the centuries-old leasehold system in England and Wales before the end of this parliament, as the government takes the next steps towards an outright ban on new\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":140159,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-abolish-leasehold-an-antiquated-and-unfair-system-observer-editorial\/","url_meta":{"origin":136602,"position":1},"title":"Let\u2019s abolish leasehold, an antiquated and unfair system | Observer editorial","date":"November 5, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"\r It\u2019s simply a money-making scam that allows landowners to exploit those who have bought their own homes\u2018This system is not business, it is blackmail,\u201d Lloyd George said of leasehold in 1909. 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