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Failure to enact the Law Commission’s recommendations and banning leasehold houses & setting future ground rents to ZERO is a failure to fix the broken housing market\r\n\r\nThe Law Commission proposals are about “making our homes ours, rather than someone else’s assets” Prof Nick Hopkins, Law Commissioner\r\n\r\n“Justice delayed is Justice denied” (Robert Jenrick, July 2020)\r\n\r\nGOVERNMENT MUST FULFIL THEIR PROMISE\r\nLeaseholders deserve more than empty promises","committee_note":null,"state":"closed","signature_count":17605,"created_at":"2020-08-17T09:50:05.230Z","updated_at":"2022-02-10T10:38:00.223Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2020-09-14T09:09:28.232Z","closed_at":"2021-03-14T23:59:59.999Z","moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2020-08-17T10:31:44.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":"2020-10-07T15:16:24.000Z","government_response_at":"2020-10-28T15:09:19.690Z","debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":null,"government_response":{"responded_on":"2020-10-28","summary":"The Government has confirmed it will ban the sale of new leasehold houses and restrict grounds rents to zero for future leases. We will bring forward legislation as soon as parliamentary time allows.","details":"The Government is committed to promoting fairness and transparency for homeowners and ensuring that consumers are protected from abuse and poor service. As part of this, we are taking forward a comprehensive programme of reform to end unfair practices in the leasehold market. This includes measures to ban the sale of new leasehold houses, restrict ground rents to zero for future leases, give freehold homeowners equivalent rights to challenge unfair charges, and close loopholes to prevent unfair evictions.\r\n\r\nGiven the impact of Covid-19 on the legislative agenda, and the Government’s wider priorities to restart the economy, we will bring forward leasehold legislation as soon as parliamentary time allows. However, it is worth noting that in advance of legislation the numbers of new-build leasehold houses coming onto the market has already significantly decreased: 1% of new build houses were registered as leasehold in the last three months of 2019, compared to 17% in the first three months of 2017. \r\n\r\nAs part of our reform programme, we are working with the Law Commission - an independent body which keeps the law of England and Wales under review – on a number of important areas. This includes:\r\n\r\n-\tEnfranchisement: to make buying a freehold or extending a lease easier, quicker and cheaper;\r\n-\tCommonhold: to remove barriers to and reinvigorate Commonhold so that consumers have a choice of tenure; and\r\n-\tRight to Manage: to ensure that the law works effectively so that residents in blocks are more easily empowered to take on the management of their properties, if they wish to do so.\r\n\r\nIn January this year, the Law Commission published the first of four reports, on the valuation aspects of enfranchisement, and on 21 July the Law Commission published a further three reports on the remaining aspects of enfranchisement as well as Commonhold and Right to Manage. Details can be found here: https://www.lawcom.gov.uk/project/residential-leasehold-and-commonhold/. The Government has welcomed the Law Commission’s reports. We will consider all their recommendations carefully and respond in due course.\r\n\r\nFinally, the Government asked the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to investigate potential mis-selling of homes and unfair terms in the leasehold sector. The CMA published an update in February this year which identified concerns, including high and increasing ground rents, sales practices, and use of permission fees and charges. On 4 September, the CMA announced that it was opening enforcement action focussing on certain practices of four housebuilders. The Government has welcomed the steps being taken to tackle potential mis-selling and unfair terms in the leasehold sector and wants to see homeowners who have been affected obtain the justice and redress they deserve.\r\n\r\nThe CMA has now written to the companies concerned outlining its concerns and requiring information. How the case proceeds will depend on the CMA’s assessment of the evidence. 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