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Closed Amend Housing Act 1988 so leaseholders cannot be treated as ASTs

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Leasehold properties could become unsaleable because under the Housing Act 1988 the freeholder could seek to evict the leaseholder as an Assured Shorthold Tenant for non-payment of ground rent, where this is more than £250 a year.

We want the Housing Act 1988 to be amended so freeholders cannot start eviction proceedings on the basis of non-payment of ground rent, as though the leaseholder were an Assured Shorthold Tenant.

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