Lydia Furner

Why have SME housebuilders gone from building 40% of Britain’s homes to just 10–12%? In Show House, Real Estate Partner, Aleem Khan explores the financing and planning barriers holding smaller developers back and what needs to change.

Is the Government’s latest plan to reform home buying a real fix or just a digital twist on the old HIPs? Residential Property Partners, Saskia Arthur and Edward Allan, and Senior Associate, Kate Symons, explore how the proposed “Home Buying and Selling Reform” could reshape (or repeat) history.

Some landowners may still be liable for repairing the chancel of a parish church, a historic legal obligation dating back to the feudal system. In this article, Partner, Saskia Arthur and Senior Associate, Kate Symons look at the Law Commission’s consultation on reforms to the Land Registration Act 2002 (LRA), which seeks to clarify how chancel repair liability should be recorded and enforced, not to abolish it, but to ensure the relevant provisions of the LRA operate as originally intended.

The Renters’ Rights Bill 2024, which is likely to gain Royal Assent by September 2025 for implementation by early 2026, will have a significant impact on the current assured shorthold tenancy regime for both landlords and tenants. There will be a transitional period to allow landlords and tenants to familiarise themselves with the new legal framework, however once in effect, the changes will apply retrospectively, governing both existing assured shorthold tenancies and new tenancies.