Introduction of Right to Manage Reforms

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has announced that the Right to Manage (RTM) measures in the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 will come into force on 3 March 2025. RTM is the right for lessees of flats in a qualifying building to take...

Leasehold Reform – removal of the 2 year ownership requirement

The 2 year ownership requirement in relation to leasehold enfranchisement will be removed on 31 January 2025. This means that to qualify for a statutory lease extension of a flat or a house, or to qualify to acquire the freehold of a leasehold house, the lessee will...

Nick Gregory: 01/10/44-22/01/25

We were sorry to learn of the death on 22 January 2025 of Nick Gregory, a former partner in the firm. Nick joined the firm in 1968 after training with a large city practice. He had wide-ranging experience of litigation and matrimonial law matters, leaving the...

Time is Running Out for ‘No Fault’ Section 21 Repossessions

Since the Renters’ Rights Bill (“the Bill”) has cleared its third reading in the House of Commons, and in the first of a series of articles analysing what the coming Act will mean for landlords and tenants, our Property Litigation Team look at the transitional...

Update on Leasehold Reform

The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (LAFRA 2024) was passed last summer to make a number of reforms, but most of these are still to be implemented. The Minister of State for Housing and Planning provided an update in November 2024 regarding leasehold reforms....

Grant Saw retains Lexcel accreditation for 2025

We are pleased to share that Grant Saw has successfully retained our Lexcel accreditation for 2025, the Law Society’s prestigious legal practice quality mark, following a thorough assessment. Since first achieving this standard in 2007, we have consistently...