Housing

Fern Schofield & Gwyneth Everson round up the lessons learnt from key property decisions in Spring 2025

A proposed £20m boost for housing and immigration legal aid practitioners has been confirmed

The government plans to replace leasehold with commonhold, recently consulting on the ‘best approach to banning new leasehold flats’. In this week’s NLJ, Mark Chick, senior partner at Bishop & Sewell, argues the case for reform rather than an outright ban

Mark Chick ponders the leasehold v commonhold conundrum, arguing for reform, not replacement

Andrew Francis looks back at six pieces of 1925 property legislation, brought into effect by vigorous effort & with a legacy that remains largely intact

Some things are simply built to last. In this week’s NLJ, Andrew Francis, barrister at Serle Court, looks at six pieces of property legislation which passed into law on the same day 100 years ago and which remain familiar friends to property lawyers today

In the first part of a new series for NLJ, Fern Schofield & Gwyneth Everson set out the facts & the significance of the most noteworthy property cases from the past few months

Recent caselaw in property come under the careful scrutiny of Fern Schofield and Gwyneth Everson, Falcon Chambers, in this week’s NLJ, in a new series of quarterly reviews.

From moths in the attic to the right to manage, 2024 provided a plethora of landmark real estate litigation cases. In this week’s NLJ, Ben Hatton, director of property litigation, Jordan Gulwell, lawyer, and Natasha Vij, trainee solicitor, at Clifford Chance, survey the stand-out cases and set out some lessons to learn from each.

Ben Hatton, Jordan Gulwell & Natasha Vij explore 2024’s stand-out cases in real estate litigation: what can we learn for the coming year?