The Government has today published its White Paper on housing – see the paper entitled 'Fixing our Broken Housing Market':

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/590043/
Fixing_our_broken_housing_market_-_housing_white_paper.pdf

There are lots of interesting points including proposals to tackle abuses particularly in relation to the creation of long leasehold houses with ground rents – which is particularly pertinent given the recent media interest in this issue.

For comment from Mark Chick see http://www.leaseholdreformnews.com/

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