Leasehold abolition faces complex hurdles despite government push for commonhold reform

Leaseholders experience significant financial stress from escalating service charges and ground rents, affecting retirement security and housing stability for millions of homeowners.

For nearly a thousand years, England's land tenure system has placed millions of flat-dwellers in a subordinate relationship to freeholders — paying for the ground beneath their own homes, subject to charges they cannot easily contest. Now, a government reform bill seeks to replace this feudal inheritance with commonhold, a collective ownership model already common across the developed world. The ambition is clear, but the path runs through contested compensation claims, reluctant lenders, and the quiet difficulty of persuading millions of institutions and individuals to reimagine what it mean

Leasehold abolition faces complex hurdles despite government push for commonhold reform

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