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  • King’s Speech shows incremental change is all Starmer knows

    Opinion

    Keir Starmer says incremental change won't cut it, yet his King's Speech was nothing but tinkering and rearranging, writes Matthew Bowles.

    King delivers powerful speech at 2026 summit, addressing global challenges and future strategies, captured in formal setting.
  • How to fix the housing crisis? We’ve told the government again and again and again

    Opinion

    I’m a London estate agency chairman – and I’m tired of talking about the same housing problems every month, writes Simon Gerrard.

    (Photo by Chris Radburn - Pool/Getty Images)
  • A short history of leasehold, and why it’s taken so long to end the ‘feudal’ system

    Housing

    In the King’s Speech, the Government finally outlined plans to phase the “feudal” system out of England and Wales.  Here's why it took so long

    Why have leasehold rules stuck around for so long?
  • King’s Speech: Labour to phase out leasehold system

    July 17, 2024

    Labour will ban the sale of leasehold flats and attempt to replace the system with commonhold, according to plans unveiled in the King's Speech today.

  • Ground Rents Income Fund has published its results for the year to 30 September

    July 4, 2024

    Schroders' Ground Rents Income Fund has called an Emergency General Meeting after "significant challenges... largely out of its control" caused consecutive hefty drops in the value of its portfolio.

  • ‘A better outcome’: Ground rents investor expresses relief at decision not to cap charges

    June 2, 2024

    Ground Rents Income Fund has said changes to the law are not as bad as epxected.

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