Briefings
Topical issues, legislative and policy changes, and the latest operational issues all explained in an easy-to-read format, with suggestions for future action. These specialist briefings provide guidance, comment, suggested actions and good practice information on all the key issues for leasehold teams across the sector.
Briefings
Briefings are free to members.
Non-members may purchase selected briefings for a fee. Contact us on 01904 557150 to enquire or join the network for full access to all briefings as part of your membership.
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| Format | Status | Title | Description | Size | Download | |
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| Current | Briefing: leasehold reform – extending leases and buying freeholds (enfranchisement) | File size: 734KB | Published Date: 17/06/2020 | Download | ||
| Current | Opinion: Maintaining trust by Mo Crouch, United Living | File size: 192KB | Published Date: 11/06/2020 | Download | ||
| Current | Opinion: On the third anniversary by Phil Murphy | File size: 139KB | Published Date: 11/06/2020 | Download | ||
| Current | Briefing: Universal Credit and shared owners/leaseholders | File size: 807KB | Published Date: 28/05/2020 | Download | ||
| Current | Briefing: Training needs analysis – some tips on doing it well | File size: 1MB | Published Date: 21/05/2020 | Download | ||
| Current | Notes: Complaints handling during COVID-19 | File size: 137KB | Published Date: 13/05/2020 | Download | ||
| Current | Briefing: Managing lender repossessions – a leasehold management perspective | File size: 691KB | Published Date: 16/04/2020 | Download | ||
| Current | Briefing: COVID-19 - Service charges | File size: 1MB | Published Date: 16/04/2020 | Download | ||
| Current | The Colin Wiles blog: Wanted: Leasehold fairness | File size: 190KB | Published Date: 16/01/2020 | Download | ||
| Current | Leaseholder satisfaction – what lies behind the ratings | File size: 6MB | Published Date: 14/10/2019 | Download | ||
| Current | Briefing note: Regulation of property and letting agents | File size: 217KB | Published Date: 04/10/2019 | Download | ||
| Current | The Colin Wiles blog: Staircase to Heaven? | File size: 232KB | Published Date: 19/09/2019 | Download | ||
| Current | Blog: Leasehold Reform | File size: 292KB | Published Date: 17/05/2019 | Download | ||
| Current | Briefing: leaseholder service charges for in-house provision | File size: 948KB | Published Date: 09/05/2019 | Download | ||
| Current | Summary note: new-build houses being sold as leasehold | File size: 366KB | Published Date: 01/05/2019 | Download | ||
| Current | Briefing: shared ownership staircasing | File size: 821KB | Published Date: 09/04/2019 | Download | ||
| Current | Briefing: buying the freehold landlord’s offers and tenants’ claims | File size: 2MB | Published Date: 13/03/2019 | Download | ||
| Current | Briefing: leasehold reform – setting out the agenda for change | File size: 960KB | Published Date: 14/02/2019 | Download | ||
| Current | Briefing: Housing review of the year 2018 | File size: 681KB | Published Date: 30/01/2019 | Download | ||
| Current | Briefing: leasehold enfranchisement – a brief overview | File size: 298KB | Published Date: 16/10/2018 | Download | ||
| Current | Guidance note: S146 notices and forfeiture | File size: 604KB | Published Date: 11/09/2018 | Download | ||
| Current | Briefing: The Social Housing Green Paper | File size: 990KB | Published Date: 17/08/2018 | Download | ||
| Current | MHCLG executive summary: A new deal for social housing | File size: 3MB | Published Date: 17/08/2018 | Download | ||
| Current | Briefing: leasehold redress in social housing | File size: 676KB | Published Date: 31/07/2018 | Download | ||
| Current | Briefing: relative values | File size: 1MB | Published Date: 16/07/2018 | Download | ||
| Current | Briefing: Building a safer future – the Hackitt Review: An overview | File size: 901KB | Published Date: 08/06/2018 | Download | ||
| Current | Briefing: funding emergency works to cladding and waking watches | File size: 353KB | Published Date: 20/04/2018 | Download | ||
| Current | Briefing: Gas Safety Regulations - April 2018 | File size: 276KB | Published Date: 19/03/2018 | Download | ||
| Current | Briefing: an end to unfair and abusive practices in leasehold | File size: 1MB | Published Date: 13/02/2018 | Download | ||
| Current | Revised guidance: The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 | File size: 144KB | Published Date: 02/02/2018 | Download | ||
| Current | Briefing: the case for commonhold | File size: 746KB | Published Date: 04/01/2018 | Download | ||
| Current | Briefing: Data Protection what leasehold teams at social landlords must know | File size: 984KB | Published Date: 06/12/2017 | Download | ||
| Current | Briefing: shared ownership – changes and opportunities | File size: 2MB | Published Date: 09/11/2017 | Download | ||
| Current | Briefing: leasehold management fees | File size: 315KB | Published Date: 05/10/2017 | Download | ||
| Current | Commentary: Tackling unfair leasehold practices | File size: 129KB | Published Date: 12/09/2017 | Download | ||
| Current | Briefing: tackling unfair practices in the leasehold market | File size: 875KB | Published Date: 04/09/2017 | Download | ||
| Current | Briefing: Grenfell Tower aftermath | File size: 286KB | Published Date: 10/08/2017 | Download | ||
| Current | Briefing: following the Grenfell Tower fire, London | This is a briefing, drafted by The Health and Safety Network which considers all the information, guidance, facts and speculation that have emerged since this shocking event and provides some initial guidance with regard to the actions that leasehold teams should consider. | File size: 219KB | Published Date: 20/07/2017 | Download | |
| Current | Briefing: an overview of Wandsworth Council’s Right to Part Buy | File size: 300KB | Published Date: 07/07/2017 | Download | ||
| Current | Briefing: gaining popularity – the shared ownership tenure | File size: 185KB | Published Date: 07/07/2017 | Download | ||
| Current | Briefing: making leasehold pay - income recovery | Ahead of one of the topics at the forthcoming best practice workshops, this new briefing takes a look at the movement from credit control and arrears management towards 'legal action'. | File size: 320KB | Published Date: 15/05/2017 | Download | |
| Current | Briefing: The Housing White Paper 2017 – a leasehold perspective | This briefing by Ann Faulkner explores a number of solutions are set out in the proposals and the relevance to leasehold practitioners. | File size: 318KB | Published Date: 22/03/2017 | Download | |
| Current | Briefing: leasehold case law update 2016 | This briefing by Lauren Pond and Jonathan Hulley of Clarke Willmott looks at three significant and different legal case studies, which will certainly provide food for thought going forward. | File size: 203KB | Published Date: 07/12/2016 | Download | |
| Current | Briefing: event fees in retirement properties | In 2014, the DCLG asked the Law Commission to investigate event fees. Some leases require the leaseholder to pay a fee on certain events, such as sale or sub-letting. These fees, which are referred to as 'event fees', are common in specialist housing for older people, but rare in other residential leases. | File size: 251KB | Published Date: 09/11/2016 | Download | |
| Current | Briefing: Section 20 consultation and the intermediate landlord | At this summer’s Leasehold Excellence Network London and South-East best practice workshop there was a lively debate regarding Section 20 consultation where there is an intermediate landlord. | File size: 177KB | Published Date: 08/09/2016 | Download | |
| Current | Briefing: portability and the Voluntary Right to Buy | In October 2015, housing associations agreed to work with the government to deliver its election commitment to extend the Right to Buy | File size: 223KB | Published Date: 18/08/2016 | Download | |
| Current | Briefing: Tackling Right to Buy Fraud | Following the introduction of the Right to Buy for council tenants in 1980, two million households have purchased their council homes. A spike of sales in the early 1980s saw 160,000 properties a year transferring into private ownership, but by 2011, and following the property crash, this was down to 4,000. | File size: 148KB | Published Date: 11/05/2016 | Download | |
| Current | Briefing: administering Service Charges effectively | It is likely that very few social landlords recover all of the service charges due to them from their tenants, leaseholders and freeholders. Efficient administration and collection of service charges for landlords with a large stock of mixed tenure properties is not easy, and there are a good number of circumstances that occur which can lead to errors and miscalculations which have a negative impact on service charge collection. This guidance looks at the main areas which can be contributing factors to a shortfall in service charge income. | File size: 181KB | Published Date: 14/04/2016 | Download | |
| Current | Briefing: Update on voluntary Right to Buy (VRTB) and the pilot schemes | This month's briefing for members looks at the development of the Right to Buy pilots and the latest issues across the sector for both housing associations and local authorities & ALMOs. | File size: 199KB | Published Date: 23/03/2016 | Download | |
| Current | Briefing: ensuring financial inclusion | Welfare benefit provision has been reducing in recent years and the ‘safety net’ provision is gradually being removed. | File size: 234KB | Published Date: 03/02/2016 | Download |