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Leasehold: Ground Rent

Asked by Rebecca PaulConservativeMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled Answered 5 January 2026UIN 99005

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what evaluation his Department has made of the need to ensure that planned reforms to the leasehold system address the matter of leaseholders struggling to sell share-of-freehold

Answered by Matthew Pennycook

The government is committed to addressing unregulated and unaffordable ground rents and we will do this in legislation. We will set out further details on our detailed plans for existing ground rents in due course.

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