Archive for April 2022

A new fund has been set up to help builders provide an extra 10,000 new homes over the next three years. The Housing Growth Partnership II (HGP) has been established by Lloyds Banking Group and Homes England and will provide £300 million to small and medium-sized regional housebuilders in the UK. The partnership aims to…

An elderly farmer who suffered from dementia understood what he was doing when he changed his will shortly before his death and so the alterations should be accepted as representing his true wishes. That was the decision of the Court of Appeal in a case involving a dispute between members of the same family. In…

A government ban on charging ground rent on new leases is set to cut costs for future homeowners by hundreds of pounds a year. The ban comes into force in England and Wales on 30 June 2022. Leasehold is a form of home ownership that gives a leaseholder the exclusive right to live in a…