4/3/2025 3:22:25 PM Publication of new NHBC Housing Warranty Policies including changes in respect of insolvency cover By Triya Maicha Philip Evans Ben Halsey On 1 April 2025, the National Housebuilding Council (NHBC) published an updated version of its Buildmark and Buildmark Choice Housing...
3/31/2025 11:19:28 AM Spring Statement - 2025 By Ben Halsey The key announcements for the housing sector in the Chancellor's Spring Statement last week were as follows: 2bn grant...
3/26/2025 11:54:04 AM 5 key takeaways from Devonshires' Breakfast Briefing on the Commonhold White Paper By Jonathan Corris Mark Foxcroft Ben Halsey Earlier this week, we were pleased to hold a breakfast briefing on the Government’s Commonhold White Paper (CWP). The briefing...
3/25/2025 2:08:17 PM Treasury announces additional £2 Billion Investment in Affordable Housing By Ben Halsey Triya Maicha Jonathan Jarvis Another day, another ‘once in a generation’ announcement, but the latest significant boost to existing grant funding has, for the most...
3/4/2025 11:10:30 AM The Government has announced the beginning of the end of the ‘feudal’ leasehold system By Zoe McLean-Wells Mark Foxcroft Shannon Morrison On 3 March 2025, the Ministry of Housing published the Commonhold White Paper which seeks to make landmark reforms on the leasehold...
3/3/2025 8:43:32 AM Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 - Sections affecting Right to Manage come into force today By Zoe McLean-Wells Mark Foxcroft Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 sections in relation to the Right to Manage to come into force today (3 March 2025) On the 6...
2/25/2025 1:18:20 PM The one about the Moths, the Mansion, and Misrepresentation - Iva Patarkatsishvili & Yevhen Hunyak v William Woodward-Fisher [2025] EWHC 265 (Ch) By Ben Halsey Stavrina Tofallis Judgment has now been handed down by the High Court in the above case: Judiciary.uk Aside from representing a unique opportunity for...
2/12/2025 4:22:04 PM Breaking news - Top-up package announced for Affordable Housing funding programme(s) By Ben Halsey Additional funding has been announced in respect of the existing Affordable Homes Programme (AHP) - £300m for the delivery of up to 2,800...
12/18/2024 10:18:10 AM Homes England publishes ‘clearance’ database of Section 106 affordable housing sites By Ben Halsey Triya Maicha Jonathan Corris Jonathan Jarvis +1 more... Show less Homes England (HE) has now made available the Section 106 Affordable Housing Clearing Service, which is a database (or what some are...
11/27/2024 12:24:43 PM Leasehold and Commonhold Reform - An update By Mark Foxcroft Zoe McLean-Wells On 21 November 2024, the Ministry of Housing published a press release announcing their intention to implement further provisions of the...
10/2/2024 8:20:38 AM Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund, Wave 3 and Subsidy Control Compliance By Joanna Bouloux Jonathan Jarvis Applications for the Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund (formerly known as the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (the “Fund”)), Wave 3...
5/29/2024 2:26:17 PM The Principal Accountable Person regime: the FTT's first decision By Hannah Keane Zoe McLean-Wells Ellie Fletcher The First Tier Tribunal ('FTT') has made its first determination under section 75 of the Building Safety Act 2022 ('the BSA') as to the...