Aja’ Mallory is a staff attorney at the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service. Her practicefocuses on housing and consumer issues for Marylanders of limited means. This week, she discusses ground rent.

This blog summarises the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act 2022, which is the first concrete step in the government's wider residential leasehold reforms. The Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act 2022 ...

Ground rent is to be scrapped on new leases in England and Wales from 30 June when the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act takes force, the Government announced today (22 April). From this point, ...

The King’s speech announced a new Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill ‘to reform the housing market by making it cheaper and easier for leaseholders to purchase their freehold and tackling the ...

Leaseholders have been having a bad time of it lately. Not only have they had to suck up soaring service charge demands, many existing owners have come to realise Matthew Pennycook’s promises of ...

New York continues to face a dire housing crisis. The severe shortage of affordable homes disproportionately impacts low and middle-income families. Yet, rather than focusing on legislation that will ...

Vornado Realty Trust says the land beneath its office building at 330 West 34th Street is worth $145 million. The land’s owner, Haymes Investment Company, claims its value is $225 million — entitling ...

Ground rent owners aren?t unscrupulous villains swooping in to steal homes ? they just want to get paid. At least that?s what they told members of a House of Delegates committee working Thursday on a ...

Birinder Madan has lived at 100 West 57th Street with his wife and daughter for 20 years. But since the Werner Group bought the land underneath his co-op in 2014, he’s been in a “perpetual state of ...