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Victoria Duxbury
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Mar 07, 2025

Commonhold 2.0: Commercial Takeaways from the Government’s White Paper

The UK Government’s Commonhold White Paper, published on 3 March 2025, commits to making commonhold the default tenure for flats in England and Wales. A reboot of the commonhold legal framework…
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Feb 28, 2025

Government response to Grenfell Phase 2 report – an overview

The government has published its Response to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry’s Phase 2 report. This Insight takes a closer look at the Response focusing on some of the major reforms the government plans to…
Insights
Jan 08, 2025

Energy Performance of Buildings regime - MHCLG and DESNZ set out ambitious targets in a new consultation building on the previous MEES consultations

The UK government has launched a consultation to reform the Energy Performance of Buildings (EPB) regime, a crucial step towards achieving the nation’s ambitious net-zero targets by 2050. This…
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Nov 20, 2024

COP29 Update – Decarbonising the Built Environment: the Challenges and Opportunities

The decarbonisation of the built environment is likely to be on the UK Government’s agenda as it looks to make good on its commitment at COP29 to cut carbon emissions by 81% from 1990s level by 2035.…
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Nov 18, 2024

The High Street is feeling the love… or is it?

It’s “Love your High Street Week”! So, what better way to start the week than to consider two significant legal reforms announced by the government last week, that are intended to boost and revitalise…
Insights
Mar 08, 2024

Changes to The Register of Overseas Entities Regime – the impact of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 on real estate

The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA) received Royal Assent on 26 October 2023, with the provisions of ECCTA to be brought in by secondary legislation in stages throughout…
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Nov 02, 2023

Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards – here to stay or at risk of becoming redundant?

In September, ahead of the Conservative party conference, Rishi Sunak announced a step back from the Government’s net zero policy and targets.  This was followed up last week by the Government’s…
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Aug 22, 2023

Building safety – details of the design, construction and occupation regimes

On 17 August 2023, the government published details of the design, construction and occupation regimes which will be introduced for higher-risk buildings, coming into effect on 1 October 2023. Those…
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Jul 13, 2023

Register of Overseas Entities – duty to file update regardless of any change – process and implications

The Register of Overseas Entities launched nearly a year ago on 1 August 2022. The Register was established as a measure to increase transparency in the ownership of overseas entities that own UK…
Insights
May 05, 2023

MEES, the next chapter: plotting residential real estate’s route to net zero

MEES Regulations have meant that since 1 April 2020 landlords of residential property have been prohibited from letting out properties below a minimum EPC rating of E unless they have registered an…
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Mar 29, 2023

MEES, the next chapter: plotting commercial real estate's route to net zero

1 April 2023 sees the last step in the MEES phase 1 journey come to fruition – meaning that (with limited exceptions) you cannot continue to let sub-standard property (that has an EPC rating below an…
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Jul 21, 2022

Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 – Obligation to Register at Companies House from 1 August 2022

The Government has now announced that it intends to launch the Register of Overseas Entities at Companies House (“ROE”) on 1 August 2022 with the land registration elements of the legislation to come…
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