Is time ticking on leasehold altogether?
News Editor’s View: Scott McGee asks if the insurance industry's headache of having to justify the fees charged to flat owners for arranging cover is about to be replaced by the pain that will come with leasehold status being ditched for commonhold ownership.
Back in 2023, the paying of broker commissions to freeholders, landlords and managing agents for arranging cover for flats following the Grenfell fire was in the spotlight.
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