Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024
Act of ParliamentThis bill passed all stages in both Houses and received Royal Assent.
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Long title
A bill to prohibit the grant or assignment of certain new long residential leases of houses, to amend the rights of tenants under long residential leases to acquire the freeholds of their houses, to extend the leases of their houses or flats, and to collectively enfranchise or manage the buildings containing their flats, to give such tenants the right to reduce the rent payable under their leases to a peppercorn, to regulate the relationship between residential landlords and tenants, to regulate residential estate management, to regulate rentcharges and to amend the Building Safety Act 2022 in connection with the remediation of building defects and the insolvency of persons who have repairing obligations relating to certain kinds of buildings.
Progress through Parliament
- 1st reading· Commons
27 November 2023 – 27 November 2023
- 2nd reading· Commons
11 December 2023 – 11 December 2023
- Programme motion· Commons
11 December 2023 – 11 December 2023
- Money resolution· Commons
11 December 2023 – 11 December 2023
- Ways and Means resolution· Commons
11 December 2023 – 11 December 2023
- Committee stage· Commons
16 January 2024 – 30 January 2024
- Report stage· Commons
27 February 2024 – 27 February 2024
- 3rd reading· Commons
27 February 2024 – 27 February 2024
- 1st reading· Lords
28 February 2024 – 28 February 2024
- 2nd reading· Lords
27 March 2024 – 27 March 2024
- Committee stage· Lords
22 April 2024 – 1 May 2024
- Report stage· Lords
24 May 2024 – 24 May 2024
- 3rd reading· Lords
24 May 2024 – 24 May 2024
- Consideration of Lords amendments· Commons
24 May 2024 – 24 May 2024
- Royal Assent· Unassigned
24 May 2024 – 24 May 2024
Source: UK Parliament Bills API. Bill ID: 3523.