Leasehold flats hit the 70-year hitch

5 March 1999

In evidence last week to the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions’ consultation document on leasehold reform, the association said leases of less than 70 years are ‘effectively unmortgageable, apart from in central London, and saleable only at a discount’. It added that residents in flats with short ...

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