Property Power Hour - on the Road, Southampton, 22 September 2026
The latest developments shaping the future of conveyancing.
Commentary
Our Spotlights and Commentary are concise, expert-authored updates giving you the information and guidance you need to address the practical impact of recent case law, legislation and practice developments.
The end of forfeiture? What the commonhold and leasehold reforms mean for residential lease enforcement
Phil Parkinson and Charlotte Gregory examine proposals to replace forfeiture for long residential leases with a court-supervised enforcement regime. They explore what the changes could mean for remedies, costs and the strategies of practitioners advising landlords and leaseholders
On qualified electronic signatures
Nearly a year after HM Land Registry approved the use of qualified electronic signatures, uptake is still languishing in single figures. Richard Oliphant explains why flawed guidance, not the technology, is to blame and how to fix it
Awaab’s Law – Phase 2
Kerri Harrison and Baljit Basra look at the details of the second phase of Awaab’s Law and how practitioners can prepare for implementation
SDLT – how commercial is ‘commercial’?
In Andrew Charles Ferguson & Gemma May Ferguson v HMRC [2026] TCO9782, the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) found that residential stamp duty land tax (SDLT) rates applied on a property purchase where a let paddock formed part of the grounds of the property. Julie Butler and Fred Butler look at the ...
Raising the bar
Digitalisation, upfront information and reducing transaction delays are usually the talking points of the government’s homebuying and selling reform programme. Yet the proposed statutory regulation of estate agents and managing agents has the potential to reshape the residential property sector more fundamentally than any technological reform, as Lucy Trevelyan reports
