Property weekly highlights—2 December 2021

Table of contents

• Coronavirus (COVID-19)
• Public Bill Committee calls for evidence on Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Bill
• Property management
• Construction of service charge machinery/costs recovery clauses
• Breach of residential tenant insurance covenants/unreasonable claims by landlord
• Residential service charge dispute—reasonableness and dispensation from consultation
• Residential property
• Public Bill Committee invites evidence on Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill
• New Homes Quality Board and Consumer Code
• First keyworkers benefit from First Homes scheme

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Article summary

This week's edition of Property weekly highlights includes: calls for evidence on the Leasehold (Ground Rent) Reform Bill and the Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Bill, a Court of Appeal case on service charge machinery and costs recovery clauses, a new consultation on stamp duty land tax on mixed use property and multiple dwellings relief and the outcome of the call for evidence on the simplifying the VAT land exemption.