The Leasehold & Freehold Reform Bill: Beyond the Headlines

Announced in The Kings Speech late last year, the Leasehold & Freehold Reform Bill promises to make long-term changes to homeownership for millions of leaseholders in England and Wales, with the central aim of making it easier and cheaper for leaseholders to extend their lease or buy the freehold.

The Bill is working its way through Parliament at speed, and reforms of this scale will affect everyone involved in property, including you and your business. It’s also a highly complicated area of law, with inevitable “winners and losers”, so it’s important to know and understand all the proposed changes ahead and learn what you can do to protect yourself and your clients.

By attending this webinar with Paul Sams and Sarah Sams from Dutton Gregory Solicitors, who are experts in residential property, plot sales and social housing, you’ll gain:

• Better knowledge of everything the act proposes
• A deeper understanding of how this will affect you and your clients
• Key insights into the potential difficulties you will face

There will also be time in the Live Q&A to ask Paul and Sarah your specific leasehold and freehold questions, but please submit your questions when registering for the best chance of them being included in the webinar.

About the speakers

Paul Sams, Managing Partner, Dutton Gregory Solicitors

Paul decided he wanted to be a solicitor at just seven years old. Since then he has become an award winning and nationally recognised expert in the field of residential property law. More recently, he was elected Managing Partner at Dutton Gregory Solicitors by his fellow Partners and stepped up to the role this year.

Paul is a seasoned legal speaker having been asked to lecture other lawyers across the country and invited to speak for The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and different Housing Associations on quite a few occasions.

Sarah Sams, Partner – Head of Residential Property, Dutton Gregory Solicitors

Sarah is a seasoned social housing specialist with an encyclopaedic knowledge of this complicated area of law, having worked with some of the largest social housing providers in the UK including advising the providers themselves as well as their tenants/buyers.

Clients appreciate Sarah’s straightforward and hard working commitment to them above all else.  Before qualifying as a solicitor, Sarah trained to become an accountant but realised that she wanted to use her law degree to practice law. Sarah has worked for a couple of Legal 500 firms as well as being Head of Department in two smaller firms before joining Dutton Gregory.