Jeremy, who is also a North London estate agent, is expecting King Charles III to cover the Leasehold and Commonhold Reform Bill and Building Safety Remediation Bill tomorrow.

A draft of the Leasehold and Commonhold Reform Bill was published in January 2026 with the MHCLG Select Committee conducting pre-legislative scrutiny of this.

The Building Remeditation Bill has already been mooted with the government planning to introduce this “as soon as parliamentary time allows.”

Jeremy is anticipating both to be covered, but points to complexity with both.

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“We appreciate [leasehold and commonhold] is a hugely difficult issue to reconcile between that desire to extend leases and purchase freeholds, cap ground rents and introduce commonhold — all of which have much merit — against the importance of ensuring the freeholders are happy to stay in the market and carry out some of the health and safety and improvement works which sometimes only professional freeholders can deliver,” said Jeremy.

"That raises the other question which is control over management and more transparency over service charges.

“Of course, leaseholders want to seek that clarity but many would be reluctant to take on the responsibility of freeholders and managing agents for that work given the financial consequences which could be significant if things don’t go according to plan.”

With Building Safety, Jeremy insisted it was important to learn lessons from the Grenfell Disaster but warned about balancing this with the need for housing delivery.

He added: “The delay in implementing the changes required is compromising market activity and in some cases preventing new work going ahead at a time when there are so many other reasons for builders and developers not to put spades in the ground."