Leasehold flats: ‘I want I had by no means touched them’ | EUROtoday

Leasehold dates again lots of of years – earlier than girls even had the proper to personal property – to a time of lords and landowners, peasants and serfs. Campaigners in opposition to leasehold say it ought to be abolished, it’s feudal and unfair, permitting freeholders – who in impact personal the land flats and a few homes are constructed on – to extract cash from leaseholders through managing brokers.