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The government must match this service expansion with new funding for LEASE, to enable it...

Recommendation
The government must match this service expansion with new funding for LEASE, to enable it to advise both leaseholders and commonholders. MHCLG must work closely with LEASE to develop a suite of practical guidance to promote awareness and understanding of commonhold, and to support both leaseholders who are converting to commonhold and consumers buying properties in new commonhold developments. These resources must be published and additional staff recruited ahead of the new commonhold legal framework becoming available for use. The government must also extend the organisation’s provision of government-funded legal advice to support homeowners to make informed decisions about their blocks’ conversion to commonhold. (Recommendation, Paragraph 220)