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There is little inherently wrong with the leasehold system. Many mansion blocks work very well where either the freehold is owned by the tenants, or management is done by a tenant owned manco, and the reversion has imited ability to increase rent. The issue has only become toxic because recently developers saw an opportunity to make a further profit by making the reversion attractive to investors, and by extending the leasehold concept, totally unnecessarily, to estate houses. The problems can be resolved, as is shown by those developers who are engaging and putting right their leasehold developments. Legislation is also required for certain of the issues.

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