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Leasehold reform in the UK

The UK government has proposed two rounds of leasehold reform:

banning new ground rents
reforming commonhold, enfranchisement and the Right To Manage

The first of these is already the law; the second will be in the Queen's Speech in a few weeks. In parallel, there is controversial legislation before Parliament concerning building safety.

Those are the reforms which are actually going to happen, and for which there is a real timetable; these reforms are basically inevitable. On the other hand, there is a set of initiatives which the government has committed to without giving a timetable:

regulation of property agents
giving freeholders on private estates the inadequate rights of leaseholders
banning the sale of leasehold houses
reforming forfeiture of freehold houses

Some of these matters date back as far as 2017.

Thirdly, there are necessary or desirable reforms which the government has not committed to at all; some are supported by the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership and other worthy bodies, but not all:

making commonhold mandatory for new-built blocks of flats
making commonhold available to all other blocks of flats
reform of service charges
banning insurance commissions and related abuses
providing private estate freeholders with the option to use commonhold or RTM for common parts
regulation of housing associations

and many others.

There is a growing deficit: the market is changing more quickly than the government can reform, and there is huge opposition from the donor class and the property industry.

There is little sense in government that it is losing control of the situation, with hundreds of thousands of new abusive tenures created annually due to the mass housebuilding programme. Nor is there a understanding that everyone who wants to own a home, but didn't enter the market before about 2010 is exposed to vicious monopolists, with no means of redress legally or politically, and a growing awareness of the abuses. The situation is not sustainable, and it is dangerous for a (largely middle-income) one-sixteenth of the population to become utterly disaffected with the legal and political system.

Something has to give.

Commons Library note re reform timetable