Collective enfranchisement

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Collective enfranchisement is a legal term in English property law used to describe a process whereby leaseholders of a block of flats of apartments can buy out their freeholder. The right to collective enfranchisement was granted by the Leasehold Reform Housing and Urban Development Act 1993. [1]

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  1. "Collective Enfranchisement | Leasehold Enfranchisement".