An under-appreciated aspect is how land law interacts with building preferences. In the UK if you own a house, broadly speaking you have complete control over i

An under-appreciated aspect is how land law interacts with building preferences. In the UK if you own a house, broadly speaking you have complete control over its configuration and its costs. Leasehold, which is the dominant model for apartments, gives that control to the owner of the whole building. This is basically a recipe for nasty surprises. The average English person isn’t a law expert. But they know someone with a flat, and that they’re constantly complaining about their landlord.