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Leasehold Knowledge Partnership

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Do NOT buy a new property with ground rents

Do NOT buy a new property with ground rents
Martin Boyd

Martin Boyd resigns from LKP

Martin Boyd resigns from LKP
Keep freeholders

Report from Tchenguiz Family Trust, Long Harbour and Wallace Estates seeks to side-line leasehold reforms by fear-mongering over fire safety

Report from Tchenguiz Family Trust, Long Harbour and Wallace Estates seeks to side-line leasehold reforms by fear-mongering over fire safety
Radius scandal Taylor Wimpey

Radius leaseholders rumble Taylor Wimpey for trying to flog off freehold to property punters …

Radius leaseholders rumble Taylor Wimpey for trying to flog off freehold to property punters …
Robert Jenrick Richard Desmond

Has Jenrick been saved by the Cummings furore for rushing through approval of 1,500 home Docklands scheme that would have handed £40m to former publisher Richard Desmond?

Has Jenrick been saved by the Cummings furore for rushing through approval of 1,500 home Docklands scheme that would have handed £40m to former publisher Richard Desmond?
Sir Bob Neill Grenfeel cladding

Sir Bob Neill becomes cladding chair at APPG

Sir Bob Neill becomes cladding chair at APPG

Get commonhold done, London Assembly tells government

Get commonhold done, London Assembly tells government

LKP vindicated by devastating CMA report into mis-selling of leasehold homes

LKP vindicated by devastating CMA report into mis-selling of leasehold homes
cladding scandal demo

Cladding scandal Westminster demo, February 25: three mayors, 27 MPs, 300 leaseholders, a swarm of media …

Cladding scandal Westminster demo, February 25: three mayors, 27 MPs, 300 leaseholders, a swarm of media …
fatcat freeholders

Fatcat freeholders SHAMED by MHCLG for having no plan to remove Grenfell cladding from their buildings include Long Harbour and James Tuttiett

Fatcat freeholders SHAMED by MHCLG for having no plan to remove Grenfell cladding from their buildings include Long Harbour and James Tuttiett
Roy Wilshire

Getting Cayman Islands freeholders to help with cladding crisis is an additional difficulty, says UK’s top fire chief

Getting Cayman Islands freeholders to help with cladding crisis is an additional difficulty, says UK’s top fire chief
Alison Thewliss MP

Special thanks to SNP Alison Thewliss MP for joining APPG to end leasehold unfairness (as Scottish system is so much better)

Special thanks to SNP Alison Thewliss MP for joining APPG to end leasehold unfairness (as Scottish system is so much better)
The Times Spread

The Times reports that families ‘lost £3 billion’ on resale of leasehold retirement flats, while developers and freehold speculators made millions

The Times reports that families ‘lost £3 billion’ on resale of leasehold retirement flats, while developers and freehold speculators made millions

Ruling blasts Israel Moskovitz’s lawyers for ‘wasting tribunal time’ in legal warfare that is ‘part of a pattern’, as RTM gains control of £69,000 funds

Ruling blasts Israel Moskovitz’s lawyers for ‘wasting tribunal time’ in legal warfare that is ‘part of a pattern’, as RTM gains control of £69,000 funds

Long Harbour hits reverse on forfeiture to £800,000 flat over £400 ground rent … and JB Leitch halves its legal bill

Long Harbour hits reverse on forfeiture to £800,000 flat over £400 ground rent … and JB Leitch halves its legal bill

Freehold for Elan Homes leasehold house doubles in price to £15,900 four months after being sold to Landmark Investments

Freehold for Elan Homes leasehold house doubles in price to £15,900 four months after being sold to Landmark Investments

Ground Rent Addicts Anonymous sign Brokenshire’s pledge (three years after the scandal they created and denied existed)

Ground Rent Addicts Anonymous sign Brokenshire’s pledge (three years after the scandal they created and denied existed)

Taxpayer boost for offshore speculators as Help To Buy lands 17,000 home buyers in leasehold

Taxpayer boost for offshore speculators as Help To Buy lands 17,000 home buyers in leasehold

Lawyers to Communities Select Committee: Stop ‘sticking plaster reforms’. End ‘draconian’ forfeiture. £10 ground rents a ‘mistake’. Make legal costs fair to leaseholders. Commonhold failed because developers make money out of leasehold …

Lawyers to Communities Select Committee: Stop ‘sticking plaster reforms’. End ‘draconian’ forfeiture. £10 ground rents a ‘mistake’. Make legal costs fair to leaseholders. Commonhold failed because developers make money out of leasehold …

Officials fail to stop LKP publishing legal opinions on flawed reform of Recognised Tenants’ Associations (RTAs)

Officials fail to stop LKP publishing legal opinions on flawed reform of Recognised Tenants’ Associations (RTAs)

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Martin Boyd

LKP trustees tell MHCLG that Martin Boyd can return to LKP any time

January 11, 2021

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: Jeremy Pocklington, Martin Boyd, MHCLG, Wanda Goldwag

Sunday Times: officials trying to gag leaseholders. Daily Mail: Wade funding proposal will crash property market

January 11, 2021

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, Press

RICS and lenders ease EWS1 for under-18m blocks which has blighted the re-sale market

January 8, 2021

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, RICSTag: EWS1, RICS

Law Commission praises LKP to Sir Peter Bottomley over ‘crucial’ role in obtaining leasehold reforms

January 8, 2021

Category: Latest News, Law Commission, News

Law Commission leasehold reform

Government announces ban on new ground rents now, THEN reform leasehold (which is what LKP recommended)

January 7, 2021

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: Ground rents, Law Commission

fire safety in flats

Freeholders must pay for cladding – or lose freeholds, say LKP patron MPs

January 5, 2021

Category: APPG, Cladding scandal, Latest News, News

LKP cladding levy

Here is how to avoid dumping the cladding scandal bill on leaseholders or taxpayers

December 19, 2020

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News

Wicker Riverside

Government steps back from dumping all cladding costs on leaseholders

December 17, 2020

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Cladding scandal, Dean Buckner, Michael Wade, Wicker Riverside Apartments

Claude Wehrle, Claude Schmidt Gwenaëlle Derrendinger)

Grenfell is becoming our worst corporate scandal, says Dominic Lawson in Sunday Times

December 14, 2020

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, NewsSlider, PressTag: Adrian Pargeter, Arconic, Celotex, Claude Schmidt, Claude Wehrle, Dominic Lawson, Eugene Murtagh, Gene Murtagh, Gwenaëlle Derrendinger, Kingspan, The Sunday Times

APPG on leasehold reform

Full APPG, December 10: Can be seen here

December 10, 2020

Category: APPG, Cladding scandal, Latest News, News

Dean Buckner

LKP calls for levy on developers and freeholders over cladding

December 6, 2020

Category: Latest News, News, PressTag: Dean Buckner, The Sunday Times

Cracks in the leasehold racket as Barratt London drops ground rents

December 5, 2020

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Barratt, Ground rents

Bob Bessell

Bob Bessell steps in as LKP’s new interim chair

December 5, 2020

Category: ARHM, Latest News, NewsTag: Bob Bessell

Hackney EWS1 charge

Hackney charges leaseholders £750 for EWS1

December 4, 2020

Category: Latest News, Local authority leasehold, NewsTag: Hackney

cladding Tory donors

Only seven cladding sites in Tory constituencies … as Build! Build! Build! developers pour in party donations

December 2, 2020

Category: Latest News, News, Press, RedrowTag: Delancey, James Reuben, James Tuttiett, Private Eye, Redrow, Steve Morgan

Social Housing Annual Conference

You are better than commercial developers and freeholders so be kind over the cladding catastrophe, LKP urges housing association conference

December 1, 2020

Category: Housing associations, Latest News, NewsTag: Housing associations

Clive Betts MPs

MPs attack government for dumping historic building failures onto leaseholders

November 24, 2020

Category: Cladding scandal, Communities Select Committee, Latest News, News

Long Harbour Board

Oh, dear! Long Harbour private equity speculators buy freehold where ground rent FALLS from £250 to £143

November 23, 2020

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, William Waldorf Astor

Two-storey planning give-away

Tory councillors and Labour MP back leaseholders in blocking ERE freeholds shoving up two more storeys under Jenrick’s planning give-away

November 12, 2020

Category: Latest News, News, PressTag: Robert Jenrick

Baroness Dianne Hayter

Baroness Dianne Hayter criticises LKP for not taking part in property managers’ new code of practice

October 23, 2020

Category: ARHM, ARMA, FPRA, IRPM, Latest News, News, RICSTag: ARHM, ARMA, Baroness Hayter, IRPM, RICS

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£100,000

Peverel / FirstPort pays compo – ‘goodwill gesture’ – after collusive tendering racket for electronic door entry systems at retirement sites.

£12 million

Legal and General prompted to pick up the full Grenfell cladding removal cost at Blenheim Centre / Reflexion in Hounslow.

£130 million

Taylor Wimpey puts aside £130 million to re-write the doubling ground rent leases which it dumped on its customers.

£1.6 billion

After two years of indecision – and no help from freehold ‘building owners’ – government sets up a Grenfell cladding removal fund. But it is not enough …

Would any of this have happened without the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership?

Shared ownership

Housing associations furious at government’s 10-year repair-free offer to new shared owners

September 17, 2020

Category: Latest News, News, Shared ownershipTag: A2Dominion, Ballymore, Brendan Sarsfield, City Wharf Hoxton, Eric Pickles, Florence Bourne, Florrie's law, Housing associations, Local authority leasehold, Major works, Notting Hill Genesis, Optivo, Paul Hackett, Peabody, Section 20, Shared ownership, Shula Rich, Wardian London

City Wharf Hoxton

A2 Dominion to dump 100% cladding costs on to 25% shared owners at City Wharf Hoxton

April 2, 2020

Category: Cladding scandal, Housing associations, Latest News, News, Shared ownershipTag: A2Dominion, City Wharf Hoxton, Cladding scandal, Covid-19, Housing associations, Shared ownership

Giles Peaker shared ownership

Shared ownership: a misnomer that can be worse than renting and worse than leasehold, says solicitor

March 26, 2020

Category: APPG, Latest News, News, Shared ownershipTag: Giles Peaker, Ruth Cadbury MP, Shared ownership

shared ownership price falls

Telegraph reports plummeting value of shared ownership flats

February 24, 2020

Category: Latest News, News, Press, Shared ownershipTag: Shared ownership, The Daily Telegraph

Notting Hill Genesis cladding

Brexit day prisoner: Polish father desperate to sell Notting Hill Genesis cladding flat to join ailing family back home

January 31, 2020

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, Shared ownershipTag: Cladding scandal, EWS1, Housing associations, Notting Hill Genesis, Shared ownership

Housing association Network Homes seeks to dump some of its £200m cladding costs on leaseholders

January 6, 2020

Category: Housing associations, Latest News, News, Shared ownershipTag: Grenfell cladding, Housing associations, Network Homes, Shared ownership, The Times

London Assembly members

Shared ‘ownership’ is NOT ownership. It’s the ‘pay-day loan’ of housing and most regret having bought, London Assembly told

November 5, 2019

Category: Latest News, News, Shared ownershipTag: Andrew Boff, Housing associations, London Assembly, Nicky Gavron, Shared ownership, Tom Copley

Tory MP Stephen McPartland shames Long Harbour / Adriatic Land into dropping doubling ground rent leases

March 15, 2019

Category: Latest News, News, Parliament, Shared ownership, William Waldorf AstorTag: Adriatic Land, Richard Silva, Shared ownership, Six Hills House, Stephen McPartland MP, William Waldorf Astor

Advertising Standards Authority rules against Notting Hill Genesis on over-egged shared ownership adverts

February 21, 2019

Category: Latest News, News, Press, Shared ownershipTag: Advertising Standards Authority, Anne Heelan, Notting Hill Genesis, Shared ownership, The Daily Telegraph

Merrin Somerset Webb

Don’t buy leasehold, says Merryn Somerset Webb of Money Week, but …

September 5, 2018

Category: Latest News, News, Press, Shared ownership, William Waldorf AstorTag: Merryn Somerset Webb, Money Week

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Press

Astor Tchenguiz planning windfall

Two-storey planning windfall means billions for freeholders, reports The Times

July 2, 2020

Category: Latest News, News, PressTag: Count Luca Rinaldo Contardo Padulli, Northpoint, The Times, Vincent Tchenguiz, Wallace Partnership Group, William Waldorf Astor

Barking Riverside fire survivors round on secretive freeholder Adriatic Land, reports BBC R4

July 1, 2020

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, PressTag: Adriatic Land, ARMA, Barking Riverside, BBC R4 You and Yours, Building safety reform, Dame Judith Hackitt, Long Harbour, Melanie Abbott, MHCLG, Nigel Glen, Robert Jenrick, UKCAG

Rob Perrins Grenfell cladding

At last, some sense over the cladding crisis from … Rob Perrins, of the Berkeley Group

June 18, 2020

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, PressTag: Berkeley, John Christodoulou, Rob Perrins, West India Quay

Pincher defends absent Jenrick in bad tempered Commons clash over Richard Desmond £1bn planning scandal

June 13, 2020

Category: Latest News, News, Parliament, PressTag: Adam Boulton, Affordable housing, Alan Brown MP, Andrew Wood, Boris Johnson, Christopher Pincher MP, Clive Betts MP, Daily Express, Daily Mail, Dominic Cummings, Financial Times, Huffington Post, James Daly MP, John Biggs, Kevin Hollinrake MP, Law Commission, Lobbying, London City Hall, London Docklands Development Corporation, MHCLG, Planning reform, Policy Exchange, Richard Desmond, Richard Thomson MP, Rishi Sunak, Robert Jenrick, Sadiq Khan, Shaun Bailey MP, Sir Ed Davey, Sir Edward Lister, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Sky News, SNP, Steve Reed, Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi MP, The Daily Telegraph, Tower Hamlets, Westferry Printworks

Brindley House cladding leaseholders face eviction, reports BBC R4 You and Yours

May 22, 2020

Category: Cladding scandal, Insurance scams, Latest News, News, PressTag: ARMA, BBC R4 You and Yours, Birmingham Leasehold Action Group, Brindley House, Cladding insurance, Cladding scandal, Covid-19, Flood Re, Insurance, Islington Gates, Lord Greenhalgh, Melanie Abbott, Nigel Glen, Poll Re, Shabana Mahmood MP, UK Cladding Action Group, UKCAG

The Times reports criticisms of Jenrick’s two-storey planning windfall to what he called ‘egregious’ freeholders

March 23, 2020

Category: Latest News, News, PressTag: Airspace, Andrew Ellson, Apex Airspace, Arshad Bhatti, Jack Airey, Law Commission, Policy Exchange, Property Week, Robert Jenrick, Rooftop development

Clive Betts MP leasehold mis-selling

CMA’s devastating report on leasehold mis-selling echoes the Communities Select Committee, says Clive Betts MP

March 10, 2020

Category: Cladding scandal, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Parliament, PressTag: Clive Betts MP, Ground rents

worst building safety scandal in history

‘Worst building safety scandal in modern history’

February 24, 2020

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, Press

cladding scandal vultures

‘Predatory investors’ prey on cladding sites that government advice made valueless

February 22, 2020

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, PressTag: Advice Notice 14, AN14, Cladding scandal, FT

The Times saturation coverage of cladding scandal

February 17, 2020

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, PressTag: Martina Lees, The Sunday Times, The Times, Waking watch contracts

Emma Lunn Help To Buy

Right-to-buy owners are also being ripped off by the leasehold system, The Guardian reports

February 10, 2020

Category: Latest News, Local authority leasehold, News, PressTag: Emma Lunn, Local authority leasehold, Major works, Michelle Baharier, Section 20, The Guardian

Paul Lewis MoneyBox

Law Commission lost its way with human rights for offshore hedge funds, says BBC’s Paul Lewis

January 29, 2020

Category: Latest News, Law Commission, News, PressTag: Law Commission, Paul Lewis

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