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Bellway

Consumers fightened to speak out over housebuilders defects, says BBC

Consumers fightened to speak out over housebuilders defects, says BBC

Do NOT buy a new property with ground rents

Do NOT buy a new property with ground rents
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)

Latest

Should the buyer beware? Leaseholders and fire safety remediation costs

April 14, 2021

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Liam Spender

Liam Spender

Government’s use of extra-statutory powers has made the cladding crisis far worse than in Australia (or possibly Scotland), writes LKP trustee

April 7, 2021

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Advice Notice 14, Cladding scandal, Liam Spender, Oxford University

New Capital Quay

New Capital Quay Litigation continues, with concern that repairs may still not meet Building Regulations

April 3, 2021

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Galliard, Liam Spender, New Capital Quay, NHBC

Now Israel Moskovitz wins right to charge £30 for his ground rent demands …

April 2, 2021

Category: Israel Moskovitz, Latest News, Moskovitz / Gurvits, News, RTMTag: Avon Freeholds, Israel Moskovitz

BovisHomesGateway

Bovis Homes leaseholder in Bristol cannot sell as ground rents reviewed every five years

April 1, 2021

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Bovis Homes, CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, Gateway Property Management

Ted Baillieu, ex-pm of Victoria, tells London cladding leaseholders that Australians identified flats most at risk and sorted them out first (but there were loans to flat owners)

March 26, 2021

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Australia, Cladding scandal, Ted Baillieu, Victoria

shared owners

Now shared owners are hit with lease extension costs on top of fire safety costs

March 25, 2021

Category: Latest News, News, Shared ownershipTag: Inside Housing, Shared ownership

Chris Pincher

Bottomley leads Tory rebellion of 32 MPs, but government defeats amendment to Fire Safety Bill

March 22, 2021

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Christopher Pincher MP, Fire Safety Bill, Liam Spender, Royston Smith MP

CMA

CMA kicks housebuilders: Countryside Properties and Taylor Wimpey ‘unfair contract terms’ over rip-off ground rents; Persimmon and Barratt ‘possible mis-selling’ of homes

March 19, 2021

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Barratt, CMA, Countryside Properties plc, Persimmon, Robert Jenrick, Taylor Wimpey

Lord Greenhalgh

Lords rebellion sees government Fire Safety Bill thrown into disarray

March 17, 2021

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Bishop of St Albans, Lord Adonis, Lord Greenhalgh, Lord Lytton

Bishop of St Albans

APPG leasehold chairs call on Lords to support McPartland-Smith amendment tomorrow

March 16, 2021

Category: APPG, Latest News, NewsTag: APPG, Bishop of St Albans, Florence Eshalomi MP

Peter Cobrin

Section 24 court appointed manager orders can be the last resort for leaseholders, but beware messing them up

March 15, 2021

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: Peter Cobrin, Section 24 manager, The Grand Folkestone

Ballymore

Crisis in UK flats at last prompts Ballymore leaseholders to rebel and speak publicly about rocketing service charges to the FT

March 13, 2021

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: Sean Mulryan

Chris Pincher

Minister hears how cladding ‘interim measures’ are ruining a generation of homebuyers

March 10, 2021

Category: Insurance, Justin Madders MP, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Chris Pincher, Dame Margaret Hodge MP, Florence Eshalomi MP, Hilary Benn MP, Ian Byrne MP, Justin Madders MP, Lord Greenhalgh, Stephen McPartland MP

Liam Spender

Commons Select Committee hears just how little the government understands of the Building Safety Crisis and leasehold law

March 9, 2021

Category: Communities Select Committee, Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: Clive Betts MP, Liam Spender, Lord Greenhalgh, Richard Goodman DG building safety

Florence Eshalomi

Select Committee none the wiser over cladding forced loan schemes

March 8, 2021

Category: Communities Select Committee, Latest News, NewsTag: Bob Blackman MP, Clive Betts MP, Florence Eshalomi MP, Lord Greenhalgh, Richard Goodman DG building safety

Martin Boyd

Martin Boyd returns to LKP

March 8, 2021

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: Martin Boyd, Wanda Goldwag

Dudley Joiner

Dudley Joiner’s Team Property Management goes down the plughole owing £635,958

March 7, 2021

Category: Latest News, News, Right To Manage FederationTag: Dudley Joiner, Right To Manage Federation

Rosleand Parc Retirement Village

Pensioner loses £130,000 to escape Roseland Parc Retirement Village. But it is worth it, she says …

March 7, 2021

Category: Latest News, News, RetirementTag: AXA, Retirement villages

NHBC

NHBC controls up to 90% of new build warranties: law professors raise concerns …

March 6, 2021

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: NHBC, Professor James Davey, Professor Susan Bright

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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.

£5 billion

After nearly four years of indecision and then piecemeal measures – and still no help from freehold ‘building owners’ – government sets up a cladding removal fund. But …

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

Shared ownership

LKP cladding scandal survey

LKP backs Sadiq Khan demand that ALL shared ownership leases to be 999 years

January 22, 2021

Category: Latest News, News, Shared ownershipTag: Sadiq Khan, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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, 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

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