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The Building Safety Bill: what do the government’s amendments mean for leaseholders?

The Building Safety Bill: what do the government’s amendments mean for leaseholders?
Michael Gove cladding

In Gove we trust, but developers can pay cash

In Gove we trust, but developers can pay cash

Sun shines on the leaseholders’ demo at Parliament: after Jenrick, is this a new dawn?

Sun shines on the leaseholders’ demo at Parliament: after Jenrick, is this a new dawn?

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

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ABC Estates

Richard Davidoff ex-employees apologise for libel, meanwhile fines against ABC Estates pile up

May 13, 2022

Category: Latest News, News, Richard DavidoffTag: ABC Estates, Mark Reed, Property Redress Scheme, Richard Davidoff, Valens Contractors Limited

Conservatives and RICS kicked back at insurance kickbacks in 2006. Unfortunately, they did nothing about it – and here we are

May 12, 2022

Category: Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: ARMA, Chainbow, Christos Lazari, Estates Gazette, FCA, Graham Chase, ICOBS, Lazari Investments Limited, Lord Barker of Battle, Lucy Barnard, Michael Gove, Peter Bill, Peter Rochford, Rendall and Rittner, RICS, Robert Bryant-Pearson, Roger Southam, Sir Terence Etherton, Tchenguiz Family Trust, Theresa Villiers MP, Vincent Tchenguiz

ABC Estates

Two former employees of ABC Estates ‘face £60,000 each in costs after libel claim, and must apologise in open court’

May 6, 2022

Category: Latest News, News, Richard DavidoffTag: ABC Estates, Norwich Pharmacal, Richard Davidoff, Sir Peter Bottomley

Poltair Homes

Nothing to do with us, says Poltair Homes CEO, over 80 blighted shared ownership houses in Cornwall

May 6, 2022

Category: Latest News, News, Shared ownershipTag: George Eustice MP, Michael Gove, Pentowan Gardens, Poltair Homes, Private Eye, Rockwell (FC100) Limited, Tchenguiz Family Trust, THF Limited

Note to Mr Gove: FSA was warning of ‘reputational risk’ in not cracking down on secret leasehold insurance commissions 17 years ago!

April 26, 2022

Category: Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: Andrea Coscelli, ARMA, Bob Blackman MP, Clive Briualt, CMA, FCA, Federation of Private Residents Associations, ICOBS, Insurance scams, Insurance Times, John McDonnell, John Prescott, LEASE, Leasehold Advisory Service, Lord Newby, Martin Boyd, Matt Brewis, Michael Gove, OFT, Rabina Khan, Sarah Olney MP, Sir Peter Bottomley

MPs join leaseholders at protest to ensure no one is left facing building safety cash calls

April 22, 2022

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Baroness Claire Fox of Buckley, Bob Blackman MP, Cath Williams, Cladding scandal, Clive Betts MP, Daisy Cooper MP, End Our Cladding Scandal, Flo Eshalomi MP, Hilary Benn MP, Iain Duncan Smith, Justin Madders MP, Katie Kendrick, Liam Spender, Marsha de Cordova MP, Matthew Pennycook, National Leasehold Campaign, Rabina Khan, Ritu Saha, Rushanara Ali MP, Sir Ed Davey, Sir Mike Penning, Sir Peter Bottomley, Stephen McPartland MP, Stuart Andrew, Ted Baillieu, UK Cladding Action Group, UKCAG

Lendlease

Michael Gove gets the cartel of taxpayer subsidised housebuilders to pay up £5bn towards the building safety scandal … but not Lendlease or Galliard

April 14, 2022

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Galliard, Home Builders Federation, Lendlease, Michael Gove

JB Leitch

Leasehold debt collector JB Leitch received £470,000 furlough, and paid out a £500,000 dividend to owners

April 13, 2022

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: Hastenhome Property, JB Leitch, Justin Madders MP, Stiles Developments Limited, Tiny Pig

Michael Gove: Is this the robust inquiry into leasehold insurance fiddles that you wanted from the FCA?

April 7, 2022

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, FCA, Financial Conduct Authority, Lord Newby, Rabina Khan, Sarah Olney MP, Sir Peter Bottomley

Platinum Skies

Retirement housebuilder Platinum Skies breached shared ownership rules with onerous ‘staircasing’ charges in the lease

April 7, 2022

Category: Latest News, News, RetirementTag: Andrew Ellson, ARCO, Bruce Moore, Conor Burns MP, Housing 21, John Beesley, Liam Spender, Lord Fink, Michael Voges, Platinum Skies, Sebastian O’Kelly, Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP, Sir Peter Bottomley, The Times

Building Safety Bill

Government dumps Dame Judith Hackitt’s ‘building safety managers’, but what do the latest amendments to the Building Safety Bill mean for leaseholders?

March 23, 2022

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Building Safety Bill, Dame Judith Hackitt, Liam Spender, Michael Gove

Insurance insiders call for an end to secretive leasehold insurance commissions following Canary Riverside ruling

March 22, 2022

Category: Canary Riverside, Insurance, John Christodoulou, Latest News, NewsTag: Branko, Branko Bjelobaba, Canary Riverside, Canary Riverside Estate Management Limited, CMA, Create Solutions, Dart Compliance, FCA, Insurance, Insurance Age, Insurance scams, Insurance Times, James Dart, John Christodoulou, Judge Amran Vance, Judge Timothy Powell, Michael Gove, Mike Cranny, Nick Symes, Nikhil Rathi, Octagon Overseas Limited, Reich, West India Quay, Yianis Group

CMA slaps down doubling ground rents of 15 punters who bought cheating freeholds from Countryside Properties plc

March 18, 2022

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Tchenguiz, William Waldorf AstorTag: Abacus Land, Adriatic Land, Brigante Properties, CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, Countryside Properties plc, Redrow, Vincent Tchenguiz, William Waldorf Astor

JB Leitch

Blunder forces Pier Management and debt collector JB Leitch to scrap £3,265 late ground rent bill (and forfeiture threat that accompanied it)

March 17, 2022

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Ground rents, JB Leitch, Nicholas Gould, Peter Edward Gould, Pier Management

Will government dump Dame Judith Hackitt’s £60,000 a year building safety managers job creation scheme?

March 17, 2022

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Baroness Claire Fox of Buckley, Baroness Kath Pinnock, Building Safety Bill, Building safety managers, Building safety reform, Dame Judith Hackitt, Liam Spender, Lord Best, Lord Greenhalgh, Lord Thurlow, Martin Boyd, Rabina Khan, Ritu Saha, Sir Ken Knight, UK Cladding Action Group, UKCAG

Leaseholders helped over building safety crisis is now a ‘bizarre lucky dip’, say MPs

March 15, 2022

Category: Cladding scandal, Communities Select Committee, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: ACM, Cladding insurance, Cladding scandal, Clive Betts MP, Communities Select Committee, Eric Pickles, EWS1, Florrie's law, Housing and Communities Select Committee, Lord Young of Cookham, Michael Gove, NHBC, PAS 9980, Reform Party, Richard Tice

Israel Moskovitz fails to get £30 each from leaseholders for his ground rent demands (as barrister Rebecca Cattermole, acting pro bono, sees off Justin Bates in the Upper Tribunal)

March 14, 2022

Category: Israel Moskovitz, Justin Bates, Latest News, Moskovitz / Gurvits, NewsTag: Avon Freeholds, Israel Moskovitz, Justin Bates, Rebecca Cattermole

L&Q rip-off ground rents

Housing association L&Q abandons rip-off doubling ground rents after CMA prodding

March 14, 2022

Category: Housing associations, Latest News, NewsTag: Housing associations, L&Q, Lucie Gutfreund

John Christodoulou fails to dump £355,000 gym debt onto the Canary Riverside leaseholders. Insurance commissions to be disclosed. And judge criticises his ‘extremely unattractive’ approach to tribunal

March 11, 2022

Category: John Christodoulou, Latest News, NewsTag: Alan Coates, Canary Riverside, Canary Riverside Estate Management Limited, CMA, Daniel Dovar, FCA, First-tier Tribunal, Insurance, John Christodoulou, Jonathan Upton, Judge Martin Rodger QC, Justin Bates, Octagon Overseas Limited, Parkgate Aspen, Philip Rainey QC, Property tribunal, Reich, Sol Unsdorfer, Upper-tier Tribunal, West India Quay, Yianis Group

Ted Baillieu: Your misconceived Twitter thread over the ‘polluter pays’ amendment should be removed

March 7, 2022

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Building Safety Bill, Daisy Cooper MP, Justin Madders MP, Polluter Pays, Sir Peter Bottomley, Ted Baillieu, Victoria

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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?

Building safety scandal

After cladding leaseholders issue damning report into housing associations’ response, housing minister Lord Greenhalgh lashes out at ‘sanctity of social housing providers that have built rubbish’

March 7, 2022

Category: Cladding scandal, Housing associations, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Catalyst, City Wharf Hoxton, Cladding scandal, Clarion, Housing associations, Initial repair period, Kwajo Tweneboa, L&Q, Lord Greenhalgh, Lord Young of Cookham, Shared ownership, Short leases, sub-letting, subletting

Fletcher Court

Hallmark Property Group seeks to put 44 flats worth £15m on top of a block with ACM cladding, waking watch, a B2 rating after EWS1 … and 75 utterly stressed out leaseholders

February 13, 2022

Category: Cladding scandal, E&J Capital Partners, Latest News, News, Sinclair Gardens Investments, William Waldorf AstorTag: Adriatic Land, Andrew Charles Bacon, Cladding scandal, Dr Matthew Offord MP, E&J Capital Partners, E&J Estates, Fairview New Homes, Fletcher Court, Hallmark Property Group Limited, Hutchison Whampoa, James Tuttiett, Li Ka-shing, Long Harbour, Paul Chevalier, Pulse Colindale, Sinclair Gardens, William Waldorf Astor

Not waiting for Gove: Kelly Tolhurst MP urges freeholder Israel Moskovitz to halt court action against leaseholders over £2m cladding and building safety costs

February 11, 2022

Category: Cladding scandal, Justin Bates, Latest News, Moskovitz / Gurvits, NewsTag: Ardmore Limited, Building safety fund, Cladding scandal, Israel Moskovitz, Joseph Gurvits, Kelly Tolhurst MP, Property tribunal, Triplerose, Y and Y Management

Morello Quarter

Morello Quarter leaseholders stall ruinous cost of waking watch, but how useful is court decision for others?

February 10, 2022

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Essex Fire and Rescue Service, Liam Spender, Morello Quarter, Waking watch

Building Safety Bill

The Building Safety Bill: what’s next and what can leaseholders do?

January 30, 2022

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, Liam Spender, News, Parliament, Rooftop developmentTag: Building Safety Bill, Liam Spender, Lord Greenhalgh, Michael Gove, Permitted development, Rooftop development

Taylor Wimpey cladding

Taylor Wimpey to pay fire safety works on sites built over past 20 years. (But what’s the catch, as with their tricksy doubling ground plan?)

January 26, 2022

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, Taylor WimpeyTag: Cladding scandal, Sir Peter Bottomley, Taylor Wimpey

Norges Bank Investment Management

Gove backs cladding leaseholders in urging investor Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) to make UK housebuilders pay for build defects

January 16, 2022

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Lucy Brown-Cortes, Michael Gove, Norges Bank Investment Management, Sir Peter Bottomley

Data tells us sprinklers work, waking watch doesn’t, and freehold punters aren’t picking up the tab, Martin Boyd tells ODI

December 10, 2021

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Cladding scandal, Dame Judith Hackitt, Martin Boyd, New Providence Wharf, NHBC, ODI, Open Data Institute, Sebastian O’Kelly, Sir Ken Knight, Sprinkler systems, Waking watch contracts

Hackitt and Knight back dumping unregulated sector-insider ‘building safety managers’ onto leaseholders at £60,000 a year, MPs told

December 2, 2021

Category: Cladding scandal, Communities Select Committee, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: ABC Estates, Building Safety Bill, Building safety fund, Building safety managers, Building safety reform, Building safety regulator, Clive Betts MP, Communities Select Committee, conveyancing, Dame Judith Hackitt, EWS1, Grenfell cladding, Health and Safety Executive, Lord Best, Melissa Lawford, Rachel Hopkins MP, Rendall and Rittner, Richard Davidoff, Robert Booth, RoPA, Sir Ken Knight, Sir Peter Bottomley, Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian, The Law Society

Dame Judith Hackitt

Dame Judith Hackitt says cladding leaseholders risk ruin with rip-off charges. She wants to help. But is still at sea over leasehold law …

September 9, 2021

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, Press

St David's Square

Fees come first for FirstPort: leaseholders billed at least £39,000 for applications to the Building Safety Fund … And so it begins

August 4, 2021

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Building safety fund, David Young, DriveTopCo, Equistone, FirstPort, Liam Spender, Neil O'Connor, Nigel Howell, Ouda Saleh, Paul Lester, St David's Square

EWS1 debacle

EWS1 on under 18m high buildings … is still an utter mess

August 4, 2021

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: BBC Newsnight, EWS1, Financial Times, Inside Housing, Robert Jenrick, The Daily Telegraph

Building Safety Bill

Curiouser and curiouser: the Building Safety Bill has Second Reading in the Commons

July 29, 2021

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Building Safety Bill, Liam Spender, Robert Jenrick

Division as London Assembly opposition urges Sadiq Khan to be tougher on housebuilders over cladding

July 3, 2021

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, London Assembly, NewsTag: Andrew Boff, Caroline Pidgeon, Cladding insurance, Conservative Party, Green Party, Hina Bokhari, LBC, Leonie Cooper, Liberal Democrats, London Assembly, London City Hall, London mayor, Natalie Carter, Planning reform, Sadiq Khan, Tom Copley, Tower Hamlets Justice for Leaseholders, Waking watch contracts

Tower Hamlets leaseholders find their voice, host free building safety conference with LKP on June 15

June 15, 2021

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: John Biggs, Liam Spender, Lucy Brown-Cortes, Martin Boyd, Natalie Carter, New Providence Wharf, Rabina Khan, Rushanara Ali MP, Sebastian O’Kelly, Thames Water, Tower Hamlets, Tower Hamlets Justice for Leaseholders, UKCAG, Unmesh Desai

Saturday 5 June: Cladding leaseholders to demonstrate outside sales suites of house builders

June 3, 2021

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News

Enough is enough! Ballymore must pay!

May 10, 2021

Category: Ballymore, Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Andrew Wood, Apsana Begum MP, Ballymore, John Biggs, New Providence Wharf, Rabina Khan, Tower Hamlets Justice for Leaseholders

LKP to monitor bank exposure as cladding flats sell to cash buyers in auctions

April 29, 2021

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Lucy Brown-Cortes

Fire Safety Bill clears Parliament. So, what’s next?

April 29, 2021

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, Liam Spender, News, ParliamentTag: Baroness Kath Pinnock, Barry Gardiner MP, Bob Blackman MP, Christopher Pincher MP, Daisy Cooper MP, EWS1, Fire Safety Bill, Hilary Benn MP, Liam Spender, Lord Adonis, Lord Greenhalgh, Lord Newby, Lord Roy Kennedy, Ruth Cadbury MP, Sarah Jones MP, Sir Peter Bottomley, Stephen Doughty MP, Tim Farron MP

Communities Select Committee calls on government to scrap cladding loan scheme and establish a ‘Comprehensive Building Safety Fund’

April 29, 2021

Category: Cladding scandal, Communities Select Committee, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Clive Betts MP, Communities Select Committee

See more cladding scandal

Ground rent scandal

Sucking a lemon, the Leasehold Advisory Service notes the ground rent Act – which it did absolutely nothing to assist

February 11, 2022

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, LEASE, NewsTag: Anthony Essien, LEASE, Leasehold Advisory Service, Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill, Wanda Goldwag

Open letter to Taylor Wimpey: If you cared about sorting out your ground rent mess, you can pay back the money your own ex-customers have wasted over this scandal

January 30, 2022

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Irene Dorner, Joanne Darbyshire, Peter Redfern

Taylor Wimpey CMA

Reverse ferret: Taylor Wimpey NOW agrees to sort out re-sale buyers of its rip-off ground rent leasehold properties

January 5, 2022

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Taylor WimpeyTag: CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, Ground rents, Taylor Wimpey

Taylor Wimpey ground rents

CMA forces Taylor Wimpey to sort out rip-off ten-year doubling ground rents

December 22, 2021

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, Ground rents, Taylor Wimpey

Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill

Time to tell MPs what you think about the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill – and why it must not be nobbled

December 3, 2021

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill

Sir Desmond Swayne

Few disagreements over banning ground rents, but last minute effort to keep them for retirement properties by Theresa Villiers and Sir Desmond Swayne

December 1, 2021

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Count Luca Rinaldo Contardo Padulli, Eddie Hughes MP, Justin Madders MP, Kevin Hollinrake MP, Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill, Lucy Powell MP, Mark Tami MP, Robert Jenrick, Sir Desmond Swayne MP, Tchenguiz Family Trust, Theresa Villiers MP, Wallace Partnership Group, William Waldorf Astor

Lobbying alert: Theresa Villiers MP speaks up for ground rents, freehold owners and making sure marriage value still pays off for freehold investors

November 26, 2021

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Christos Lazari, Eddie Hughes MP, Ground rents, Lazari Investments Limited, Lobbying, Marriage value, Monte Properties Limited, Theresa Villiers MP

Countryside Properties plc

CMA forces Countryside Properties plc to strike out doubling ground rents: it was selling them as late as May 2017!

September 15, 2021

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, Countryside Properties plc, Ground rents, Robert Jenrick

Blatant pro-landlord loophole left in the Ground Rent Bill. Is this the way leasehold ‘reforms’ will go?

July 20, 2021

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill, Lord Lytton

Justin Madders MP

Justin Madders MP asks why Redrow is selling freeholds at Ledsham Garden Village for £4,000 when they were £6,500. And what about those who paid too much?

July 5, 2021

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, RedrowTag: Cath Williams, CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, Joanne Darbyshire, Justin Madders MP, Katie Kendrick, Ledsham Garden Village, Redrow

Countryside Properties plc

National Leasehold Campaign email dump urges developers to settle up like Aviva and Persimmon have done with CMA

July 1, 2021

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, E&J Capital Partners, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Persimmon, Redrow, Taylor Wimpey, Tchenguiz, William Waldorf AstorTag: Aviva, Barratt, Bellway Homes, Bovis Homes, CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, Countryside Properties plc, Jason Honeyman, Persimmon, Pier Management

CMA ground rents

CMA forces Aviva to re-set rip-off doubling ground rents to what they were when homes were first bought …

June 23, 2021

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, Ground rents

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