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News

If freeholders can’t pay to remediate ‘their’ buildings, they should lose the freeholds and the income streams that come with them

If freeholders can’t pay to remediate ‘their’ buildings, they should lose the freeholds and the income streams that come with them

More than 20,000 leaseholders benefit from CMA action over ground rent mis-selling

More than 20,000 leaseholders benefit from CMA action over ground rent mis-selling

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?

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
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 …

Latest

Bungling operations manager and directors at retirement site Dibleys Heritage signed £66,000 a year energy deal incorrectly – and have cost leaseholders £40,000 in legal fees

March 16, 2023

Category: Latest News, News, RetirementTag: Charles Knapper, David Johnston MP, Dibleys Heritage, RWK Goodman, Section 20

Building Safety Bill

Galliard and Lendlease were quick to get leaseholders on the hook for building safety bills, now they won’t sign Michael Gove’s agreement to pay up

March 15, 2023

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Abbey Developments, Avant, Ballymore, Dandara, Emerson Group (Jones Homes), Galliard, Inland Homes, Lendlease, London Square, Michael Gove, Rydon Homes, Telford Homes

FirstPort blows a fuse: Why are energy subsidies absent from the £265,784 electricity bills – an increase of 154% – at St David’s Square, tribunal is asked

March 15, 2023

Category: FirstPort, Latest News, News, Property tribunalTag: Energy Bill Relief Scheme, FirstPort, JB Leitch, Judge Vance, Kully Sahdra, Liam Spender, Miriam Seifert, St David's Square

Property rip-off ‘Whack-a-mole’: Now it’s your chance to tell CMA about fleecehold

March 13, 2023

Category: Fleecehold, Latest News, NewsTag: Andy Carter MP, CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, Fleecehold, Greenbelt Group Limited, Justin Madders MP, Professor Susan Bright, Steinbeck Grange, Welsh Government

You could not make it up: Estates and Management faces strike-off over late accounts!

March 6, 2023

Category: Latest News, News, TchenguizTag: Estates and Management, JB Leitch, Vincent Tchenguiz

Lee Rowley

Dismal picture of leasehold emerges from MPs’ debate. But no government commitment on reforms

March 1, 2023

Category: Fleecehold, Justin Madders MP, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: ABC Estates, Andy Carter MP, Apsana Begum MP, Barry Gardiner MP, Competition and Markets Authority, Financial Conduct Authority, FirstPort, Fleecehold, Florence Eshalomi MP, Hallmark Premier Estates, Justin Madders MP, Lee Rowley MP, Matthew Pennycook, Matthew Pennycook MP, Mike Amesbury MP, Munira Wilson MP, Nigel Wilkins, Sir Peter Bottomley, Steinbeck Grange, Stephen McPartland MP

Barry Gardner

MPs briefing: Stop trying to reform leasehold. Just bring it to an end, and join the rest of the world

February 27, 2023

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Justin Madders MP

New Estate Management thrown out of Property Ombudsman for not paying £1,000 award

February 10, 2023

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: Adam New, IRPM, New Estate Management, The Property Ombudsman

Deadline today for freeholders to declare offshore beneficial ownership

January 31, 2023

Category: Latest News, News, William Waldorf AstorTag: Abacus Land, Abacus Land 4 Limited, Armalytix, Heysmoor Heights, Long Harbour, Mike Ward, Putin, Register of Overseas Entities

Mr Spender goes to war over St David’s Square service charges … and landlord caves in over more than £100,000 buildings insurance commissions on eve of tribunal

January 30, 2023

Category: FirstPort, JB Leitch, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Berkeley, Countryside Contracts, FirstPort, FIT Nominee 2 Limited, FIT Nominee Limited, JB Leitch, Liam Spender, NatWest Group plc, RBS, St David's Square

Michael Gove’s admission today that regulation failures in part caused Grenfell clears path to final resolution of the building safety crisis

January 29, 2023

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, PressTag: Cladding scandal, Dame Judith Hackitt, Dean Buckner, Grenfell cladding, Health and Safety Executive, Lakanal House, Liam Spender, Lucy Brown-Cortes, Michael Gove, Ronnie King OBE, Sir David Amess, The Sunday Times, Welsh Government

After seven efforts at reform – with more on the way – Sections 21 and 22 of Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 are still flawed service charge protections

January 26, 2023

Category: APPG, Latest News, News, Property tribunalTag: Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, Rawdon Crozier, Sections 21 and 22

Why not impose a revived Florrie’s Law cap on council major works rather than see leaseholders made homeless?

January 25, 2023

Category: Latest News, Local authority leasehold, News, PressTag: BBC, Florrie's law, Islington, Local authority leasehold, The Guardian, Thurrock

Spare a thought for the forgotten Welsh building safety cladding victims

January 18, 2023

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Welsh Cladiators, Welsh Government

John Christodoulou ‘lamentable’ lack of transparency over excessive £1.6m insurance costs at Canary Riverside

January 6, 2023

Category: Canary Riverside, Insurance, John Christodoulou, Latest News, NewsTag: Angie Jezard, Canary Riverside, Canary Riverside Estate Management Limited, Financial Conduct Authority, Financial Times, John Christodoulou, Justin Bates, Reich, Westminster Management Services, Yianis Group

Railpen: We don’t want to invest in ground rents anymore because ‘there is a consumer on the far end’

January 4, 2023

Category: Latest News, News

£100k major works bills wipe out council leaseholders. But why are 40% of Right To Buy homes now owned by investors?

December 22, 2022

Category: Latest News, Local authority leasehold, News, PressTag: Local authority leasehold, Right to Buy, Tom Copley

At last a housing minister who seems to want to reform leasehold, and knows legal costs are being gamed to keep freeholders on top

December 15, 2022

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Lord Greenhalgh, Lucy Frazer MP, Michael Gove, Sir Peter Bottomley

Metropolitan housing association MTVH tells MPs: we won’t collect ground rent, we have ditched marriage value and all leases are 990 years (where possible)

December 15, 2022

Category: Latest News, News, Parliament, Shared ownershipTag: Metropolitan and Thames Valley Housing, Sue Phillips

Another buy-to-let leaseholder landlord faces ruin over building safety costs

December 14, 2022

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Buy-to-let, Michael Gove

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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

RMC / RTM directors threaten mass resignation if ‘building safety directors’ are imposed

December 9, 2022

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Baz Jafar, Giles Grover, Jim Illingworth, Martin Boyd

As the tide turns on UK property, any sympathy for this baby boomer investor: ‘I own three cladding flats and two other investment properties. I am considering bankruptcy …’

December 8, 2022

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News

Greg Clark MP

No ‘backsliding’ on Gove’s £3bn building safety levy, says his successor Greg Clark

July 14, 2022

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Greg Clark MP, Home Builders Federation

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, Harry Scoffin, 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

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

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, Harry Scoffin, 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, Harry Scoffin, Housing and Communities Select Committee, Lord Young of Cookham, Michael Gove, NHBC, PAS 9980, Reform Party, Richard Tice

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

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, Harry Scoffin, 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

Michael Gove cladding

In Gove we trust, but developers can pay cash

January 11, 2022

Category: Cladding scandal, News, ParliamentTag: British Research Establishment, Daisy Cooper MP, Justin Madders MP, Kevin Hollinrake MP, Michael Gove, 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, Harry Scoffin, 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, Harry Scoffin, 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

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Ground rent scandal

When inflation linked ground rents are worse than ten-year doubling ones. That would be now …

September 12, 2022

Category: Bellway, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, National Leasehold Campaign, News, Shared ownership, Taylor Wimpey, William Waldorf AstorTag: Bellway Homes, Ground rents, Home Ground Management Limited, Long Harbour, Melissa York, Taylor Wimpey, The Sunday Times

Steinbeck Grange

Barratt off the hook from CMA over mis-selling leasehold homes

August 18, 2022

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

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

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, JB Leitch, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: JB Leitch, 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, Harry Scoffin, 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

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