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Most ‘nakedly furious’ BBC documentary in years

Category: HomeSlider

Southwark council meets its leaseholders. Lambeth pays them off (and deploys NDAs)

Category: Latest News, Local authority leasehold, NewsTag: Ina Negoita, Lambeth Council, Martin Boyd, NDAs, Sebastian O’Kelly, Southwark Council

Platinum Skies: £63,000 loss on £130,000 shared ownership retirement flat after new owner died 25 days after moving in

Category: Latest News, News, Retirement, Shared ownershipTag: Affordable Housing and Healthcare Group, ARCO, Association of Retirement Community Operators, Homes England, Julian Shaffer, Law Commission, Lord Stanley Fink, National Housing Federation, Platinum Skies, Sebastian O’Kelly, Shared ownership

Shared ownership: Immensely complex; nothing shared when it comes to costs; clever ‘investors’ scent a revenue source to replace ground rents

Category: Latest News, News, Shared ownershipTag: BlackRock, Bovis Homes, Clive Betts MP, Communities Select Committee, Giles Mackay, Giles Peaker, Heylo, Homes England, Hometrack, Legal & General, McCarthy and Stone, Nicholas Charles Gould, Peter Edward Gould, Sage Housing, Shared ownership, Vistry

Park home owners demo against 10% sales commissions

Category: Latest News, News, Park Homes, Sir Peter BottomleyTag: Heather Wheeler MP, Park Home Owners Justice Campaign, Sebastian O’Kelly, Sir Peter Bottomley, Sonia McColl OBE

Churchill Retirement

Three quarters of Churchill Retirement flats have lost money when resold, says The Times

Category: HomeSlider, Latest News, News, PressTag: Churchill Retirement Living, Land Registry, McCarthy and Stone, Sebastian O’Kelly, The Times

Marriage Value: How your freeholder hitches a ride on the uplift of value on your flat

Category: Latest News, Lease Extension, NewsTag: Homehold, Linz Darlington, Marriage value

Odevo rivals FirstPort as largest managing agent after hoovering up rivals

Category: FirstPort, Latest News, NewsTag: HML Group, Odevo, Vegner Group

We all agree, yet we are still waiting for the leasehold reforms promised years ago, says Katie Kendrick

Category: APPG, Latest News, NewsTag: APPG, Justin Madders MP, Katie Kendrick, National Leasehold Campaign

APPG on shared ownership: L&Q wrong to hard sell ‘Black Friday’ knock-off flats to buyers. Urgent need for shared ownership re-sale data to be on Land Registry

Category: Latest News, News, Shared ownershipTag: Advertising Standards Authority, L&Q, Share Ownership Resources, Sue Phillips

Jack Spearman

We support leasehold reform but not abolishing it and leaseholders are served by ground rents, says the Residential Freehold Association

Category: APPG, Latest News, NewsTag: APPG, Jack Spearman, Residential Freehold Association, Simon Millar

Rachel Maclean MP

Housing Minister Rachel Maclean pledges to reform LEASE, calls out Churchill Retirement Living, pledges to end the ‘assured tenancy trap’ and reiterates commitments to reform leasehold

Category: APPG, Latest News, NewsTag: APPG, CMA, Ground rent, LEASE, Leasehold Advisory Service, Rachel Maclean MP

War of attrition: FirstPort appeals St David’s Square leaseholder victory (after telling leaseholders everyone would be sharing in the win)

Category: FirstPort, HomeSlider, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: ARC Time Freehold Income, Berkeley, Countryside Communications, Emeria, FirstPort, FIT Nominee Limited, Kully Sahdra, Liam Spender, NatWest Group plc, Simon Allison, St David's Square

FirstPort / E&J Estates face insurance challenge over ramping up rebuild costs

Category: Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: Brian white MBE, E&J Estates, FirstPort, Hollin Bank Court, Insurance

Abacus Land sees its ground rents more than double to £711, thanks to RPI

Category: Latest News, News, William Waldorf AstorTag: Abacus Land, Long Harbour, William Waldorf Astor

Sell-out run for ‘Fleecehold’, the play telling the story of the founders of the National Leasehold Campaign

Category: Latest News, Louie Burns, NewsTag: Cath Williams, Fleecehold, Joanne Darbyshire, Katie Kendrick, Louie Burns, Sebastian O’Kelly

Call for evidence on shared ownership, from the robust Communities Select Committee

Category: Latest News, News, Shared ownership

Your chance to say what you think about retirement housing before September 18

Category: Latest News, News, Retirement

Richard Davidoff

Libel lawyers for Richard Davidoff, of ABC Estates, fail to get Google to hand over online reviewers’ identities

Category: HomeSlider, Latest News, NewsTag: Mark Lewis, Mr Justice Nicklin, Richard Davidoff, William Bennett KC

What a surprise! Nigel Glen becomes the mouthpiece of freehold investors

Category: ARMA, FirstPort, IRPM, Latest News, NewsTag: Count Luca Rinaldo Contardo Padulli, Emeria, FirstPort, Nicholas Charles Gould, Nigel Glen, Peter Edward Gould, Regis Group plc, Residential Freehold Association, Vincent Tchenguiz, Wallace Estates

Devastating criticism of FCA for telling MPs it only knew of leasehold insurance fiddling ‘just prior’ to Michael Gove demanding a probe last year!

Category: Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: ARMA, Financial Conduct Authority, Insurance, Insurance Business, Leasehold Advisory Service

We need retirement ground rent gaming like a hole in the head, say retirement community operators

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: ARCO, Churchill Retirement Living, Michael Voges, Nick Sanderson, Spencer McCarthy

Court of Appeal backs rights of 200,000 shared ownership leaseholders after right to manage duel with Israel Moskovitz

Category: Latest News, News, Shared ownershipTag: Avon Freeholds, Israel Moskovitz, Mark Loveday, Shared ownership, Tanfield Chambers

What is the point of this government, asks Lisa Nandy as it wriggles over promised leasehold reforms

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Justin Madders MP, Lisa Nandy, Sir Peter Bottomley

Black Friday for FirstPort: ALL leaseholders at St David’s Square to share £479,000 service charge triumph. And £55,000 in energy subsidies to be paid up

Category: FirstPort, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Emeria, FirstPort, Kully Sahdra, Liam Spender, St David's Square

Net Zero is going to be difficult throughout the world … but with leasehold tenure, next to impossible

Category: APPG, Latest News, NewsTag: Condominiums, Evan McKenzie, Michael Teys, Net Zero, Ross Clark, Strata title

We just made it up: landlord pays back £120,000 for intercom costs at St David’s Square that it cannot account for (and is leased for eternity)

Category: FirstPort, JB Leitch, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Countryside Communications, First-tier Tribunal, FirstPort, FIT Nominee 2 Limited, FIT Nominee Limited, JB Leitch, Liam Spender, NatWest Group plc, St David's Square

Investors see gold in retirement housing, but oldies have taken a look and remain wary … Brighter developers are pushing for change

Category: APPG, Latest News, News, RetirementTag: ARCO, Ben Rosewall, Bob Bessell, Dan Healy, David Fothergill, Legal and General, Local Government Association, Melanie Gowers, Michael Voges, Pauline Jones, Retirement Security Limited, Sebastian O’Kelly

Dudley Joiner

Dudley Joiner, boss of the Right To Manage Federation, banned from being a company director – for the second time

Category: Latest News, News, Quadrangle House, Right To Manage Federation, RTMTag: Dudley Joiner, Quadrangle House, Right To Manage Federation

Leasehold reforms this parliamentary session, says minister

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Baroness Altmann, Baroness Scott of Bybrook, Lord Kennedy of Southwark, Lord Young of Cookham

Bottomley to raise with Churchill Retirement its decision to continue charging ground rents

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, RetirementTag: Churchill Retirement Living, Ground rents, Housing Today, React News, Spencer McCarthy

Lee Rowley

Don’t extend your lease if that puts you on the hook for building safety bills (this applies to non-highrises, too)

Category: Latest News, Lease Extension, NewsTag: ALEP, Building Safety Act, Enfranchisement, Lord Greenhalgh

FCA finds ‘significant shortcomings’ in leasehold insurance. While Michael Gove urges it to look further

Category: Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: Financial Conduct Authority, Michael Gove

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