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Sebastian O'Kelly

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

Category: Cladding scandal, HomeSlider, Latest News, News, NewsSliderTag: Baroness Kath Pinnock, Bishop of St Albans, Cladding scandal, Daisy Cooper MP, Ian Duncan Smith MP, Justin Madders MP, Lucy Powell MP, Mike Amesbury MP, Sadiq Khan, Sarah Jones MP, Sir Peter Bottomley, Stephen McPartland MP

Countryside Properties plc

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

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

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 …

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, Press

BBC2 Newsnight

BBC2 Newsnight special on corrosive leasehold and the building safety crisis … with no minister present at all

Category: Latest News, News, PressTag: BBC2 Newsnight, Liam Spender, Martin Boyd, Mick Platt, Sir Peter Bottomley

RichardDavidoff

Richard Davidoff, of ABC Estates, ‘breached his fiduciary duties’ after disastrous performance as a court-appointed manager, rules property tribunal

Category: Latest News, News, Property tribunal, Richard DavidoffTag: ABC Estates, ARMA, Court appointed manager, Lisa Velenski, Mark Reed, Richard Davidoff, Valens Contractors Limited

RICS dreams up another feeble ‘code of practice’, as Lord Best’s statutory regulator of property managers falls victim to Covid

Category: Latest News, News, RICSTag: ARMA, Baroness Hayter, Benjamin Mire, Dallas Banfield, IRPM, Lord Best, Property tribunal, RICS, Sally Keeble, The Times

EWS1 debacle

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

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

Leaseholders demo

https://www.leaseholdknowledge.com/30334-2/

Category: Latest News

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?

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

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

build safety summit

And so the building safety crisis lurches towards mass forfeitures …

Category: Latest News, News, PressTag: Cladding scandal, MHCLG, The Sunday Times

forfeiture

LKP reverses forfeiture of suicide’s flat securing family £40,000

Category: Forfeiture, Latest News, NewsTag: Forfeiture

CMA ground rents

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

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

Bottomley calls on Boris Johnson to hold fire safety funding summit

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Boris Johnson, Sir Peter Bottomley

SoniaMcCollOBEtheft

Inside job goons found guilty of stealing park home of Sonia McColl OBE

Category: Latest News, News, Park HomesTag: Park Home Owners Justice Campaign, Park homes, Sonia McColl OBE

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

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News

Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill

Analysis of where next with the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill

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

offshore freeholders

Freeholders and housebuilders have plucked the leasehold golden goose, and now the path is clear for commonhold

Category: Commonhold, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News

Lord Blencathra

House of Lords turns into the House of Serfs to attack the iniquity of leasehold ground rents

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Baroness Grender, Baroness Wheatcroft, Barratt, Ground rents, Lord Best, Lord Blencathra, Lord Greenhalgh, Lord Hammond, Lord Young of Cookham

Commonhold Council

Government announces Commonhold Council to prevent ‘hidden costs’ and ‘the egregious practices currently seen in some leaseholds’

Category: Commonhold, Latest News, News

Sonia McColl OBE

Trial for two accused of stealing the home of park homes campaigner Sonia McColl OBE

Category: APPG, Latest News, NewsTag: Darren Baseley, Sonia McColl OBE, Stewart Gregory

Enough is enough! Ballymore must pay!

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

If government’s is tempted to dither over banning new ground rents, then this woman’s £1m a year for a small flat should clinch it …

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, PressTag: Christine Patterson, Daily Mail, FBC Manby Bowlder, Ground rents, Mark Edward Adams, MEA Real Estate Limited, Osbornes Law

Biscop House

Scourge of RTMs, Israel Moskovitz sits as a director … of a residents’ management company in Sunderland

Category: Gurvits, Israel Moskovitz, Justin Bates, Latest News, News, RTMTag: Biscop House, Israel Moskovitz, Joseph Gurvits, Justin Bates

Rendall and Rittner … no insurance commissions, but it owns an offshore ‘captive’ insurance company making a 40% profit on leaseholders’ premiums

Category: Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: Artex Insurance (RR4) IC Limited, AXA, Duncan Rendall, FCA, Justin Madders MP, Matt Rittner, Rendall and Rittner, Sir Ed Davey, Sir Peter Bottomley

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

Bellway

Consumers fightened to speak out over housebuilders defects, says BBC

Category: Bellway, NewsTag: BBC R4 MoneyBox, Bellway Homes, Home Builders Federation

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

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

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