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Leasehold needs to stop being a means to produce ‘ever-increasing profits’, says Conveyancing Association

August 24, 2017 By admin

Leasehold needs to stop being a means to produce ‘ever-increasing profits’, says Conveyancing Association

The Conveyancing Association says it is going to deliver a “full and frank” response to Sajid Javid’s consultation on the leasehold sector. “It’s clear that we want to move away from leasehold being used purely as a motive to generate income, and produce ever-increasing profits for whoever might own the freehold,” writes Eddie Goldsmith, the […]

Filed Under: Commonhold, Latest News, News Tagged With: Commonhold, Conveyancing Association, Eddie Goldsmith

LKP guidance for responding to the government consultation on tackling unfair practices in the leasehold market

August 23, 2017 By Admin2

This article offers some tips on responding to the government consultation on “tackling unfair practices in the leasehold market”. It gives you links to some of the documents you might want to read and gives an explanation of some of the questions asked in the consultation as well as highlighting some of the issues you […]

Filed Under: Commonhold, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News

Urban Owners finds 41% of leaseholders have not had lease terms explained by solicitors

August 17, 2017 By admin

Urban Owners finds 41% of leaseholders have not had lease terms explained by solicitors

Less than 2% worried about about ground rents when buying a flat Less than 5% have a good understanding of commonhold, but … … APPG on September 11 is to consider the ground rent scandal, the government response to it … and the need for commonhold to replace leasehold The LKP-accredited management company Urban Owners […]

Filed Under: Commonhold, Latest News, News Tagged With: Commonhold, Steve Wylie, Urban Owners

Commons Library’s excellent resume of leasehold problems will give MPs plenty of ideas for reform

August 12, 2017 By admin

Commons Library’s excellent resume of leasehold problems will give MPs plenty of ideas for reform

The Commons library has done a superb job of spelling out the problems of leasehold. It is the first time we have seen a third party report into this sector with no regard to the  disingenuous interventions from self-interested professionals, trade bodies, dubious “stakeholders” or compromised quangos. Its report, published yesterday and written by Wendy […]

Filed Under: APPG, Commonhold, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Parliament Tagged With: APPG, Commons Library, Hart Brown

Spire View, in Pickering, shows a commonhold future with no leases at all, says Sunday Times

July 30, 2017 By admin

Spire View, in Pickering, shows a commonhold future with no leases at all, says Sunday Times

Just before Sajid Javid’s ban on leasehold houses and pledge to reduce ground rents to “as low as zero”, commonhold tenure – on the statute book since 2002 – has raced back onto the housing agenda. The issue is now up for consultation. The Sunday Times today reports how Spire View in Pickering, North Yorkshire, […]

Filed Under: Commonhold, Latest News, News, Press, Slider2 Tagged With: Commonhold, Gavin Barwell, Pickering, RBS, Sajid Javid, Spire View

Time to ‘get political about leasehold’, says the Financial Times

May 5, 2017 By admin

Time to ‘get political about leasehold’, says the Financial Times

The Financial Times today produces an important article urging reform to protect leasehold property owners. Now is the “perfect time for the political parties to grasp the deadly nettle of leasehold property”, says Lindsay Cook, who wrote a brilliant article on leasehold in July. Leasehold is a feudal, wasting asset with opportunities for exploitation, says […]

Filed Under: Commonhold, Latest News, News, Press, Taylor Wimpey Tagged With: Financial Times, Lindsay Cooke

Philip Rainey QC: Reform of the law is a duty (and for landlord and tenant law it is overdue)

November 12, 2016 By admin

Philip Rainey QC: Reform of the law is a duty (and for landlord and tenant law it is overdue)

In an address to the ARMA conference last week, Philip Rainey QC (right) did nothing less than urge the whole-scale reform of landlord and tenant law that has provided him with a comfortable living. Although prefaced with the lawyerly proviso – “it should not be assumed that I agree with all or any of the […]

Filed Under: ARMA, Commonhold, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Slider2 Tagged With: ARMA, Commonhold, Philip Rainey, Right of first refusal, Scotland, strata, Tanfield Chambers, Wales

CML: Will mortgage lenders lend on commonhold? No. Yes. Maybe … er

November 2, 2016 By admin

CML: Will mortgage lenders lend on commonhold? No. Yes. Maybe … er

Council of Mortgage Lenders, CML, lists banks lending on commonhold title. Commonhold tenure was introduced in 2002 as a welcome alternative to leasehold but there was very little take up. Given the lucrative racket involved in selling freeholds, with its ground rent and other dubious incomes, developers were never going to give up voluntarily a […]

Filed Under: Commonhold, Latest News, News Tagged With: CML, Council of Mortgage Lenders, Spire View, Tony Pidgley

Welcome to Spire View, our commonhold paradise …

August 25, 2016 By admin

Welcome to Spire View, our commonhold paradise …

– 15 commonhold properties in Pickering, North Yorkshire, originally for over-55s – Built by New Zealand architect, who did not exploit the monetising possibilities of English leasehold law – Swimming pool, guest suite, communal gardens, orangerie communal boiler – Three still for sale. £2,000pa service charge (no extras) Spire View in the attractive market town of […]

Filed Under: Commonhold, Latest News, News, Slider2 Tagged With: David Ball, David Robinson, RBS, Spire View, Tele Real Trillium, West Register

Commonhold or leasehold, it still needs managing

July 12, 2016 By admin

Commonhold or leasehold, it still needs managing

The final paper presented last week at the LKP round table on commonhold came from Nigel Glen, the CEO of ARMA. Mr Glen confined himself to emphasising the need for leaseholders, or commonhold owners, who run their own blocks to be aware of the law and obligations of communal living. Mr Glen told the round […]

Filed Under: ARMA, Commonhold, Latest News, News, Parliament Tagged With: ARMA, Nigel Glen

For first time in 14 years, Westminster hears more of commonhold

July 11, 2016 By admin

For first time in 14 years, Westminster hears more of commonhold

  The Leasehold Knowledge Partnership held a roundtable meeting last week to address commonhold, the form of flat ownership that prevails in the rest of the world – and has failed to make any inroads into England and Wales. These are the only two countries in the world where flats are sold on long tenancies […]

Filed Under: Commonhold, Latest News, News, Parliament, Persimmon Tagged With: Alex Ellison, Damian Greenish, Dennis Jackson, Hazel Easthope, James Driscoll, James Wyatt, Jim Fitzpatrick, Kadian Kennelly, Martin Boyd, Nigel Glen, Rob Plumb, Roger Southam, Sebastian O’Kelly, Sir Peter Bottomley, strata

If you want to reform leasehold, this is how you could do it

February 12, 2016 By admin

If you want to reform leasehold, this is how you could do it

The paper below by Philip Rainey QC was presented to the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership’s all-party round-table meeting at Westminster on January 29 2015. It is a superb analysis of the defects of leasehold law, along with suggestions to reform them. Mr Rainey makes clear that these views are not necessarily wholly, or even in part, […]

Filed Under: Commonhold, Latest News, News, Parliament Tagged With: Philip Rainey

Telegraph reports that leasehold newbuild flats are on the rise

January 19, 2016 By admin

Telegraph reports that leasehold newbuild flats are on the rise

A good article in the Telegraph about leasehold newbuild flats being on the rise. They make up 43pc of all newbuild registrations with the Land Registry, compared with 22pc in 1996. While leasehold newbuild flats were up by roughly 10,000, leasehold houses also sharply increased: registrations of newbuild detached leasehold houses more than doubled in […]

Filed Under: Commonhold, Latest News, News, Persimmon, Press Tagged With: Persimmon, The Daily Telegraph

Realities of leasehold spelled out during the Housing Bill

January 13, 2016 By admin

Realities of leasehold spelled out during the Housing Bill

– Commons urged to back amendment to abolish leasehold by 2020 in favour of commonhold – Tchenguiz, Peverel and Cirrus get another Commons naming – McCarthy and Stone told to explain collapsed second-hand values of retirement flats – Leasehold Knowledge Partnership praised, and thanked for reasonably accurate figures for leasehold sector Labour MP and LKP […]

Filed Under: Commonhold, Latest News, News, Parliament Tagged With: Barry Gardiner MP, Jim Fitzpatrick, Sir Peter Bottomley

Housing Bill omits necessary ‘changes to leasehold and commonhold’

January 7, 2016 By admin

… and forfeiture needs changing, too Housing minister Brandon Lewis is facing trouble over his Housing Bill with Sir Peter Bottomley today telling the commons: “The Bill totally misses out the necessary changes to leasehold and commonhold. “Some years ago, the House passed a Bill to allow commonhold to come in. It has defects and […]

Filed Under: Commonhold, Forfeiture, Latest News, News, Parliament, Sir Peter Bottomley Tagged With: Brandon Lewis, Commonhold, forfeiture, Sir Peter Bottomley

Commonhold – How did it go so wrong?

October 31, 2015 By Admin2

Commonhold was meant to be a shiny new replacement for leasehold, where each flat owner in a block of flats or each house owner on an estate also owned a share of the company which owns the site. A new system supported by all the main political parties throughout the 1990’s. A system which was […]

Filed Under: Commonhold, DCLG, Latest News, News Tagged With: Commonhold, Housing Minister

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