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

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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 […]

During the government consultation on new-build leasehold houses and onerous ground rent terms, we need to argue from a position of strength. That means LKP and the All Party Parliamentary Group, of which we are the secretariat, have the information.  Please fill in this survey CLICK HERE

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

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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 […]

During the government consultation on new-build leasehold houses and onerous ground rent terms, we need to argue from a position of strength. That means LKP and the All Party Parliamentary Group, of which we are the secretariat, have the information.  Please fill in this survey CLICK HERE

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

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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, […]

During the government consultation on new-build leasehold houses and onerous ground rent terms, we need to argue from a position of strength. That means LKP and the All Party Parliamentary Group, of which we are the secretariat, have the information.  Please fill in this survey CLICK HERE

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

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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 […]

During the government consultation on new-build leasehold houses and onerous ground rent terms, we need to argue from a position of strength. That means LKP and the All Party Parliamentary Group, of which we are the secretariat, have the information.  Please fill in this survey CLICK HERE

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

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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 […]

During the government consultation on new-build leasehold houses and onerous ground rent terms, we need to argue from a position of strength. That means LKP and the All Party Parliamentary Group, of which we are the secretariat, have the information.  Please fill in this survey CLICK HERE

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

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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 […]

During the government consultation on new-build leasehold houses and onerous ground rent terms, we need to argue from a position of strength. That means LKP and the All Party Parliamentary Group, of which we are the secretariat, have the information.  Please fill in this survey CLICK HERE

Welcome to Spire View, our commonhold paradise …

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– 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 […]

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

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  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 […]

During the government consultation on new-build leasehold houses and onerous ground rent terms, we need to argue from a position of strength. That means LKP and the All Party Parliamentary Group, of which we are the secretariat, have the information.  Please fill in this survey CLICK HERE

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

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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, […]

During the government consultation on new-build leasehold houses and onerous ground rent terms, we need to argue from a position of strength. That means LKP and the All Party Parliamentary Group, of which we are the secretariat, have the information.  Please fill in this survey CLICK HERE

Telegraph reports that leasehold newbuild flats are on the rise

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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 […]

During the government consultation on new-build leasehold houses and onerous ground rent terms, we need to argue from a position of strength. That means LKP and the All Party Parliamentary Group, of which we are the secretariat, have the information.  Please fill in this survey CLICK HERE

Realities of leasehold spelled out during the Housing Bill

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– 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 […]

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Housing Bill omits necessary ‘changes to leasehold and commonhold’

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… 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 […]

During the government consultation on new-build leasehold houses and onerous ground rent terms, we need to argue from a position of strength. That means LKP and the All Party Parliamentary Group, of which we are the secretariat, have the information.  Please fill in this survey CLICK HEREDuring the government consultation on new-build leasehold houses and onerous ground rent terms, we need to argue from a position of strength. That means LKP and the All Party Parliamentary Group, of which we are the secretariat, have the information.  Please fill in this survey CLICK HERE

Council of Mortgage Lenders urged to help LKP end forfeiture

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Forfeiture and how to bring it to an end was the subject of a LKP meeting with the Council of Mortgage Lenders and the Building Societies Association in London this afternoon. LKP is trying to push the subject of forfeiture up the political agenda: for all leaseholder readers new to this site, forfeiture means you […]

During the government consultation on new-build leasehold houses and onerous ground rent terms, we need to argue from a position of strength. That means LKP and the All Party Parliamentary Group, of which we are the secretariat, have the information.  Please fill in this survey CLICK HERE

Less ‘legal torture’ and more happiness in leasehold, says Sir Peter Bottomley

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Sir Peter Bottomley made another strong speech over leasehold issues today at the Chartered Institute of Housing meeting in Crawley. It was titled “Less legal torture and more happiness in leasehold”. “All cases of forfeiture should be reported to the Master of the Rolls, who heads the civil courts,” said the MP, who along with […]

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