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Latest News

L&Q rip-off ground rents

Housing association L&Q abandons rip-off doubling ground rents after CMA prodding

Category: Housing associations, Latest News, NewsTag: Housing associations, L&Q, Lucie Gutfreund

John Christodoulou fails to dump £355,000 gym debt onto the Canary Riverside leaseholders. Insurance commissions to be disclosed. And judge criticises his ‘extremely unattractive’ approach to tribunal

Category: John Christodoulou, Latest News, NewsTag: Alan Coates, Canary Riverside, Canary Riverside Estate Management Limited, CMA, Daniel Dovar, FCA, First-tier Tribunal, Insurance, John Christodoulou, Jonathan Upton, Judge Martin Rodger QC, Justin Bates, Octagon Overseas Limited, Parkgate Aspen, Philip Rainey QC, Property tribunal, Reich, Sol Unsdorfer, Upper-tier Tribunal, West India Quay, Yianis Group

Ted Baillieu: Your misconceived Twitter thread over the ‘polluter pays’ amendment should be removed

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’

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

Homehold

Are you overpaying for your lease extension?

Category: Informal lease extension, Latest News, NewsTag: Homehold, Lease extension, Linz Darlington

The Building Safety Bill: what do the government’s amendments mean for leaseholders?

Category: Cladding scandal, HomeSlider, Latest News, Liam Spender, News, ParliamentTag: Building Safety Bill

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

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

Sucking a lemon, the Leasehold Advisory Service notes the ground rent Act – which it did absolutely nothing to assist

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, LEASE, NewsTag: Anthony Essien, LEASE, Leasehold Advisory Service, Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill, Wanda Goldwag

Not waiting for Gove: Kelly Tolhurst MP urges freeholder Israel Moskovitz to halt court action against leaseholders over £2m cladding and building safety costs

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

James Walton, ABI

Gove calls on complacent FCA to stop the leasehold insurance rip-offs, and urges the CMA to get stuck in as well

Category: Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: Association of British Insurers, CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, FCA, Insurance, Insurance scams, James Dalton, Lord Newby, Michael Gove, Rabina Khan, Sarah Olney MP

Morello Quarter

Morello Quarter leaseholders stall ruinous cost of waking watch, but how useful is court decision for others?

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Essex Fire and Rescue Service, Liam Spender, Morello Quarter, Waking watch

As new ground rents ban gets Queen’s assent, LKP urges leaseholders to echo calls to action in its submission to government consultation on the next reforms …

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: 25% rule, Canary Riverside, Harry Scoffin, Law Commission, Lord Greenhalgh, Lord Randolph Churchill, Lord Young of Cookham, Michael Gove, Mixed-use sites, West India Quay

Building Safety Bill

The Building Safety Bill: what’s next and what can leaseholders do?

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, Liam Spender, News, Parliament, Rooftop developmentTag: Building Safety Bill, Liam Spender, Lord Greenhalgh, Michael Gove, Permitted development, Rooftop development

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

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Irene Dorner, Joanne Darbyshire, Peter Redfern

leasehold energy bills

Russian tanks on the move …. but already flat owners face 500% energy bill increases with no price cap protection – all because blocks are commercial buildings. For the freeholders’ convenience, of course

Category: Ballymore, John Christodoulou, Latest News, News, West India QuayTag: Ballymore, Charrington Tower, Communal Energy Partners, Embassy Gardens, Harry Scoffin, John Christodoulou, Kate Osamor MP, New Providence Wharf, Ofgem, Pan Peninsula, West India Quay, Yianis Group

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?)

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, Taylor WimpeyTag: Cladding scandal, Sir Peter Bottomley, Taylor Wimpey

Professor Susan Bright

Making the polluter pay

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: Building Safety Bill, Michael Gove, Polluter Pays, Professor Susan Bright

Richard Davidoff

Property tribunal tightens up how it appoints section 24 court-appointed managers after the Richard Davidoff debacle

Category: Latest News, News, Property tribunal, Richard DavidoffTag: Mark Reed, Property tribunal, Richard Davidoff, Section 24 manager

Norges Bank Investment Management

Gove backs cladding leaseholders in urging investor Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) to make UK housebuilders pay for build defects

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Lucy Brown-Cortes, Michael Gove, Norges Bank Investment Management, Sir Peter Bottomley

Settlers Court: for the first time the Supreme Court considers right to manage. The result? Leaseholders get a battering over communal area management

Category: Latest News, News, Property tribunalTag: Amanda Gourlay, ARMA, FirstPort, Harry Scoffin, Justin Bates, Kimberley Ziya, Landmark Chambers, Mark Loveday, Nigel Glen, Settlers Court, Simon Allison, Virginia Quay

Time for leaseholders in mixed-use sites to take control

Category: Charter Quay, Latest News, NewsTag: 25% rule, Canary Riverside, Charter Quay, Commonhold, Harry Scoffin, John Christodoulou, Law Commission, Lord Greenhalgh, Lord Young of Cookham, Martin Boyd, Mixed-use sites, Shared ownership, Sir Ed Davey, West India Quay, Yianis Group

Taylor Wimpey CMA

Reverse ferret: Taylor Wimpey NOW agrees to sort out re-sale buyers of its rip-off ground rent leasehold properties

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

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

IRPM Ricahrd Davidoff

Richard Davidoff of ABC Estates expelled from IRPM

Category: IRPM, Latest News, News, Richard DavidoffTag: ABC Estates, IRPM, Richard Davidoff

Two ex-employees of ABC Estates fail to stop Richard Davidoff defamation action over critical Google reviews with fake names (and ‘face £36,000 costs so far’)

Category: Latest News, News, Richard DavidoffTag: ABC Estates, ARMA, IRPM, Richard Davidoff

Vicky Pollard property tribunal: yes, but … no, but … Yes, you have been ripped off over insurance. But no, we can’t do anything about it

Category: Insurance, Latest News, News, Property tribunal, Richard DavidoffTag: 2 Trevor Close, Cadogan Estate, Dennis Reed & Co., Dependable Investments Limited, Eagle Star, FCA, Financial Ombudsman, First-tier Tribunal, Harry Scoffin, Insurance, Insurance scams, Jeremy Peachey, Judge JR Morris, Judge Naomi Hawkes, Judge Timothy Powell, Lord Leigh of Hurley, Mr M Cairns MCIEH, Neil Solanki, Nilesh Solanki, Pier Management, Property tribunal, Realty, Regis Group, Richard Davidoff, Siobhan McGrath, Trevor Leigh, Zurich

Sir Keith Lindblom

Well, can Sir Keith Lindblom do anything about Richard Davidoff’s continuing role as an officer of the property tribunal?

Category: Latest News, News, Parliament, Property tribunal, Richard Davidoff, RTM, Sir Peter BottomleyTag: Richard Davidoff, Siobhan McGrath, 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

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

Mike Amesbury Matthew Pennycook

Shadow housing brief passes from Mike Amesbury to Matthew Pennycook

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Matthew Pennycook MP, Mike Amesbury MP

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

Category: Ground rent scandal, JB Leitch, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: JB Leitch, Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill

Hackitt and Knight back dumping unregulated sector-insider ‘building safety managers’ onto leaseholders at £60,000 a year, MPs told

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

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

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

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

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