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Could freeholder Christopher Moran clean up big time by closing the brothels at Chelsea Cloisters?

November 25, 2018 By admin

Using a flat for “immoral purposes” can be grounds for forfeiture The Sunday Times today exposes a prime London site belonging to freeholder, insurance tycoon and Conservative Party donor Christopher Moran as being full prostitutes. Many have to sell their bodies 30 times a month before they can afford the rents of £3,000 a month […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, Press, Prostitutes Tagged With: Chelsea Cloisters, Christopher Moran, Prostitutes, The Sunday Times

Prostitutes breach leasehold covenants concerning ‘persons of immoral life’

September 20, 2013 By admin

 By Jan Middleton With regard to the article ‘Panic at prostitutes results in £912 sub-letting fee demand’ article, Leasehold Knowledge Partnership readers may be interested in my own experiences at my leasehold estate this week. Concerns were raised with the police by a number of residents/leasehold owners – including me – that there was prostitution […]

Filed Under: News, Prostitutes, Sub-letting Tagged With: Prostitutes

Panic at prostitutes results in £912 sub-letting fee demand

May 8, 2013 By admin

The extraordinary story of how leasehold owner Claire Jenkinson was presented with a subletting demand for £912 in sub-letting fees, after she sought to rent out her Kensington flat.   Troy Court, which recently won RTM, imposed the fee after a panic over prostitutes using the prestigious address at the entrance to Holland Park.   […]

Filed Under: Prostitutes, Slider Posts, Slider2, Sub-letting Tagged With: Blenheims, Julian Harper-Brown, OFT, Prostitutes, subletting, Troy Court

Troy Court £912 leasehold sub-letting fee cut by £400 thanks to LKP (with more to come?)

April 15, 2013 By admin

The Kensington leasehold resident who faced a demand for a ludicrous £912 sub-letting fee for renting out her flat has had the sum reduced by £360, after contacting Leasehold Knowledge Partnership. The property manager Blenheims has conceded that Claire Jenkinson should not have been invoiced £360 (inc VAT) for the freeholder’s undefined legal expenses. It […]

Filed Under: News, Prostitutes, Sub-letting Tagged With: Ashfords LLP, Blenheims, Julian Harper-Brown, Prostitutes, subletting, Taylor Wessing, Troy Court

£912 sub-letting fee demanded at Kensington’s Troy Court – after prostitutes moved in

April 8, 2013 By admin

Troy Court in Kensington High Street – one of the most desirable addresses in the country – has been so plagued by unwelcome tenants, including prostitutes, that it is making flat owners pay eye-watering sub-letting fees that in one case amount to £912, including VAT. Claire Jenkinson is so incensed by the “astronomical” demand passed […]

Filed Under: News, OFT / CMA, Prostitutes, Sub-letting Tagged With: Ashfords LLP, Blenheims, Julian Harper-Brown, OFT, Prostitutes, subletting, Taylor Wessing, Troy Court

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LKP submission to Housing Bill

Now is the time for all leaseholders seeking reform to put pressure on MPs to get leasehold addressed in the Housing Bill. Below is the extensive LKP submission to the committee stage of the Housing and Planning Bill 2015. It can be read here on Parliament’s website: LKP is calling for: 1/ An end to […]

We won’t protect leaseholders’ funds even after Van Houten’s theft because … that was the last government’s idea

The House of Lords was told today that key clauses in the legislation that would help protect leaseholders’ funds that are controlled by managing agents won’t come into force because this was the Labour government’s policy. This was the explanation from Baroness Hanham, Under-Secretary of State, Department for Communities and Local Government, why the key […]

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Ground rent scandals

The Sun attacks ‘fatcat’ housebuilders with inflated fortunes thanks to Help To Buy

Fatcat boss involved in leasehold scandal lives in one of his company’s newbuild homes A FATCAT boss involved in the leasehold scandal lives in one of his company’s newbuild homes. But he has avoided the rip-off ground rent fees that have ruined the lives of other homebuyers. Ted Ayres, chief executive of property giant Bellway, […]

MailOnline forensically examines Taylor Wimpey couple stuck in leasehold house with £590pa to Adriatic Land

MailOnline features a couple who bought a £150,000 house off Taylor Wimpey who were promised the freehold at ten times the £295 annual ground rent. But now the price has soared and Andrea, 35, and Roi Millward, 30, at Speakman Gardens, Prescot, Merseyside, cannot afford the freehold. Evidence provided by MailOnline indicates an error may […]

Bottomley tells BBC R4: Clear out sector stooges from LEASE. Stop barring LKP trustees. Bring justice quickly to leasehold house owners.

BBC R4 You & Yours link  Sir Peter Bottomley MP, patron of LKP, told the BBC today that the “scandal” of the Leasehold Advisory Service being packed with freeholder stooges needs to end. “The charity trustees of the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership should be regarded as qualified to be on the board of the government advisory […]

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Grenfell cladding

Leaseholders in local authority and housing association blocks will have Grenfell cladding bill paid by government

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (145263): Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department’s press release, Government announces it will fully fund unsafe cladding removal in social housing, published on 16 May […]

Taylor Wimpey has paid out only £11.2m of the supposed £130m to sort the doubling ground rent scam

… And £30 million to remove Grenfell cladding from the sites it built Taylor Wimpey has paid out only £11.2 million of the £130 million it set aside to address the doubling ground rent scam it inflicted on its customers between 2007 and 2011. During that period, the plc housebuilder dreamed up highly aggressive ground […]

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When leaseholders unite …

Recognised Tenants’ Association review – Part III

In this section, we look at the results of an experimental test of the RTA SI to see how it might work in practice. We then go on to draw conclusions from all three papers. A test of the RTA SI We have been able to use the leaseholders at the Charter Quay (CQ) site […]

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Disgraceful …

Affluent freehold-owning couple’s lease terms bring ruin to families who bought flats that are virtually worthless

  An affluent couple living in the idyllic Cotswold village of Lower Slaughter are funding their lives through leasehold property cleverness that is costing poorer property buyers thousands of pounds. Martin Paine and his wife Margaret Anne Kirmond are benefiting from the sale of flats at Blythe Court in Coleshill, Birmingham, which have a trap […]

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