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Retirement

Bungling operations manager and directors at retirement site Dibleys Heritage signed £66,000 a year energy deal incorrectly – and have cost leaseholders £40,000 in legal fees

Category: Latest News, News, RetirementTag: Charles Knapper, David Johnston MP, Dibleys Heritage, RWK Goodman, Section 20

Platinum Skies

Retirement housebuilder Platinum Skies breached shared ownership rules with onerous ‘staircasing’ charges in the lease

Category: Latest News, News, Retirement, Shared ownershipTag: Andrew Ellson, ARCO, Bruce Moore, Conor Burns MP, Housing 21, John Beesley, Liam Spender, Lord Fink, Michael Voges, Platinum Skies, Sebastian O’Kelly, Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP, Sir Peter Bottomley, The Times

Rosleand Parc Retirement Village

Pensioner loses £130,000 to escape Roseland Parc Retirement Village. But it is worth it, she says …

Category: Latest News, News, RetirementTag: AXA, Retirement villages

Cestrian Court

Pensioners in retirement housing face £150,000 fire safety bill, but McCarthy and Stone isn’t reponsible (nor is FirstPort, and NHBC hasn’t responded)

Category: Latest News, News, RetirementTag: Cestrian Court, Cladding scandal, FirstPort, McCarthy and Stone, NHBC

Rip-off retirement leasehold fees give Corrie’s Ken Barlow a feast of plot lines. Let’s hope he leads a right to manage rebellion …

Category: Latest News, News, RetirementTag: Communities Select Committee, Coronation Street, Harry Scoffin, Ken Barlow, Lord Best, Permission fees, Retirement, Retirement villages

Corrie’s Ken Barlow warned against buying ‘red flags’ leasehold flat on upmarket retirement site

Category: Latest News, News, RetirementTag: Coronation Street, exit fees, Harry Scoffin, Ken Barlow, Retirement, Retirement villages, This Morning

Retirement housebuilders will only reform when they are forced to do so, Lord Best tells property conference

Category: Latest News, News, RetirementTag: Better Retirement Housing, Harry Scoffin, Lord Best, McCarthy and Stone, Retirement, The Guardian, The Times

The Times Spread

The Times reports that families ‘lost £3 billion’ on resale of leasehold retirement flats, while developers and freehold speculators made millions

Category: HomeSlider, Latest News, News, Press, RetirementTag: Churchill Retirement Living, Clinton McCarthy, Clive Fenton, John McCarthy, John Tonkiss, McCarthy and Stone, Spencer McCarthy, Tchenguiz Family Trust, The Times, Vincent Tchenguiz, William Waldorf Astor

Guardian reports dismal retirement flat re-sale prices, as seller ponders £28,000 offer

Category: Latest News, News, Retirement

Government will cave in to retirement house builders over ground rents, says Times

Category: Latest News, News, Press, RetirementTag: Churchill Retirement Living, Legal and General, McCarthy and Stone

Still hope for zero ground rents, says Brokenshire. Please end them for retirement too, says LKP

Category: Latest News, News, Parliament, Philip Rainey QC, RetirementTag: James Brokenshire MP

Falling property prices expose pension exposure to equity release, warns LKP trustee

Category: Latest News, News, RetirementTag: Bank of England, Dean Buckner, Legal and General, Private Eye, Prudential Regulation Authority, Sir John Kingman

Your Housing Group shared equity retirement flat sells for £39,129.26, after three years on the market

Category: Latest News, News, Retirement, SublettingTag: Heyeswood Retirement Village, Retirement, Your Housing Group

Family outraged by £50,000 exit fee on sale at Retirement Villages’ Mayford Grange

Category: Latest News, News, Press, RetirementTag: ARCO, Mayford Grange, Retirement villages

Rectory Court slashes service charges after dumping Stonewater for right to manage LKP accredited managing agent

Category: Housing associations, Latest News, News, RetirementTag: Barbara Farmer, Cherry Jones, Rectory Court, Stonewater

Did government cop-out on retirement ground rents stuff new thinking in the sector?

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, McCarthy and Stone, News, Press, RetirementTag: Ground rent, John Tonkiss, McCarthy and Stone, Retirement

Ground rents to be allowed in retirement housing, says government

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

Retirement sector thought it would prompt leasehold reform, but leasehold houses and double ground rents were even worse …

Category: ARHM, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, RetirementTag: ARHM

APPG July 11: Robust debate over retirement ground rents and event fees

Category: APPG, APPG July 11 2018, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, McCarthy and Stone, News, Parliament, RetirementTag: ARCO, Churchill Retirement Living, Clive Fenton, McCarthy and Stone, Michael Voges, Retirement

APPG July 11: Retirement event fees ‘align interests of buyers and operators’, Michael Voges tells meeting

Category: APPG, APPG July 11 2018, Latest News, News, Parliament, RetirementTag: ARCO, Association of Retirement Community Operators, Ground rents, Michael Voges

Retirement housebuilders and speculators plead to be allowed ground rents in the Evening Standard

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Press, Retirement, William Waldorf AstorTag: Churchill Retirement Living, Donagh O'Sullivan, Evening Standard, Galliard, Long Harbour, McCarthy and Stone, Richard Silva, Spencer McCarthy, Stephen Conway, Will Astor

Anti-ground rent trade body ARCO snubbed at retirement housing conference … (along with us, less surprisingly)

Category: Latest News, McCarthy and Stone, News, RetirementTag: ARCO, Churchill Retirement Living, Housing LIN Enterprises Limited, Housing LIN Limited, Jeremy Porteus, McCarthy and Stone, Michael Voges, Shakespeare Martineau

Please exempt retirement housebuilders from ground rent ban, pleads Sir Desmond Swayne

Category: Latest News, McCarthy and Stone, News, Parliament, RetirementTag: Churchill Retirement Living, Ground rents, McCarthy and Stone, Retirement, Sir Desmond Swayne MP

McCarthy and Stone: Ground rents are not the future of retirement housing

Category: Ground rent scandal, HomeSlider, Latest News, News, Press, RetirementTag: McCarthy and Stone, Retirement

FirstPort Retirement is allowed into ARMA

Category: FirstPort, Latest News, News, Peverel Cirrus story so far, RetirementTag: ARMA, Cirrus, FirstPort, Peverel Retirement, Retirement

Sebastian O’Kelly addresses retirement property managers. Were you lynched? No, they agreed: leasehold ‘granny flats’ have no future

Category: ARHM, Latest News, News, RetirementTag: ARHM, Bob Bessell, Elim Court, Margaret Court, Retirement, Sebastian O’Kelly, Strand Court

BetterRetirementHousing.com reports retirement resale disasters. On BBCR4 MoneyBox today

Category: HomeSlider, Latest News, McCarthy and Stone, News, Press, RetirementTag: BBC R4 MoneyBox, Burlington Court Bridlington, Chestnut Court Bridlington, McCarthy and Stone, Retirement

Pensioners hammered with 88% rise in ground rents, says Better Retirement Housing

Category: Latest News, News, RetirementTag: Better Retirement Housing, Churchill Retirement Living, Ground rent, McCarthy and Stone, Retirement

My granny’s Audley Retirement home ‘was a money pit’ costing £48,000 in exit fees

Category: Latest News, News, Press, RetirementTag: Audley Retirement, Retirement, The Sunday Times

Housing minister urges transparency over retirement exit fees

Category: Latest News, News, RetirementTag: exit fees, Gavin Barwell, Retirement

Right to manage woes at Elim and Regent Courts retirement sites

Category: Commons Debate 20/12/16, Moskovitz / Gurvits, News, Retirement, RTMTag: Elim Court, Israel Moskovitz, Joseph Gurvits, Oliver Colvile, Regent Court, Retirement

The Times: ‘Exit fees and poor resale values: the uncomfortable truth about retirement homes’

Category: Latest News, News, Press, RetirementTag: Audley Retirement, Churchill Retirement Living, McCarthy and Stone, Pegasus, Retirement, Retirement Security Limited, Retirement villages

Campaign against Residential Leasehold Exploitation reveals abysmal retirement housing re-sale values

Category: Commons Debate 20/12/16, Latest News, News, RetirementTag: Anchor, Anchor Trust, Audley Retirement, McCarthy and Stone, Pegasus, Retirement, Retirement Security Limited, Retirement villages

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