Shared ownership

Platinum Skies: £63,000 loss on £130,000 shared ownership retirement flat after new owner died 25 days after moving in

Shared ownership: Immensely complex; nothing shared when it comes to costs; clever ‘investors’ scent a revenue source to replace ground rents

APPG on shared ownership: L&Q wrong to hard sell ‘Black Friday’ knock-off flats to buyers. Urgent need for shared ownership re-sale data to be on Land Registry

Call for evidence on shared ownership, from the robust Communities Select Committee

Court of Appeal backs rights of 200,000 shared ownership leaseholders after right to manage duel with Israel Moskovitz

Metropolitan housing association MTVH tells MPs: we won’t collect ground rent, we have ditched marriage value and all leases are 990 years (where possible)

When inflation linked ground rents are worse than ten-year doubling ones. That would be now …

Nothing to do with us, says Poltair Homes CEO, over 80 blighted shared ownership houses in Cornwall

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

Now shared owners are hit with lease extension costs on top of fire safety costs

LKP backs Sadiq Khan demand that ALL shared ownership leases to be 999 years

Housing associations furious at government’s 10-year repair-free offer to new shared owners

A2 Dominion to dump 100% cladding costs on to 25% shared owners at City Wharf Hoxton

Shared ownership: a misnomer that can be worse than renting and worse than leasehold, says solicitor

Telegraph reports plummeting value of shared ownership flats

Brexit day prisoner: Polish father desperate to sell Notting Hill Genesis cladding flat to join ailing family back home

Housing association Network Homes seeks to dump some of its £200m cladding costs on leaseholders

Shared ‘ownership’ is NOT ownership. It’s the ‘pay-day loan’ of housing and most regret having bought, London Assembly told

Tory MP Stephen McPartland shames Long Harbour / Adriatic Land into dropping doubling ground rent leases

Advertising Standards Authority rules against Notting Hill Genesis on over-egged shared ownership adverts

Don’t buy leasehold, says Merryn Somerset Webb of Money Week, but …