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Event fees: Law Commissioner Stephen Lewis wants to hear from you

November 27, 2015 By admin

Just as George Osborne backs huge expansion of the wretched state of retirement housing provision in this country, up pops the Law Commissioner Stephen Lewis to point out one aspect that is very wrong with it: exit fees, or now called event fees. And he wants to hear your views on the subject before January […]

Filed Under: Latest News, Law Commission, News, Video Tagged With: Law Commision, Stephen Lewis

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

October 9, 2014 By admin

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 […]

Filed Under: Commonhold, Latest News, News, Peverel, Peverel Cirrus story so far, Sir Peter Bottomley, Video Tagged With: Benjamin Mire, Chartered Institute of Housing, Commonhold, Dennis Jackson, Federation of Private Residents Associations, forfeiture, LEASE, Master of the Rolls, Sir Peter Bottomley

George Osborne’s former nanny faces £100,000 bill and homelessness after refusing to pay major works on her leasehold ex-council flat

January 11, 2014 By admin

The issues in this case – and others concerning local authority leasehold – will be debated tomorrow morning on BBC Five Live with Eric Pickles,  Communities Secretary, and Sebastian O’Kelly, of LKP, at 11.30am, Sunday January 12    A disastrous act of defiance in refusing to pay her share of a council’s major works scheme […]

Filed Under: Forfeiture, Local authority leasehold, News, Tribunal triumphs ... and defeats, Video Tagged With: Farieda Chandoo, forfeiture, George Osborne, Southwark

Michelle Banks: silent over abuses, but ‘ARMA-Q will be good for leaseholders’

November 28, 2013 By admin

Michelle Banks, chief executive of the Association of Residential Managing Agents, gave an outline of the ARMA-Q initiative to leaseholders at the annual meeting of the Federation of Private Residents’ Association on November 12. ARMA-Q comes into effect in 2015 and has former Labour housing minister Keith Hill as its regulator. The idea is that […]

Filed Under: ARMA, ARMA-Q, News, Video

Judge Tim Powell explains First-Tier Tribunal … but leaseholders are not happy that justice is being done

November 27, 2013 By admin

Tim Powell, a former London solicitor and now a judge in the First-Tier Tribunal, addressed the annual meeting of the Federation of Private Residents’ Associations on November 12. His talk aimed at informing leaseholders of the changes that came into effect on July 1, replacing the old LVT. He was accused of being “disingenuous” by […]

Filed Under: Benjamin Mire, FPRA, LEASE, Leasehold Valuation Tribunal, LVT/Property Chamber Survival, News, Plantation Wharf, Sir Peter Bottomley, Video Tagged With: Federation of Private Residents Associations, FPRA, Julian Shersby, Tim Powell

Sir Peter Bottomley condemns criminal behaviour, price-fixing, cheating freeholders, exit fee fiddles, opportunist lawyers and feeble judicial intervention

November 14, 2013 By admin

… in a speech that ALL leaseholders have been waiting to hear   Sir Peter Bottomley made the speech all leaseholder victims of the system were waiting for when he condemned the current practices in the flawed sector. Speaking at the annual meeting of the Federation of Private Residents’ Associations – which LKP urges all […]

Filed Under: Benjamin Mire, Forfeiture, FPRA, Israel Moskovitz, Justin Bates, News, Peverel, Sir Peter Bottomley, Tchenguiz, Video Tagged With: Benjamin Mire, Commonhold, Federation of Private Residents Associations, forfeiture, FPRA, Sir Peter Bottomley, Tchenguiz

Cabinet minister celebrates Charter Quay ‘independence day’ as it breaks free from ‘monstrous companies’: Tchenguiz and Peverel

July 13, 2013 By admin

YouTube videos Charter Quay: the epic trailer Charter Quay with Ed Davey MP, Energy Secretary, speech   The residents of Charter Quay in Kingston were in full celebration yesterday having bought out the Tchenguiz interests at the site and sent the controversial freeholder packing. A 30-strong choir sang uplifting songs extolling freedom, bunting with the […]

Filed Under: Charter Quay, News, Slider Posts, Slider2, Tchenguiz, Tribunal triumphs ... and defeats, Video Tagged With: Charter Quay, Vincent Tchenguiz

Video exposes the full horrors of leasehold

June 29, 2013 By admin

Film-maker and leasehold owner Renuka Wickramaratne has made a YouTube video on leasehold abuses. She deserves huge praise for having made the video, which features issues in her own block of four flats in Chelsea which was written about on LKP here It also features interviews with Sebastian O’Kelly, of LKP, and leaseholder Dennis Jackson, […]

Filed Under: News, Plantation Wharf, Press, Slider Posts, Video Tagged With: Alexander Bastin, Dennis Jackson, Plantation Wharf, Renuka Wickramatne, Sebastian O’Kelly

LKP: Start as we mean to go on …

June 28, 2013 By admin

Thea Gilmore’s Start As We Mean To Go On is the rallying call for the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership.  

Filed Under: News, Press, Video

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

By Harry Scoffin The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled against the way the Notting Hill Genesis housing associations is promoting the shared ownership of leasehold properties. It ruled that “home ownership starts with us” was over-stating a vulnerable tenancy arrangement, and the case was reported in The Daily Telegraph yesterday. Housing developer forced to scrap […]

London mayor Sadiq Khan launches leasehold advice portal and slams LEASE as ‘unfit for purpose’

London mayor Sadiq Khan has launched a new leasehold advice portal, and has condemned the taxpayer-funded Leasehold Advisory Service as “unfit for purpose”. He also backed “wholesale reform of leasehold, including a long-term shift toward alternative tenures such as commonhold”. Today’s statement from the mayor’s office reads: “Government funds the Leasehold Advisory Service (LEASE) – […]

Taxpayer subsidy via Help To Buy for leasehold houses to run until 2021, MPs told

By Harry Scoffin Leasehold houses are STILL being sold under the Help To Buy scheme and taxpayers’ subsidy for them will remain until 2021, the Communities Select Committee has been told. Only in 2021 do the existing Help To Buy procedures end. Oral evidence – MHCLG annual report and accounts 2018 – 21 Jan 2019 […]

Why is the Tory party not supporting real home ownership, asks Daily Telegraph

Britain’s feudal leasehold system is killing the dream of homeownership A landlord’s profit motive, however, will always clash with the occupier’s need to protect their investment. High service charges do not affect the landlord. They can “sweat” the asset, let the building become rundown, while padding service charges. Harry Scoffin, London leaseholder activist who works […]

Leaseholders and the sector react to Law Commission reforms to commonhold and right to manage

There is bound to be a contrast between successful professionals in the leasehold sector discussing reforms, and the reactions of more emotive leaseholders who see themselves as the victims of its injustices. Examples of both were evident on Tuesday at the Law Commission’s symposium at London University’s law faculty. Consultation on the proposals to reform […]

Neo Bankside leaseholders fail to stop Tate visitors snooping through their windows

Leaseholders at the upscale Neo Bankside beside Tate Modern on the south bank of the Thames have lost their battle for privacy against the art gallery. The Tate created a viewing gallery for the public so they could enjoy magnificent views across the river to St Pauls. Unfortunately for the residents, the viewing platform also […]

Taxpayer boost for offshore speculators as Help To Buy lands 17,000 home buyers in leasehold

The taxpayer subsidy for offshore speculators in residential freeholds has been revealed in the Daily Mail: it estimates that 17,000 leasehold properties have been bought through the Help To Buy scheme. Shadow Housing Secretary John Healey uncovered the official figures showing Help to Buy had been used to purchase 17,586 houses leasehold since 2013. Mr […]

Anti-leasehold petition gains 10,000 signatures in under a week

By Harry Scoffin Last Friday, the National Leasehold Campaign launched a petition calling for the abolition of the leasehold system. Leasehold is described as “a form of financial servitude where the leaseholder is forever compensating the freeholder for living on ‘their land’.” By the stroke of midnight last night, the petition had registered 10,000 signatures. […]

Scorn for housing minister’s evidence to Select Committee

Where does one start with Housing minister Heather Wheeler’s evidence to the Communities Select Committee? LKP described Mrs Wheeler’s evidence on BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours programme as “ill-informed”.  Of the ten or so MPs in the room, it was apparent that the housing minister knew the least about leasehold. At 13.30 below: You […]

Lawyers to Communities Select Committee: Stop ‘sticking plaster reforms’. End ‘draconian’ forfeiture. £10 ground rents a ‘mistake’. Make legal costs fair to leaseholders. Commonhold failed because developers make money out of leasehold …

The evidence provided to the Communities Select Committee by lawyers – and the Law Commissioner Professor Nicholas Hopkins – add up to devastating criticisms of the leasehold system. Three lawyers who have made their careers in the sector barely had a good word to say about leasehold law, when they came before the Select Committee […]

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

On January 29 Communities Secretary James Brokenshire met leaseholder groups to gauge opinions on the government’s reform of ground rents. Mr Brokenshire emphasised to the meeting that he had not moved from setting ground rents as low as zero, as pledged by his predecessor Sajid Javid. He also indicated that he did understand – as […]

LKP welcomes Law Commission work on right to manage

Press Release Embargoed: 00.01 January 28 2019 LKP warmly applauds the Law Commission’s proposals to reform right to manage, published today (press release below). Sebastian O’Kelly, director of the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership said: “For years commercialisers in the leasehold sector have run rings around this legislation, either thwarting leaseholders efforts to gain control of the […]

New LEASE chair declines to endorse peppercorn ground rents on BBC

And there will be no leaseholders on the board of LEASE The new chair of the controversial quango the Leasehold Advisory Service declined an invitation to endorse no-monetary value ground rents on BBC R4’s You and Yours today. Instead, Wanda Goldwag said only that contracts should be “fair”. Former Communities Secretary Sajid Javid undertook to […]

Law Commission seminars on commonhold and RTM launched

The Law Commission has just opened applications to attend a series of seminars for both leaseholders and those working in the sector to hear about their consultations on Commonhold and the Right to Manage. The seminars for the leaseholder events are 12th Feb in London, 16th Feb in Brighton, 18th Feb in Cardiff and 19th […]

UK Finance mortgage lenders doled out cash on dodgy leases, but don’t know how many now can’t sell

By Sebastian O’Kelly UK Finance, told MPs that the leasehold sector “works fairly well”, while drawing a veil on the doling out of loans to dodgy, doubling ground rent properties. Matthew Jupp, of UK Finance, formerly the Council of Mortgage Lenders, was speaking to the Communities Select Committee on January 14. But he could not […]

Theresa May also thinks that ‘building owners’ – freeholders – will pay for Grenfell cladding

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‘Fleecehold’ estate management contracts are the latest fiddle from taxpayer-subsidised house builders

Inflated “fleecehold” private estate management contracts came under scrutiny yesterday in the Commons yesterday, as exasperated MPs yet again waded-in to our tax-payer subsidised house builders. The debate was called by Helen Goodman, Labour MP for Bishop Aukland, (above) who described the proliferation of private estate income streams as “a scandal. There has clearly been mis-selling.” […]

Furious attack on government Grenfell cladding inaction in Commons

The government was under attack in the Commons today over its inactivity over Grenfell cladding in private blocks of flats. John Healey, Labour shadow housing secretary, made a powerful attack on Housing minister Kit Malthouse, asking “if the government cannot deal with this, what is it in office for?” Mr Malthouse said, “as a result […]

Grenfell cladding leaseholders despair of government doing anything ..

“For residents in private sector buildings identified as having this accelerant-type cladding we were often hopeful and encouraged by Government assurances from James Brokenshire and Kit Malthouse, that the cost will be met, not by leaseholders, but by the freeholder or developers.  In a statement regarding this issue, Brokenshire threatened that if they did not […]

LKP persuades government to allow commonhold tenure on Help To Buy

The government has back-tracked on the bar on Help To Buy for commonhold properties and will now allow purchases of this form of tenure, which prevails in the world outside England and Wales. For God’s sake! Now it emerges £8.3 billion Help To Buy scheme – that turned house builder executives into multi-millionaires – is […]

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