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You are here: Home / Latest News / 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)

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)

December 15, 2022 //  by Sebastian O'Kelly

The Metropolitan and Thames Valley Housing Association is not collecting ground rents, or ratcheting up marriage values on shorter leases and all lease extensions will be 990 years where it owns the freeholds.

These undertakings were made clear by Tim Millns, MTVH’s director of central customer services, to MPs at the All-Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and commonhold reform on December 12.

Metropolitan has 58,000 homes under management including more than 9,000 shared owners – one of the highest proportions in the country and 7,800 leasehold and freehold property owners.

“When we looked at the dissatisfactions and issues affecting leaseholders they came back to the issues of ground rents, lease extensions and the confusions around the length of the lease,” said Mr Millns.

A new model lease has been adopted which means that all Metropolitan leases should – where possible – be 990 years long and have a peppercorn, that is zero, ground rent.

Sue Phillips, of Shared Ownership Resources poses a question on length of Metropolitan’s headleases to executive Tim Milnns

However, 25% of its sites are governed by headleases, typically 250 years, and flats in those properties will have to be sold with lease length no longer than the headlease.

“When we do a lease extension for shared owners we will cap that premium at the percentage of the share that they own,” said Mr Milnns. “In addition to that, we also do release extensions at 990 years for our existing leaseholders.”

But there would still be “two-tiered service” at sites where Metropolitan is not the freeholder.

Questions were raised about the housing association’s “fiduciary duty” to maximise revenues. But Mr Milnns replied that metropolitan would gain from the additional value embedded in shared leases which it would recoup at sale.

He added: “Since we’ve made this offer, we’ve seen a 40 per cent increase in the number of lease extensions that have been done.

“A model lease of 990 years was going to come out anyway, so do you sit tight and wait, or do you want to address some of those problems that that exist within that portfolio?”

Mr Milnns estimated the lost marriage value to Metropolitan at around £230,000.

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  1. Michael Hollands

    December 15, 2022 at 6:31 pm

    It’s good to hear confirmation from Tim MILLNS that Ground Rents are abolished, it took some chasing but they have done the right thing. We now need a legally binding confirmation letter so it stays that way for the next 990 years. If the clause remains in the Lease what would happen if MTVH sold out to Firstport. At present MTVH seem reluctant to supply a legal document.
    Was Ground Rent the only item under discussion at the APPG, exit fees are a concern on our Retirement complex. . 0.25% of the selling price for every year of occupation up to 5% max is more than average.
    Also with regards to the terms of the Lease MTVH do need to honour their responsibilities..
    Like Maintaining communal areas, conforming to all safety regulations and most of all getting their Finance Dept up to scratch, it has been in an abysmal state for years.

  2. fred green

    December 22, 2022 at 1:11 pm

    might be good for those who win lottery of social housing but the rest of us…..

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