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You are here: Home / Latest News / Surge in new-build leasehold houses with £1.9 billion sold last year

Surge in new-build leasehold houses with £1.9 billion sold last year

November 4, 2016 //  by Sebastian O'Kelly

 

YearNew leasehold houses Total value of new leasehold housesMost expensive new leasehold house
2016 to date3,149£775 million£3.3 million
20158,775£1,97 billion£4.35 million
20146,286£1.38 billion£13 million
20135,033£1.01 billion£13.1 million
20123893£774 million£5.75 million
20113484£664 million£2.6 million
20103420£616 million£1.2 million

(Not to be reproduced without acknowledgement of the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership)

 

landregistrylkpLast year new build leasehold houses worth £1.9 billion were sold in England and Wales, according to data on the Land Registry.

Since 2010 the number of new-build leasehold houses has doubled, while the total value of new-build leasehold houses has trebled.

So far this year 3,149 new-build leasehold houses have been sold and recorded on the Land Registry.

In total they amount to £775 million of property.

As the Land Registry can take several months to record a new transaction, the 2016 data is incomplete. It should not be assumed that 2016 sales will be lower than 2015.

LKP notes that there are a small number of errors in the Land Registry records where leasehold flats are recorded as houses, and vice versa. We do not believe the net impact of these errors has a significant impact on the totals given.

So far, the most expensive of the new-build leasehold houses sold in 2016 has been in Hammersmith for £3.3 million. The cheapest new-build leasehold house is priced at £45,000 in Guilden Sutton in Chester.

The new-build leasehold houses stretch right across the country, from Penrith (Persimmon, again) down to the Isle of Wight.

Several areas of Wales are affected, with a reintroduction of new leasehold houses on a scale not seen since mine owners began building tied accommodation in the Valleys.

A disproportionate amount seems to be in the North West, and in poorer areas.

There are numerous advantages for developers to sell houses on leasehold tenancies, not least the continuing revenue streams.

Developers may also sell leasehold houses at what they consider to be a discounted price, as they can then sell on the freehold to investors. This may explain the significant number of new leasehold houses being sold in less affluent areas.

However, there are also smatterings of new leasehold house sales in the affluent South East and South West.

There is a heavy concentration in Thurrock, where Persimmon has again been active selling its Village scheme at Aveley, and at Peterborough, where leasehold houses first sparked national controversy.

LKP was contacted by a potential Persimmon customer of a new leasehold house this afternoon.

Our advice is: 1/ Offer to buy the property with the freehold title or walk away; 2/ Never buy any property with solicitors recommended by developers, as there is an obvious conflict of interest.

The purchaser today faced £250pa ground rents plus £100 service charges on a £250,00o house.

Click the link below for the complete list of new-build leasehold houses recorded on the Land Registry this year.

leaseholdhouseslandregdata2016

Related posts:

Leasehold houses have been sold for more than freehold ones, reports Telegraph Last year: £64.8bn leasehold properties sold. £13.7bn was new-build. Leasehold house numbers double. Developers make £300-500 million a year from ground rent sales ITV News says 45,000 leasehold houses sold in last five years. LKP claims £300-500m new home freeholds sold every year Persimmon sleazePersimmon sold leasehold houses for £50,000 more than same-size freehold houses at Harrow View West ONS trumpets collapse in sales of new-build leasehold houses

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, PersimmonTag: Land Registry, Leasehold houses, Persimmon

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