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Who are Dublin-based Boardwalk Finance DAC and Jetty Finance DAC? Why do they own freeholds to people’s homes? And why are they based abroad?

July 8, 2017 By admin

Who are Dublin-based Boardwalk Finance DAC and Jetty Finance DAC? Why do they own freeholds to people’s homes? And why are they based abroad? Boardwalk Finance DAC and Jetty Finance DAC, which share the same offices in Dublin, emerge as large scale owners of UK residential freeholds, according to the Guardian today. Jetty Finance DAC […]

The Sun demands end to ground-rent rip-offs

April 8, 2017 By admin

The Sun has launched a campaign today to “end the leasehold stranglehold”. In an emphatic article money editor Daniel Jones demands: An end to leasehold houses apart from exceptional cases (such as the developer does not own the land) Compensation for those affected, either from conveyancing solicitors or the developers. An independent task force, set […]

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Taylor Wimpey abandons the leasehold houses racket from January 1

Taylor Wimpey has undertaken to cease building revenue generating leasehold houses from January 1. The announcement comes in a letter to LKP MP patrons Jim Fitzpatrick and Sir Peter Bottomley, and was made before the All Party Parliamentary Group meeting last Wednesday. Taylor Wimpey says that it sold leasehold houses in the North West, a […]

‘I don’t see why houses are sold leasehold,’ says prime minister. Is this the final nail?

Today in the House of Commons Prime Minister Theresa May added her voice to the many others behind LKP’s campaign to stop the sale of new build leasehold houses. In Prime Ministers Question MP Andrew Selous asked about the practice of developers buying freehold land and selling on leasehold houses which he explained resulted in […]

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Ground rent strike ‘a very real possibility,’ reports Daily Telegraph

Please fill in survey on leasehold house scandal and onerous ground rents for presentation at All Party Parliamentary Group meeting, March 22 The Daily Telegraph ran a powerful article by journalist Emma Lunn on the leasehold houses scandal on Saturday airing the possibility of a nationwide “ground rent strike”. The notion was aired by Sebastian O’Kelly, […]

Bloor Homes, which builds leasehold houses, gives £400,000 to the Conservative Party

John Bloor, the founder of Bloor Homes, has donated £400,000 to the Conservative Party, even though his company builds leasehold houses that have been criticised by Theresa May. Mr Bloor’s donation, made through his company JS Bloor (Services) Limited, was received on May 3. The news coincides with LKP asking Bloor Homes, and Redrow and […]

Why are leasehold house owners mobilising while flat owners suffer in silence?

Around 50 leasehold stakeholders and seven parliamentarians attended the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold reform on Wednesday evening. The parliamentary turnout was lower than expected, owing to the election. Sebastian O’Kelly, trustee of the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership, was the first speaker, welcoming owners of leasehold houses from the North West making their second […]

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Government to ask Will Astor: who is the offshore freeholder at Heysmoor Heights (where ordinary families face £18k Grenfell cladding bills)?

The government said yesterday that it was going to haul in the agents for the Guernsey-based freeholders of Heysmoor Heights in Liverpool, which has Grenfell cladding, and demand to know who the freeholders are. LKP has highlighted the issue of Heysmoor Heights several times. Yesterday it was raised in the Commons by local Labour MP […]

Brokenshire wrongly says freeholders have paid for Grenfell cladding removal

Communities Secretary James Brokenshire told the Commons yesterday that freeholders had paid up to remove Grenfell cladding from private blocks. He was replying to a parliamentary question from Hilary Benn concerning astronomic Grenfell cladding costs at Saxton and Skyline Apartments in his Leeds constituency. Mr Brokenshire should understand that the developers who have paid up […]

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Officials fail to stop LKP publishing legal opinions on flawed reform of Recognised Tenants’ Associations (RTAs)

A last minute attempt to stop LKP from publishing three legal opinions extremely critical of the government’s bungled reform to Recognised Tenants’ Associations failed last week. The government introduced a statutory instrument in October that has actually made the position of leaseholders worse. The failing was referenced in the Commons by Sir Peter Bottomley with […]

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Martin Paine sells on Blythe Court, where ground rents reach £8,000 a year

Martin Paine and his wife Anne Kirmond have spent years as landlord causing distress to the leaseholds at Blythe Court and many other sites. LKP first broke the story of the Panie’s ground rent exploits in January 2016 despite warning letters from solicitors Taylor Emmet LLP. https://www.leaseholdknowledge.com/martin-paine Since this story, we have covered the activities […]

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