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Developers can now seize FREEHOLD homes, reports BBC R4 MoneyBox in shocking expose of ‘fleecehold’

November 26, 2019 By Admin3 Leave a Comment

By Harry Scoffin Tens of thousands of consumer homeowners face having their freehold houses taken off them by developers if they “fall more than 40 days behind” on estate management payments, an investigation by BBC Radio 4’s MoneyBox has found. MoneyBox reported on Saturday that the number of houses subject to restrictive ‘rentcharges’ and estate […]

Filed Under: Fleecehold, Latest News, News Tagged With: BBC R4 MoneyBox, Beth Rudolf, Fleecehold, Home Builders Federation, Paul Lewis

NLC conveyancing report on BBC R4 You and Yours today

September 20, 2019 By admin

A report on the conveyancing of rip-off leasehold properties, often with doubling ground rents and a host of management fees, featured on the influential BBC R4 You and Yours programme today. You and Yours – Book tax, Leasehold confusion, Sales of Insects for food – BBC Sounds Catch up on your favourite BBC radio show […]

Filed Under: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Press Tagged With: BBC R4 You and Yours, Beth Rudolf, Cath Williams

MailOnline forensically examines Taylor Wimpey couple stuck in leasehold house with £590pa to Adriatic Land

September 9, 2017 By admin

MailOnline features a couple who bought a £150,000 house off Taylor Wimpey who were promised the freehold at ten times the £295 annual ground rent. But now the price has soared and Andrea, 35, and Roi Millward, 30, at Speakman Gardens, Prescot, Merseyside, cannot afford the freehold. Evidence provided by MailOnline indicates an error may […]

Filed Under: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News Tagged With: Adriatic Land, Beth Rudolf, Conveyancing Association, HomeOwners Alliance, MailOnline, Speakman Gardens, Taylor Wimpey

Mortgage lenders and conveyancers lay bare the rot of leasehold to MPs

July 6, 2017 By admin

… and MPs says profiteering freeholders will be treated ‘like Philip Green’ … LKP patrons call for another Commons debate on leasehold Mortgage lenders and conveyancers yesterday told MPs in the All Party Parliamentary Group that leasehold is in desperate need of legislative reform. The cautious Council of Mortgage Lenders, now renamed UK Finance, spoke […]

Filed Under: APPG, APPG July 5 2017, Conveyancing Association, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Latest News, News, Parliament, Taylor Wimpey Tagged With: Beth Rudolf, Bob Bessell, Conveyancing Association, Council of Mortgage Lenders, Countryside Properties plc, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Joanne Darbyshire, Justin Madders MP, Marie Rimmer MP, Mortgage lenders, Nationwide, Robert Stevens, Sir Ed Davey, Sir Peter Bottomley, Taylor Wimpey

Leasehold needs to be reformed, BBC Money Box Live is told

April 21, 2017 By admin

This week saw a half-hour live discussion of leasehold issues on BBC R4 Money Box Live driven by mounting concerns over the leasehold houses scandal. The programme preamble, presented by Louise Cooper, pointed out that in the 1990s 22 per cent of all new builds were leasehold and the figure today is 43 per cent. […]

Filed Under: Conveyancing Association, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Press Tagged With: Andrew Bulmer, BBC R4 Money Box Live, Beth Rudolf, Conveyancing Association, HomeOwners Alliance, IRPM, Paula Higgins, Sebastian O’Kelly

Conveyancing Association’s Beth Rudolph attacks the HomeOwners Alliance for ‘scaremongering’ over leasehold

April 8, 2017 By admin

… after inviting ‘sympathy’ for solicitors who landed leasehold house buyers with onerous lease terms Beth Rudolph, the spokesman for the Conveyancing Association, has launched an astonishing attack on the HomeOwners’ Alliance for “scaremongering” over leasehold. The two organisations, which have co-operated in the past – along with LKP – have fallen out over the […]

Filed Under: Conveyancing Association, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News Tagged With: Beth Rudolf, Conveyancing Association, HomeOwners Alliance, Patrick Collinson, Paula Higgins, The Guardian

Questions from APPG attendees: Ground rent sale prices have risen tenfold since 2007

December 16, 2016 By admin

A number of key figures in leasehold were in the audience of the All Party Parliamentary Group and several asked questions. Ground rent sale prices have risen ten-fold since 2007 David Thomas, CEO of Barratt Developments In the North East and in the North West houses have traditionally been sold leasehold whether on the second […]

Filed Under: APPG December 14 2016, Conveyancing Association, MPs' APPG on leasehold Tagged With: Barratt, Beth Rudolf, Cherry Jones, Conveyancing Association, David Thomas, Leasehold Law, Leasehold Solutions, Louie Burns, Mari Knowles

Conveyancing Association snubbed over bid to make freeholders join a redress scheme

August 24, 2016 By admin

The Conveyancing Association, which is clear eyed to the many issues in leasehold particularly concerning complications and costs over sale, has had a set-back in attempting to make freeholders members of a redress scheme. The idea is excellent, and should be taken up by Labour housing spokesmen, not least because so many residential freeholds are […]

Filed Under: Conveyancing Association, Latest News, News Tagged With: Beth Rudolf, Conveyancing Association, Lord Bourne, Mehson Property Company Ltd –v- Pelligrino (2009), Proxima –v- McGhee (2014)

Leasehold sales are bedevilled with ‘extortionate’ charges and game-playing, says the Conveyancing Association

August 3, 2016 By admin

… Conveyancing Association calls for enforcement of reasonable fees, and it wants Land Registry to register ‘lease administrators’ who handle sales
… It claims there is ‘an imbalance of bargaining power between the lease administrator and the leaseholder’
… 34 per cent of estate agents say leasehold sales are a ‘nightmare’
… LKP tells the Financial Times’ FTAdvisor publication that freeholders routinely stuff sales as a cash-raising tactic
… Leasehold transactions across all UK regions have risen to 260,000 in 2015 up from 220,000 in 2011 (Source: Land Registry)
… Today 57% of all transactions in Greater London and 40% in the North West are for leasehold properties
Sales of flats are routinely seen as an opportunity to squeeze ‘extortionate’ amounts of cash out of leaseholders by freeholders, says the Conveyancing Association.
Consumers are inadequately protected as lease administrators handling sales for freeholders are not required to be part of an ombudsman scheme or come under the jurisdiction of the First Tier Tribunal of the property chamber.

Filed Under: Conveyancing Association, Latest News, News, Press, Slider2 Tagged With: Beth Rudolf, Conveyancing Association, Financial Times, FTAdvisor

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20 MPs and Lords sign up for All-Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and commonhold

Just before Easter it was decided to form an All-Party Parliamentary Group on residential leasehold and commonhold. It is proposed that the chairmen will be jointly Sir Peter Bottomley and Jim Fitzpatrick, both patrons of LKP, and LKP will provide the secretariat. So far 20 MPs and Lords have signed up to join the group, […]

Leasehold houses to be banned and future ground rents set to zero, announces Sajid Javid

LKP would like to acknowledge the considerable role that has has been played by the political officials in helping bring about these changes, in particular Nick King and Louisa Darian The embargoed statement, which was not sent to LKP by DCLG civil servants, will be published at 00.01 hours on December 21. The timing is […]

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Nationwide bans mortgages on doubling ground rent properties

The Nationwide building society – which is one of the top three mortgage providers in the UK – announced today that it will not lend on properties with doubling ground rent. “Unreasonable multipliers such as doubling every five, ten or fifteen years not allowed. Escalation should instead be linked to a verified index, such as […]

Esther McVey hints at new era of friendly cross-party consensus in Commons debate

By Harry Scoffin Speaking to MPs in Westminster Hall last month, housing minister Esther McVey said leasehold and commonhold reform “is something that all colleagues want to get right” and declared that “abuses will not be accepted by any of us”. Ms McVey began her remarks by lavishing praise on APPG co-chair Sir Peter Bottomley […]

STOP Selling new build leasehold houses demands Leader of the House of Commons

In the House of Commons today one of the latest members of the leasehold reform APPG spoke passionately about the scandal of leasehold houses. MP for South West Bedfordshire, Andrew Selous, raised the unacceptable practice of large developers buying freehold land on which they then sell houses on a leasehold basis.  This is currently taking […]

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New Capital Quay cladding may cost £7-10m, while NHBC sends in experts – and libel warning to BBC

The misery of the leaseholders at New Capital Quay featured on the BBCR4 You and Yours programme after the APPG on April 6. It emerges that Galliard estimates the cost removing the cladding at the 1,00 flat site at £7-10 million (plus the fire marshals). The warranty provider the NHBC, which employed celebrity libel lawyers […]

Cladding forum for private leasehold blocks – 18th July

LKP is organising the first forum for leaseholders in private blocks with ACM cladding. The event will take place in Parliament on the 18th July  from 6pm to 8pm. As well as hearing from the speakers the meeting will allow leaseholders from different sites with cladding problems and share theier experiences. It will also provide […]

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Why has it taken so long to regulate the leasehold sector?

For over a decade successive Housing Ministers and Secretaries of State have been assured by civil servants that leasehold legislation was balanced, and that self-regulation in the leasehold sector was working well. That position abruptly ended earlier this year when Secretary of State Sajid Javid announced that the government now intended to crack down on […]

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‘If I fail to offend anyone, I will do it next time,’ Bottomley tells appalled LEASE annual conference

Leasehold sector insiders were aghast at the address given by Sir Peter Bottomley on Wednesday at the Leasehold Advisory Service “annual conference”. The event was packed with surveyors, valuers, lawyers and property managing agents paying £350 a head to attend what has until now been the most important trade show of the sector. Earlier housing […]

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