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Rectory Court slashes service charges after dumping Stonewater for right to manage LKP accredited managing agent

December 5, 2018 By admin

Cherry Jones has managed to drastically reduce service charges using local contractors … The epic right to manage victory at Rectory Court – where Stonewater was given the boot and the new manager is LKP-accredited Cherry Jones of Swindon-based Home from Home – has made it to the national press. The leaseholders at the 44-flat […]

Filed Under: Housing associations, Latest News, News, Retirement Tagged With: Barbara Farmer, Cherry Jones, Rectory Court, Stonewater

Property manager who champions leaseholders resigns from Tory party over ‘watered down’ reforms

November 14, 2018 By admin

Cherry Jones, a Swindon property manager and champion of leaseholders, has resigned from the Conservative Party over the government back-tracking over leasehold reform. In correspondence to local Swindon MPs Robert Buckland, also the Solicitor-General, and Justin Tomlinson, she says: “I have resigned my conservative membership. I am embarrassed by the party I have supported all […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News Tagged With: Cherry Jones, Home from Home, Justin Tomlinson, Robert Buckland MP

Taylor Wimpey passed management at Surbiton Plaza II to commercial operator ‘to save customers the administrative burden’ (of being in charge of their own money)

December 5, 2017 By admin

UPDATE 11/12/17: This article has been updated with comments from the former and current owner of the management company (below). Taylor Wimpey customers at its Surbiton Plaza II site have been landed with an embedded management company in one of the sector’s Roger-Southam-style deals. And the leaseholders have also been shafted by Taylor Wimpey with […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, Taylor Wimpey Tagged With: Anthony Tokatly, Cherry Jones, Countrywide, Daren Touhey, James Jordan, Roger Southam, Rynew, Simon Wainwright, Taylor Wimpey

Now four in five homebuyers avoid new-builds … after ground rent scandals and shoddy build quality, that’s no surprise

August 25, 2017 By admin

Four in five avoid new build homes Inside Housing, news, analysis, and comment about the social housing sector in the UK. Research commissioned by bridging lender Market Financial Solutions (MFS) revealed that 81% of adults would rather live in an older home than a new build, Inside Housing reports. And 79% of those responding to […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, Press Tagged With: Bovis Homes, Cherry Jones, Inside Housing

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

DCLG told ‘incentive to remain an honest managing agent gets less with each passing year’

May 12, 2016 By admin

Civil servants meet property managers who work for leaseholders … which makes a change from trade bodies, compromised quango chairmen, housebuilders working the leasehold opportunities, big freehold interests (frequently owned offshore) and the terracotta army of professionals whose livelihood depends on English flat-ownership being absurdly complex and unbalanced Four senior managing agents met officials at […]

Filed Under: DCLG, Latest News, News, Parliament, Taylor Wimpey Tagged With: Alan Coates, ARMA, ARMA-Q, Cherry Jones, DCLG, HML Holdings, Home from Home, Rob Plumb, Steve Wylie, Urban Owners

Council’s section 106 is delaying the hand-over of residents’ management companies, Countrywide tells leaseholder in complaints ruling

December 6, 2014 By admin

Swindon leaseholder Andy Webb, who lives in Bovis-built site The Oaks, complained to Countrywide Estate Management about the delays in handing over control of the residents’ management company. He wished to attend an AGM and put himself forward as a director, and the complaint was “escalated” in July to Elaine M Evans, Countrywide’s “compliance & complaints […]

Filed Under: Countrywide Tagged With: Andy Webb, Cherry Jones, Countrywide, Countrywide Estate Management, Elaine M Evans, Swindon, The Oaks

MPs call for all-party group on leasehold, and to stop right to manage being thwarted

March 14, 2014 By admin

The Westminster meeting on Tuesday March 11 on right to manage organized by Leasehold Knowledge Partnership / Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation saw an all-party group on leasehold becoming more likely. The move would certainly be backed by Sir Peter Bottomley, Conservative Swindon MPs Justin Tomlinson and Robert Buckland, as well as Jim Fitzpatrick, Labour […]

Filed Under: Gurvits, IRPM, Israel Moskovitz, Justin Bates, Moskovitz / Gurvits, News, Parliament, RTM, Sir Peter Bottomley, Tchenguiz Tagged With: ARHM, ARMA, Baroness Gardner, Cherry Jones, Dudley Joiner, IRPM, Justin Tomlinson, Mark Field, Martin Boyd, Neil Maloney, Rob Plumb, Robert Buckland, Sebastian O’Kelly, Shula Rich, Sir Peter Bottomley, Y and Y Management

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Communities Select Committee lifts the lid on the residential freehold racket

By Sebastian O’Kelly On Monday (November 19 2018), MPs of the Communities Select Committee at last flushed out the developers and ground rent speculators who profit from turning ordinary families’ homes into long term investment assets. A murky sector that habitually hides behinds the courts, lawyers, lobbyists and trade bodies finally had to justify its […]

Galliard Homes ‘needs to take responsibility for what it has built’

APPG, April 26 A very different scene was outlined to the All Party Parliamentary Group on April 26 by Nigel Pickford (left), a leaseholder at New Capital Quay, another site with Grenfell cladding of more than 900 flats built by Galliard Homes only four years ago. The house builder also owns the freehold and the […]

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Criticism over bumper pay bonuses for Persimmon and Berkeley bosses

By Sebastian O’Kelly Persimmon share prices have surged 30 per cent to £457.4 million in the first half of the year – boosted by rip-off leasehold houses and the taxpayer-funded Help To Buy scheme. It means Jeff Fairburn, the CEO of the company, is in line for an absurd £125 million bonus. Unlike Tony Pidgley, […]

Long Harbour lobby MP Kate Osamor bars leasehold activist from Twitter feed

Corbynite Labour MP Kate Osamor, who asked a series of parliamentary questions on behalf of residential freehold fund Long Harbour, has barred a prominent leasehold activist from her Twitter feed. Baz Jafar, a doubling ground rent leaseholder, found he was blocked from his Edmonton MP’s official Twitter feed yesterday after raising the issue of the […]

‘Get leasehold done’? Boris Johnson’s Conservatives repeat 2017 pledges in manifesto

By Harry Scoffin The Conservative party will implement plans to ban the selling of houses as leasehold tenancies and slash new ground rents to zero, it was confirmed today. The policies feature in the 60-page manifesto entitled “Get Brexit Done, Unleash Britain’s Potential”, launched this afternoon in the marginal seat of Telford. On page 29 […]

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Sesame Apartments: Yet another anonymous Long Harbour freeholder demanding £2.2 million over Grenfell cladding

Labour MP for Battersea Marsha De Cordova is championing the cause of leaseholders facing bills of thousands of pounds at Sesame apartments. She told the Commons yesterday: “Leaseholders are still being left in limbo about whether they will be footing the bill. “But it is not leaseholders who have failed to upgrade buildings or cut […]

Cladding crisis reveals why freeholders are an impediment to any solution

The disaster of flammable cladding on blocks of flats and what to do about it is providing the biggest push to transform leasehold law since the eruption of the doubling ground rent scandal which we exposed in 2016. The question being asked is: what is the third-party freehold owning landlord actually for? For ground rent […]

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West India Quay’s victory against £74,560 legal onslaught … for a recognised residents’ association

  Giving recognition to a residents’ association at the most exclusive apartment block in Canary Wharf posed the sort of “risks that you see with the trade unions”, the First-Tier Tribunal was told last Thursday. The remark was made by the freeholder’s professional witness, chartered surveyor Bruce Maunder Taylor – and was greeted with guffaws […]

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Commons leasehold debate. December 20 2016

The Commons debate on leasehold reform took place after the intervention of LKP patrons Jim Fitzpatrick and Sir Peter Bottomley. The debate can be seen here: http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/fc53bd87-8abf-4986-b7ce-6a7a488b8cfc The debate can be read here: https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2016-12-20/debates/4F15110B-F6D5-4FA1-9154-536BD848130E/LeaseholdAndCommonholdReform The catalyst was the scandal of Taylor Wimpey selling homes between 2007-2011 with doubling ground rents and then selling the freeholds […]

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