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Do you REALLY know what your managing agent is charging you?

October 19, 2016 By admin

By Ian Hollins Clear Building Management For leaseholders and RMC directors looking to switch managing agent or perhaps outsource their building management for the first time, cost will inevitably be a factor in the decision-making. Not least because it’s one of the easier metrics to assess: it’s hard to gauge service levels until you’re actually […]

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‘You are all barrack-room lawyers with too much time on your hands,’ ARHM president tells complaining pensioners

At the House of Lords debate on Monday, Baroness Greengross, a Crossbencher peer and the president of the Association of Retirement Housing Managers trade body, caused outrage by claiming complaining pensioners in retirement developments were “barrack-room laywers” with too much time on their hands. “She has a nerve,” said Julia Scott, who lives in North […]

MPs tell government consultation: End leasehold houses. Scrap new ground rents. Ignore pleas for self-regulation. Ban Help To Buy on rip-off leaseholds

Self-regulation and codes of conduct have failed. Bring in commonhold and end the leasehold rip-offs. APPG pays “public tribute” to the work of LKP in revealing these abuses “LKP have helped hundreds of leaseholders keep their homes and continue to do so with very limited resources,” it says. Leasehold Sector ‘cannot be trusted’ All Party […]

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

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 […]

Leasehold rip-offs are ‘legalised extortion’ by housebuilders, says Chartered Institute of Building

Housebuilders ripping off leaseholders is the next RPI scandal, according to the Chartered Institute of Building yesterday. Its chief executive Chris Blythe OBE said the government’s White Paper was a disappointment, with only 240 words given to the subject of leasehold. The full article is here and we are delighted that the Chartered Institute of Building […]

Does Steve Morgan deserve a demo on Redrow’s doorstep?

By Sebastian O’Kelly No, not entirely. Yes, Redrow may be thought to be shafting its customers at Ledsham Garden Village by playing the leasehold angles, if these houses could be sold normally as freehold. Yes, it has high ground rents at its fancy flats at, for example, Kingston Riverside, in Surrey So far, so developer […]

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Fury in Manchester as Lendlease wins £160m contract to refurb city hall, while dumping Grenfell cladding costs on leaseholders

Anger has erupted in Manchester after Australian building group Lendlease was awarded a £330 million contract to refurbish the city hall – while declining to help remove Grenfell cladding from its private sites in the city. Lendlease refuses to contribute to remove cladding at two sites in Green Quarter, Vallea Court and Cypress Place which […]

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 […]

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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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Affluent freehold-owning couple’s lease terms bring ruin to families who bought flats that are virtually worthless

  An affluent couple living in the idyllic Cotswold village of Lower Slaughter are funding their lives through leasehold property cleverness that is costing poorer property buyers thousands of pounds. Martin Paine and his wife Margaret Anne Kirmond are benefiting from the sale of flats at Blythe Court in Coleshill, Birmingham, which have a trap […]

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