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Does Li Ka-shing own your Adriatic freehold, or Hutchison Whampoa, or billionaire Frank Sixt, or Astor? Only Long Harbour knows, and it’s not saying …

December 7, 2019 By admin 3 Comments

The secretive Long Harbour fund came under further scrutiny today, with an article in The Times on leasehold house owners in the north-west mounting a collective challenge for their freeholds. But who owns these freeholds, where the beneficial ownership is hidden behind nominee directors of a company secretary group headquartered in Jersey? Families challenge Long […]

Filed Under: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News Tagged With: CK Hutchison Holdings, Crosby Textor, Hutchison Whampoa, Li Ka-shing, Long Harbour, Sir Lynton Crosby, Sir Peter Bottomley, The Times, Viscount Astor, William Waldorf Astor

Boris’s PR gurus Crosby Textor have NOT been nobbling government over ground rents (well, not since autumn 2017 anyway …)

June 29, 2019 By admin

The PR firm managing the leadership campaign of Boris Johnson, Crosby Textor, says it has not been lobbying government on behalf of its ground rent fund clients. Or, at any rate, since autumn 2017. Crosby Textor, founded by election guru Sir Lynton Crosby, has the £1.6 billion Long Harbour fund as a client. Its chief […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News Tagged With: Adrian Flook, Boris Johnson, Crosby Textor, Kate Osamor MP, Sir Lynton Crosby

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

November 2, 2018 By admin

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 […]

Filed Under: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Parliament, William Waldorf Astor Tagged With: Baz Jafar, Countryside Properties plc, Crosby Textor, ground rents, Kate Osamor MP, Long Harbour, Pagefield, Will Astor

Will Astor ‘tried to nobble reform of ground rents’, Daily Mail claims

December 21, 2017 By admin

The ground rent speculator – and former employee of Vincent Tchenguiz – Will Astor mounted an eleventh hour lobbying effort to derail reform of leasehold, reports the Daily Mail today. The Mail claims that the 38-year-old, who is the half brother-in-law of former prime minister David Cameron, hired London-based PR firm Pagefield through his £1.3 […]

Filed Under: Cladding crisis, Latest News, News, William Waldorf Astor Tagged With: Crosby Textor, Daily Mail, Long Harbour, Sir Lynton Crosby, Will Astor

Will Heysmoor Heights leaseholders lose their homes to anonymous offshore freeholder if they cannot pay Grenfell bills?

December 19, 2017 By admin

Will Astor asked whether he has beneficial interest in Abacus Land 4 Limited   The anonymous world of offshore ownership in the leasehold sector is placed in sharp relief by families facing £18,000 demands to remove Grenfell cladding and pay for fire marshals at Heysmoor Heights, in Toxteth in Liverpool. The freeholder is Abacus Land […]

Filed Under: Cladding crisis, Latest News, News, Slider2, William Waldorf Astor Tagged With: Abacus Land 4 Limited, Adrian Flook, Citiscape, Crosby Textor, Grenfell cladding, grenfell tower, Heysmoor Heights, Homeground Management Limited, Long Harbour, Louise Ellman MP, Tchenguiz Family Trust, Will Astor

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Communities Select Committee reject the “pledge”

Following on from the announcement of a sector “Pledge for leaseholders” by Secretary of State James Brokenshire on 28th March 2019 the Chair of the Communities Select Committee, Clive Betts MP, has been quick to respond. Chair Betts welcomed the government’s work but strongly cautioned against the pledge in a letter sent to the Secretary […]

Time to ban Redrow in Liverpool, asks leasehold victim Rosie Cooper MP – who also names stooge solicitors Bannister Preston

Commons debate, July 11 2019 Labour MP Rosie Cooper has asked whether it is time to ban Redrow from developing in Liverpool, after the council banned ground rent game-players Countryside Properties plc from the city. Ms Cooper also named Bannister Preston Solicitors LLP – a firm repeatedly recommended by housebuilders which apparently did not highlight […]

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Housebuilders ground rent scandal compo schemes ‘must go further and faster’, says housing minister

… And they should include homeowners trapped in re-sales, too Housing minister Heather Wheeler has declared that housebuilders schemes to the doubling ground rent scandal – which has made 100,000 properties unsellable – “must go further and faster”. Buyers of second hand properties need to be included, and the housebuilders’ ex-customers need to be “proactively […]

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 […]

Buyer pulls out of Persimmon £219,995 leasehold house purchase

Survey on onerous ground rent data. Please fill this in if you have a leasehold house with exploitative ground rent terms A house buyer in Coventry has pulled out of buying a “virtual freehold” Persimmon new build because it is being sold on leasehold tenure. The four-bedroom Persimmon property was priced at £219,995, and has […]

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Grenfell cladding

Sean Mulryan’s Ballymore won’t be doing the ‘decent thing’ over Grenfell cladding costs at New Providence Wharf

Dublin-based developer Ballymore has bluntly told an MP that leaseholders will have to pay to remove Grenfell ACM cladding panels at New Providence Wharf in Poplar, east London. It joins Aussie developer Lendlease, which is refusing to pay out – or explain why not – at Cypress Place and Vallea Court in Manchester. A figure […]

You need professional property managers to deal with fire safety in high-rises, says FirstPort CEO Nigel Howell


APPG, April 26 The chief executive of FirstPort welcomed more professionalism in the residential property management sector, especially when dealing with vitally important issues such as tower blocks with defective cladding. Nigel Howell also told the APPG on April 26 how his company responded to the discovery of Grenfell cladding at Citiscape in Croydon, where […]

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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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Stop auction of ‘worthless’ flat at Blythe Court and alert authorities, Commons asked

Sir Peter Bottomley has urged the Commons to intervene in the auction sale of Flat 1 Blythe Court, where the freeholders and managers are Martin Paine and his wife Anne Kirmond. Flat 1 Blythe Court is up for auction with Barnard Marcus on February 2 in central London with a guide price of £65,000. Sir […]

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