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Re-energised LEASE holds annual conference

February 10, 2015 By admin

A re-energised and confident Leasehold Advisory Service held its LEASE annual conference 2015 in central London last Wednesday. It was a gathering of some of the brightest – perhaps most socially engaged – of the players in the professional leasehold world: lawyers, surveyors, property tribunal judges, property managers. For the third time – and it […]

Filed Under: Latest News, LEASE, News Tagged With: Anthony Essien, Damian Green, Douglas Cooper, LEASE, LEASE annual conference, Leasehold Advisory Service, Martin Perry, Roger Southam, Siobhan McCrath

You and Yours features Campaign against Residential Leasehold Exploitation and OFT inquiry into leasehold management

March 18, 2014 By admin

The influential BBC  Radio 4 programme You and Yours yesterday featured retirement leasehold. This is an area of “most concern” according to Douglas Cooper, of the Office of Fair Trading, which is carrying out an inquiry into leasehold management. The programme can be heard here and the item begins 46 minutes into the programme.

Filed Under: McCarthy and Stone, News, OFT / CMA, Peverel, Peverel Cirrus story so far, Press Tagged With: Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation, Competition and Markets Authority, Douglas Cooper, McCarthy and Stone, OFT, Sebastian O’Kelly, Susan Wood, Trust Property Management, You and Yours

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Boris Johnson praises campaign for leaseholders who are being ‘cheated’

The prime minister, Boris Johnson, spoke in support of leaseholders at his first prime minister’s questions earlier this week. In reply to a question by Sir Peter Bottomley he said that he was fully aware of the “injustices that leaseholders are facing”. He congratulated Sir Peter Bottomley for the campaign that he has been running […]

Grenfell cladding debate: Who thinks offshore freeholders will pay (apart from government ministers)?

– Government should retrospectively ensure leaseholders are a legal party to insurance and warranties – Identify offshore freeholders demanding huge sums of money, MP demands – Get freeholders in front of Communities Select Committee – Waive VAT on cladding replacement costs, says Bottomley – Steve Reed MP: ‘No other country in the European Union permits […]

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Ground rent scandals

Should you buy a leasehold house now? Certainly not!

The Daily Mail makes a good point today: tens of thousands of leasehold house owners – and a fair few thousand potential buyers – are in limbo land. They do not know what is going to happen to this form of tenure. LKP’s advice is: do not touch a leasehold house with a barge-pole. They […]

Leasehold houses and the sales process were ‘absolutely disgusting’, MPs told. But have laws been broken?

Charities and housing associations are ‘ripped off’ as bogus sales prices are recorded on Land Registry, it is claimed Many leasehold house buyers are in negative equity owing to over-valuations Developers’ ‘morally debatable’ conduct over leasehold house sales, with ‘huge benefits’ to use recommended solicitors If developer recommended solicitors complete within 28 days, there is […]

Adriatic Land now wants £54,000 for my freehold that Taylor Wimpey said would cost £6,000

Joanne Darbyshire, owner of a Taylor Wimpey leasehold house in Bolton, tells MPs at the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold reform how Taylor Wimpey sold her £6,000 freehold to Adriatic Land, which wants £54,000 … Oh, and she would have to pay  £108 just to get this preposterous quote In November 2010 we bought a […]

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Grenfell cladding

Santa visits Citiscape and New Providence Wharf

Twelve months ago the leaseholders in Citiscape Croydon were in a very dark place. They were being taken to the Tribunal by FirstPort to prove that they should be liable for cladding costs, which were estimated at over £2 million – over £20,000 per flat. The leaseholders had been given poor advice by LEASE on […]

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 […]

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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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Disgraceful …

Spreading Paine: the freeholds owned by Martin Paine and his wife (Margaret) Anne Kirmond

Below are freeholds from the Land Registry featuring properties owned by companies belonging to Martin Paine and / or his wife Margaret Anne Kirmond. They appear to own the freeholds of 444 flats, and other assets on leases such as garages. The freehold owning companies are Mercia Property Investments Limited, F.t.z. Limited and Chamber Estates Limited. We […]

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