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Boughton Hall’s £950,000 freehold for sale and it pays out 22% a year …

December 22, 2015 By admin

(… unless Law Commission’s exit fee report ends this income stream) It is not often that you are made an offer that it would be simply madness to refuse, and it is a great shame for the elderly at Boughton Hall in Chester that it has come so late in their lives. The 80 residents […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, William Waldorf Astor Tagged With: Barnardos Developments Ltd, Boughton Hall, Enterprise Property Group Ltd, Long Harbour, Right of first refusal, William Waldorf Astor, Woodchester Valley Village

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The House of Lords had another short debate on leasehold issues last Thursday and urged the case for reform to benefit five million leaseholders. The debate was initiated by by LibDem peer Baroness Maddock, who said “further reform is still needed and is very much a live concern for the millions of people living in […]

Housebuilder Bob Bessell says ‘no justification for ground rents at all’

Bob Bessell, founder of retirement housebuilder Retirement Security, told the All Party Parliamentary Group that he has never charged ground rents. His company, based in Stratford on Avon and founded in 1985, has built 1,600 retirement flats around the country at 30 sites. “I started as a social worker and I had to invent things […]

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Leaseholders demand end to Redrow selling leasehold houses

” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] The weather was on the housebuilders’ side, but 40 demonstrators protested outside Redrow’s Ledsham Garden Village site on Saturday demanding an end to leasehold houses. They were joined by local MP Justin Madders, ITV News, BBC Radio 4’s You & Yours consumer programme, some damp children, a number of unhappy […]

Housebuilders and stooge conveyancing solicitors face legal action, reports The Times

‘Builders must pay to fix rip-off leaseholds’ Builders accused of mis-selling new homes are braced for legal claims worth millions of pounds after locking buyers into leases with spiralling ground rent charges. Sajid Javid, the communities secretary, this week announced plans to ban homebuilders from selling new houses on a leasehold basis. The Times today […]

Beech Developments sets off customer mutiny in Wales with grasping ground rents

Survey on onerous ground rent data. Please fill this in if you have a leasehold house with exploitative ground rent terms Leasehold game-playing has spectacularly backfired for Beech Developments at its Gwel y Mynydd site in Llandudno Junction. The small-scale housebuilder decided to build the houses leasehold, which cost around £250,000, with escalating ground rents: […]

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Leaseholders to sue government over fire safety measures

But housing minister says further funding must come from the building owners. (Hasn’t that been tried before?) By Harry Scoffin The Guardian reports that leaseholders across 12 sites in Manchester are preparing to take the government to court over their policy towards fire safety problems with privately-owned tower blocks. Although government has recently pledged £200m […]

Grenfell United link up with leaseholder groups to protest cladding crisis and warn next government of Grenfell 2

By Harry Scoffin Survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire have this week joined forces with leaseholders stuck in privately-owned blocks clad with deadly combustibles, telling the major party leaders of their “deep and grave concern that a Grenfell-like fire is going to occur again”. In a letter sent on Tuesday to Boris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn […]

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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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