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Neighbour forfeits leaseholder’s £600,000 London maisonette for putting in a new bathroom

September 7, 2018 By admin

Time for government to end forfeiture windfalls to landlords This story has since been taken up by The Times journalist Andrew Ellson and reported on MailOnline, The Sun and The Mirror: Leaseholder’s £600k flat seized over ‘redecoration’ A leaseholder has had a £600,000 flat confiscated by his freeholder after “redecorating” it in what campaigners say […]

Filed Under: Forfeiture, Latest News, News, Slider2 Tagged With: Charles McCadden, forfeiture

Two flats a year face forfeiture in constituency of housing minister Gavin Barwell

August 19, 2016 By admin

Back in 2006 the Law Commission recommended the total removal of leasehold forfeiture, but the government and its officials have done nothing about it. Instead, they argue that it is a very minor issue. So minor, in fact, that last year when the then shadow communities secretary Emma Reynolds asked in a parliamentary question how […]

Filed Under: Forfeiture, Latest News, News Tagged With: Dennis Jackson, forfeiture, Gavin Barwell

Housing Bill omits necessary ‘changes to leasehold and commonhold’

January 7, 2016 By admin

… and forfeiture needs changing, too Housing minister Brandon Lewis is facing trouble over his Housing Bill with Sir Peter Bottomley today telling the commons: “The Bill totally misses out the necessary changes to leasehold and commonhold. “Some years ago, the House passed a Bill to allow commonhold to come in. It has defects and […]

Filed Under: Commonhold, Forfeiture, Latest News, News, Parliament, Sir Peter Bottomley Tagged With: Brandon Lewis, Commonhold, forfeiture, Sir Peter Bottomley

How JB Leitch just cannot resist the F-word … for forfeiture

January 4, 2016 By admin

… the debt-chasing solicitors correspond with a buy-to-let investor who is barred from renting out his flat LKP  is not going to spend too much time on well resourced buy to let investors getting into a jam that their lawyers should have prevented, but this one is curious. The purchasers bought a flat in Thornton […]

Filed Under: Forfeiture, Latest News, News, Sub-letting Tagged With: forfeiture, JB Leitch, Leasehold Property Management Limited

LKP election manifesto … as minister thanks LKP for official leasehold figure of 4.1 million private properties

November 25, 2014 By admin

As LKP issues its all-party election manifesto, the Housing Minister Brandon Lewis this week recognised our work in completely revising official figures concerning leasehold properties. “I understand that the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership has worked closely with my officials to enable the publication of more accurate data on the number of residential dwellings in England subject […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, Parliament Tagged With: Brandon Lewis, forfeiture

Less ‘legal torture’ and more happiness in leasehold, says Sir Peter Bottomley

October 9, 2014 By admin

Sir Peter Bottomley made another strong speech over leasehold issues today at the Chartered Institute of Housing meeting in Crawley. It was titled “Less legal torture and more happiness in leasehold”. “All cases of forfeiture should be reported to the Master of the Rolls, who heads the civil courts,” said the MP, who along with […]

Filed Under: Commonhold, Latest News, News, Peverel, Peverel Cirrus story so far, Sir Peter Bottomley, Video Tagged With: Benjamin Mire, Chartered Institute of Housing, Commonhold, Dennis Jackson, Federation of Private Residents Associations, forfeiture, LEASE, Master of the Rolls, Sir Peter Bottomley

Woman has £165,000 flat forfeited over what began as £290 ground rent demand

September 18, 2014 By admin

A woman in east London had her £165,000 flat forfeited over what began as £290 owed in ground rents. The property had no mortgage, so the massive financial loss is entirely borne by her.

Filed Under: Forfeiture, Latest News, News, OFT / CMA Tagged With: CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, Dennis Jackson, forfeiture

LKP wins press awards for two years running

April 18, 2014 By admin

March 17 2014: Sebastian O’Kelly, Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation chairman and director of the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership, last night won a press award for his campaigning journalism over leasehold for the second year running. O’Kelly won the “Scoop of the Year” category for his report into the scandalous forfeiture of the £800,000 flat belonging to […]

Filed Under: Forfeiture, News Tagged With: Dennis Jackson, forfeiture, Plantation Wharf, Sebastian O’Kelly

Sebastian O’Kelly wins second press award for leasehold reform

March 18, 2014 By admin

Sebastian O’Kelly, Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation chairman and director of the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership, last night won a press award for his coverage of leasehold for the second year running. O’Kelly won the “Scoop of the Year” category for his report into the scandalous forfeiture of the £800,000 flat belonging to Dennis Jackson, at […]

Filed Under: Forfeiture, News, Plantation Wharf, Press Tagged With: Alexander Bastin, Dennis Jackson, forfeiture, Janice Northover, Plantation Wharf, Sebastian O’Kelly

George Osborne’s former nanny faces £100,000 bills and loss of home

February 4, 2014 By admin

The issues in this case – and others concerning local authority leasehold – will be debated tomorrow morning on BBC Five Live with Eric Pickles,  Communities Secretary, and Sebastian O’Kelly, of LKP, at 11.30am, Sunday January 12 A disastrous act of defiance in refusing to pay her share of a council’s major works scheme has […]

Filed Under: Forfeiture, Local authority leasehold, News, Slider2, Tribunal triumphs ... and defeats Tagged With: Farieda Chandoo, forfeiture, George Osborne, Southwark

George Osborne’s former nanny faces £100,000 bill and homelessness after refusing to pay major works on her leasehold ex-council flat

January 11, 2014 By admin

The issues in this case – and others concerning local authority leasehold – will be debated tomorrow morning on BBC Five Live with Eric Pickles,  Communities Secretary, and Sebastian O’Kelly, of LKP, at 11.30am, Sunday January 12    A disastrous act of defiance in refusing to pay her share of a council’s major works scheme […]

Filed Under: Forfeiture, Local authority leasehold, News, Tribunal triumphs ... and defeats, Video Tagged With: Farieda Chandoo, forfeiture, George Osborne, Southwark

Sunday Times reports the forfeiture scandal of Dennis Jackson at Plantation Wharf

November 26, 2013 By admin

The case of Dennis Jackson, 74, who came within a hair’s breadth of losing his Battersea flat at Plantation Wharf in a forfeiture action earlier this year, featured in the Sunday Times on November 24. The case is still on-going as Jackson is trying to sell his flat, on the market for £800,000, to pay […]

Filed Under: Forfeiture, News, Plantation Wharf, Press, Sir Peter Bottomley, Tribunal triumphs ... and defeats Tagged With: Dennis Jackson, forfeiture, Plantation Wharf, Sir Peter Bottomley, Sunday Times

Sir Peter Bottomley condemns criminal behaviour, price-fixing, cheating freeholders, exit fee fiddles, opportunist lawyers and feeble judicial intervention

November 14, 2013 By admin

… in a speech that ALL leaseholders have been waiting to hear   Sir Peter Bottomley made the speech all leaseholder victims of the system were waiting for when he condemned the current practices in the flawed sector. Speaking at the annual meeting of the Federation of Private Residents’ Associations – which LKP urges all […]

Filed Under: Benjamin Mire, Forfeiture, FPRA, Israel Moskovitz, Justin Bates, News, Peverel, Sir Peter Bottomley, Tchenguiz, Video Tagged With: Benjamin Mire, Commonhold, Federation of Private Residents Associations, forfeiture, FPRA, Sir Peter Bottomley, Tchenguiz

Pickles to stop councils charging leasehold owners more than £10,000 for major block repairs. But will it help many?

October 9, 2013 By admin

  DCLG Secretary Eric Pickles has stepped in to protect leasehold owners from staggering repair costs where local authorities are the freeholder. Full details here If central government money is being spent on improving local authority housing stock then leaseholders should not have to pay more than £10,000 … or, £15,000 in London. But it […]

Filed Under: Forfeiture, Local authority leasehold, News Tagged With: Eric Pickles, forfeiture, Local authority leasehold

Leasehold forfeiture: why is LEASE so pathetic over this, too?

June 1, 2013 By admin

LEASE is also under attack for failing to address the issue of leasehold forfeiture. LEASE happily tells freehold owners how to forfeit a lease, but does not tell leaseholders how to preserve their home. Nigel Wilkins, of the Campaign Against Residential Leasehold, who has been urging that forfeiture be ended, has written to LEASE chief […]

Filed Under: Forfeiture, Home Middle Right, LEASE Tagged With: Anthony Essien, Campaign Against Residential Leasehold, CARL, Dennis Jackson, forfeiture, Keith Hill, LEASE, Leasehold Advisory Service, Nigel Wilkins, Plantation Wharf, Regina v Waya, Wandsworth County Court

SCANDAL: LKP stops forfeiture of £800,000 flat … over a £7,000 service charge dispute

May 8, 2013 By admin

  COMMENT by Sebastian O’Kelly Two days ago (February 26 2013) when the barrister Alexander Bastin successfully asked the judge at Wandsworth County Court to throw me out of his court – citing the Human Rights Act – the whole sorry saga of Dennis Jackson (above) and Plantation Wharf reached a new low-point … although […]

Filed Under: Plantation Wharf, Sir Peter Bottomley, Slider Posts, Slider2, Tribunal triumphs ... and defeats Tagged With: forfeiture

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First-time buyers facing £8,000 ground rents stuffed by plc housebuilders

First-time buyers are contacting LKP after finding that they cannot sell leasehold houses or flats which have draconian ground rents introduced by plc housebuilders. An epidemic of leasehold houses is now being built across the country, with a heavy concentration in poorer regions, such as the North West. LKP reported earlier this week that £1.9 […]

Leasehold Advisory Service has ‘been under review’ for 10 years. Here are the findings …

The Leasehold Advisory Service, the government funded Leasehold Advisory Service, has been under review by the government for much of the last ten years. This seems to suggest that something is wrong, yet the government’s long-standing support for the Leasehold Advisory Service continues. LKP has, after many requests, obtained the two most recent reviews of […]

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Housebuilders sitting on 600,000 plots of land, while taxpayers pour in billions through Help To Buy

Housebuilders sitting on 600,000 plots of land, while taxpayers pour in billions through Help To Buy The Guardian reveals the extend of plc house builders landbanking in an article published on December 30 2018. Sadly omits Churchill Retirement and McCarthy and Stone – the latter having a particularly healthy land bank. It argued that – […]

Leasehold house owners thank Brokenshire after Persimmon sells freehold to leasehold house for less than £3,750

Here is an encouraging letter from the owners of a Persimmon leasehold house at Links Crescent, Seascale, in Cumbria. There is nothing remarkable in Persimmon selling a freehold for around £3,750, which is 25 x annual ground rent of £150. This is what our spoon-fed plc housebuilders – whose profits have been driven by taxpayer […]

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, […]

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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 […]

Pull the other one, Vincent! Leasehold reform hasn’t stuffed Fairhold. It was downgraded in 2015 …

  In today’s Financial Times interview, Vincent Tchenguiz says the sale of his Fairhold Securitisation Limited has collapsed because of buyers’ concerns over government reforms to leasehold. Vincent Tchenguiz pushes back on UK leasehold reform Property tycoon Vincent Tchenguiz is lobbying against proposed changes to the leasehold system that his company says threaten “unintended detrimental […]

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When leaseholders unite …

Civil service are fired up to reform leasehold, helped by the ‘personal commitment’ of the Secretary of State … Er

APPG, April 26 Both the MHCLG civil service and the Law Commission are genuinely enthused to reform the leasehold sector and moving fast to do so, encouraged by the Communities Secretary. This was the message of John Hall, director at the MHCLG, who was speaking on April 26 before the promotion of Sajid Javid to […]

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Hogan Lovells property solicitors report Blythe Court scandal on website

The issue of Blythe Court flats being sold with exorbitant ground rents is the subject of a website article by international property law giant Hogan Lovells. The article can be read in full here It reports how Sir Peter Bottomley intervened to stop the sale of 1 Blythe Court, which was to have been auctioned […]

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