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Ground rents

Law Commission leasehold reform

Government announces ban on new ground rents now, THEN reform leasehold (which is what LKP recommended)

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: Ground rents, Law Commission

Cracks in the leasehold racket as Barratt London drops ground rents

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Barratt, Ground rents

CMA ground rent

Settle up with doubling ground rent victims or see you in court next year, CMA tells house builders

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, Latest News, NewsTag: Barratt, Bellway, CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, Countryside Properties plc, Ground rents, Persimmon, Redrow, Taylor Wimpey

Law Commission reports offer blueprint to demolish monetising landlordism in residential leasehold

Category: Latest News, Law Commission, NewsTag: Commonhold, Enfranchisement, Ground rents, Informal lease extension, Law Commission, Lease extension, MHCLG, Peppercorn ground rents, Professor Nick Hopkins, Right to manage, Strata title

Pensioners in former pit village fight ground rents rising from £10 a year to £1,100pa (after a demand for £2,450pa was rejected)

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Alan Copley Pennington, Alan Shaun Pennington, Alexander Stafford MP, Coppen (Estates) Limited, David Alan Senior, Dennis Plant, Ground rents, Heather Plant, Leasehold houses, National Coal Board, Robert Jenrick, Shirley Pennington, Thurcroft

Ground Rents Income Fund plc

Telegraph says buy Ground Rents Income Fund plc, which has fallen 31.6% and lost court action over Beetham Tower

Category: Ground rent scandal, John Christodoulou, Latest News, NewsTag: Beetham Tower, Braemar Estates, Ground rents, Ground Rents Income Fund plc, John Christodoulou, Rendall and Rittner, The Daily Telegraph

Jenrick tells Bottomley: Bill to set new ground rents at peppercorn coming ‘shortly’

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: APPG, Covid-19, Ground rents, James Brokenshire MP, Leasehold houses, Lord Greenhalgh, Sajid Javid, Sir Peter Bottomley

Hugh Mcgreever RMG

RMG’s unexplained blunder increased pensioners’ ground rents by 59%, saying it was ‘in line with RPI’

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Benjamin Bleier, David Cowans, Ground rents, Holdmanor Limited, Hugh Mcgeever, Norman Bleier, Places for People, RMG

John Christodoulou side-steps £4m ‘dou-dou’ at Beetham Tower, where leaseholders face bills of £40,000 each as the works begin

Category: Canary Riverside, John Christodoulou, Latest News, News, West India QuayTag: Beetham Tower, Canary Riverside, Canary Riverside Estate Management Limited, Ground rents, Ground Rents Income Fund plc, John Christodoulou, Major works, Section 20, West India Quay

Clive Betts MP leasehold mis-selling

CMA’s devastating report on leasehold mis-selling echoes the Communities Select Committee, says Clive Betts MP

Category: Cladding scandal, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Parliament, PressTag: Clive Betts MP, Ground rents

Lords hear how LKP warned government over ground rents and leasehold houses … in 2015

Category: House of Lords, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Baroness Grender, Brandon Lewis, Competition and Markets Authority, Ground rents, Leasehold houses, Sajid Javid

‘Peppercorn’ ground rents on Help To Buy properties … from next year

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Ground rents, Help To Buy, Leasehold houses, Robert Jenrick

Rebecca Long-Bailey leasehold

Rebecca Long-Bailey asks Will Astor why Long Harbour is demanding £10,000 to vary toxic doubling ground rent leases

Category: Latest News, News, William Waldorf AstorTag: Ground rents, Long Harbour, Rebecca Long-Bailey MP, Will Astor, William Waldorf Astor

Boris Johnson Manifesto

‘Get leasehold done’? Boris Johnson’s Conservatives repeat 2017 pledges in manifesto

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: 2019 election, Boris Johnson, Conservative Party, Ground rents

Don’t forget about 10 million voters, Bottomley tells the government … which omitted leasehold reform from the Queen’s speech

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Commonhold, Ground rents, John Healey, John Healey MP, Robert Jenrick, Sir Peter Bottomley

Esther McVey hints at new era of friendly cross-party consensus in Commons debate

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Communities Select Committee, Esther McVey, Ground rents, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Sir Peter Bottomley

John Healey

John Healey blasts the government over lack of support for existing leaseholders as Tory backbench unease grows

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Crispin Blunt MP, Eddie Hughes MP, Ground rents, James Brokenshire, James Brokenshire MP, John Healey MP

Welsh policymakers back monetary ground rents while pondering ‘compulsory commonhold’

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: ARMA, Cassandra Zanelli, Commonhold, Ground rents, Long Harbour, Wales

Political arms race commences as Labour announces £250 ground rents for existing leaseholders

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Ground rents, Labour

‘The genie is out of the bottle,’ three lawyers solemnly explain to industry insiders in Estates Gazette  

Category: Commonhold, Communities Select Committee, Latest News, NewsTag: Commonhold, Communities Select Committee, Ground rents, Law Commission, leasehold and commonhold reform, leasehold reform

Taylor Wimpey’s Pete Redfern tells FT ‘we got it wrong on ground rents’

Category: Commonhold, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Press, Taylor WimpeyTag: Ground rents, Help To Buy, Leasehold houses, Taylor Wimpey

Exclusive: Commonhold can only work if ground rents are banned, said Ministry of Justice – in 2009!

Category: Commonhold, Latest News, NewsTag: Commonhold, Ground rents, Ministry of Justice

Better late than never for the CMA?

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Andrea Coscelli, CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, Ground rents

Bob Blackman gets Theresa May to commit to ‘peppercorn’ ground rents … Let’s hope she knows what it means

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Bob Blackman MP, Ground rents, Theresa May

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

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Parliament, William Waldorf AstorTag: Baz Jafar, Countryside Properties plc, Crosby Textor, Ground rents, Kate Osamor MP, Long Harbour, Pagefield, Will Astor

Kit Malthouse to meet Persimmon over doubling ground rent at Picket Twenty site

Category: Latest News, News, Persimmon, PressTag: Andover Star, Ground rents, Jeff Fairburn, Kit Malthouse, Persimmon

APPG July 11: Retirement event fees ‘align interests of buyers and operators’, Michael Voges tells meeting

Category: APPG, APPG July 11 2018, Latest News, News, Parliament, RetirementTag: ARCO, Association of Retirement Community Operators, Ground rents, Michael Voges

APPG July 11: The case for ground rents from McCarthy and Stone

Category: APPG, APPG July 11 2018, Latest News, McCarthy and Stone, News, ParliamentTag: Clive Fenton, Ground rents, McCarthy and Stone

APPG July 11: Retirement fees whether ground rents or event fees need to be for defined services not open-ended profits, says AgeUK

Category: APPG, APPG July 11 2018, Latest News, McCarthy and Stone, News, ParliamentTag: AgeUK, APPG, ARCO, Ground rents, Joe Oldman, McCarthy and Stone

Taylor Wimpey’s snake oil ground rent review scheme makes toxic leases even worse: in my case, £25m worse!

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, National Leasehold Campaign, News, Taylor WimpeyTag: Ground rents, Taylor Wimpey

Leaseholders urge Clive Betts MP to quiz housebuilders over ground rent review schemes

Category: Communities Select Committee, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Clive Betts MP, Communities Select Community, Ground rents

Please exempt retirement housebuilders from ground rent ban, pleads Sir Desmond Swayne

Category: Latest News, McCarthy and Stone, News, Parliament, RetirementTag: Churchill Retirement Living, Ground rents, McCarthy and Stone, Retirement, Sir Desmond Swayne MP

Guardian reports misery of leasehold home owners trapped by John Lewis Partnership Pension Trust – and the Mail, Sun, Mirror and Lad Bible (any we have missed?)

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, PressTag: Ground rents, John Lewis Partnership Pension Trust, Patrick Collinson, The Guardian

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