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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 […]

Barnard Marcus withdraws Blythe Court flat from auction

Barnard Marcus Auctioneers, part of the Sequence Auctions group, has suspended the sale of 1 Blythe Court. It has a ground rent of £8,000 a year, and the deed of variation outlining this condition does not appear to be in the legal documentation accompanying the sale. The flat belongs to Margaret Anne Kirmond, wife of […]

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McCarthy and Stone and Churchill: are you blackmailing government over the ground rent ban and is your business model broken? Asks BBC R4 MoneyBox

Brilliant interview with outgoing McCarthy and Stone CEO Clive Fenton ‘Problem’ that retirement housebuilders have not been spoonfed profits, like others through Help To Buy Anyway, aren’t retirement housebuilders insignificant given the numbers of pensioners who are downsizing today, asks BBC? Radio 4’s MoneyBox quizzed retirement housebuilders McCarthy and Stone and Churchill Retirement Living on […]

Ripped-off leaseholders bring protest to central Manchester

” template=”default” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] More than 60 leaseholders caught up in the ground rent scandal joined a demonstration organised by the National Leasehold Campaign Facebook group in Manchester yesterday. The demo staged their protest outside the annual conference of the Chartered Institute of Housing, which was to be addressed by new housing minister […]

BBC R4 You and Yours exposes Taylor Wimpey buyers facing doubled ground rents to £500 before 10 years have passed

It was another day in the media for Taylor Wimpey over leasehold houses scandal as BBC Radio 4’s influential You and Yours programme returned to the subject. It can be heard here at 34.40 This time reporter Simon Hoban looked at buyers whose leases had already eroded two or three years before purchase – meaning […]

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Bellway and Peabody cave in over Grenfell cladding costs at New Festival Quarter

Bellway “as a responsible developer” is meeting the bill … So what about the not-so-responsible Lendlease and Ballymore? In yet another triumph of leaseholder activism, Bellway and the Peabody Trust have caved in over the Grenfell cladding costs at New Festival Quarter. The east London site in the constituency of Jim Fitzpatrick, Labour MP for […]

Tchenguiz, Astor and offshore freeholders like Abacus Land 4 Limited should PUBLICLY meet over Grenfell cladding, MPs told

Sir Peter Bottomley urged government to hold a public meeting and call in Vincent Tchenguiz, William Waldorf Astor and the offshore owners of residential freeholders to resolve the Grenfell cladding issue. He told Communities Secretary Said Javid: “This week saw the first proper tribunal decision, regarding Citiscape in Croydon, which is owned by the Tchenguiz […]

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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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