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Every other major economy has moved away from residential leasehold so why not us, asks shadow housing minister Sarah Jones

July 25, 2019 By admin

Commons debate, July 11 2019 By Sebastian O’Kelly LKP chief executive The Labour shadow housing minister Sarah Jones questioned why the government had not made more progress with reforming our predatory leasehold laws. The Communities Select Committee had interviewed 7-800 people, including leaseholders, freeholders, developers, lawyers and trade bodies involved in the sector. Its exhaustive […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, Parliament Tagged With: Competition and Markets Authority, Heather Wheeler MP, Law Commission, Lord Best, Sarah Jones MP

Beware ground rent addicts bearing gifts with their good conduct pledge

April 4, 2019 By admin

Pugnacious advocate for reform, leasehold valuer and LKP trustee, LOUIE BURNS explains why the good behaviour ‘pledge’ by freeholders worked up with government is full of perils … Leasehold valuerBeware of freeholders bearing gifts – The truth about the Government’s freeholder pledge Freeholders launch clandestine plot to outflank leasehold reform and make millions of homes […]

Filed Under: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, Louie Burns, News Tagged With: Heather Wheeler MP, James Brokenshire MP, Louie Burns

Scorn for housing minister’s evidence to Select Committee

February 7, 2019 By admin

Where does one start with Housing minister Heather Wheeler’s evidence to the Communities Select Committee? LKP described Mrs Wheeler’s evidence on BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours programme as “ill-informed”.  Of the ten or so MPs in the room, it was apparent that the housing minister knew the least about leasehold. At 13.30 below: You […]

Filed Under: Communities Select Committee, Latest News, News, Press Tagged With: Clive Betts MP, Communities Select Committee, Heather Wheeler MP, James Brokenshire MP

Housebuilders ground rent scandal compo schemes ‘must go further and faster’, says housing minister

March 30, 2018 By admin

… And they should include homeowners trapped in re-sales, too Housing minister Heather Wheeler has declared that housebuilders schemes to the doubling ground rent scandal – which has made 100,000 properties unsellable – “must go further and faster”. Buyers of second hand properties need to be included, and the housebuilders’ ex-customers need to be “proactively […]

Filed Under: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, National Leasehold Campaign, News Tagged With: Clive Betts MP, E&J Capital Partners, Ground Rents Income Fund plc, Heather Wheeler MP, Taylor Wimpey

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Guardian’s Patrick Collinson says ‘time to reform leasehold in entirety’

The first speaker at the APPG was Patrick Collinson, Money editor, at the Guardian, who has been campaigning with this story over the past month and half. Although Mr Collinson kindly acknowledged the activities of LKP, he was first alerted to doubling rents by his 90-year-old father. The latter was advising Mr Collinson’s brother on […]

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

By Harry Scoffin As MPs debated the Queen’s speech on Monday, Sir Peter Bottomley demanded the government urgently brings forward legislation to help the “10 million people” at risk of abuse in leasehold properties, “a very high proportion of our electorate”. The Tory veteran remade the case for bold action on the leasehold scandal, saying […]

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Dear Pete Redfern … Taylor Wimpey cheated us: what are you doing about it?

Taylor Wimpey CEO Pete Redfern was deluged with emails this morning from desperate owners of leasehold houses. The initiative was organised by the Facebook group National Leasehold Campaign of leasehold house owners. The correspondence was copied in to Sajid Javid, Secretary of State at the DCLG, and housing minister Gavin Barwell. Many emails were also […]

Viscount Astor hears the lamentations of leaseholders

Viscount Astor, step-father of Samantha Cameron and father of ground rent investor William Waldorf Astor, attended the All-Party Parliamentary Group meeting on leasehold reform on December 14. Sadly, he did not share his thoughts at the meeting, as he heard how unaffluent first-timer buyers are upset with doubling ground rents in Bolton. Or, how lawyers […]

Ban revenue-generating leasehold houses, says Justin Madders MP. Redrow responds

Labour MP Justin Madders has demanded a ban on the building of leasehold houses where there is no justification for them. Leasehold houses have proliferated as housebuilders exploit the housing crisis to make extra revenues by selling off the freeholds, often to shady investors based overseas who hide behind nominee directors. Worse, some housebuilders – […]

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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 […]

Grenfell Tower, what next?

LKP would like to express our deepest sympathy to all those affected by tragic fire at Grenfell Tower. Residents of flats across the country are now quite naturally also concerned about the saftey of their own blocks. The press has been speculating on who and what is to blame, but it will take experts some […]

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When leaseholders unite …

Why does it take 60% of leasehold residents to create a tenants’ association – and only 30% of his constituency to elect Housing Minister Mark Prisk?

The Leasehold Knowledge Partnership is strongly urging Housing Minister Mark Prisk (right) to change the rules to recognise tenants’ associations, as leasehold residents’ associations are formally known in law. At present they can only be set up when 60 per cent of the residents ask for one to be recognised by their freeholder. This is a […]

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Martin Paine, embedded management companies, LKP … all raised in Queen’s speech debate

These issues were raised by Sir Peter Bottomley in the Queen’s Speech debate yesterday Let me turn to other issues that come up for Back Benchers. I pick up causes, one of which came about as a result of an incident in my constituency regarding leasehold, when some elderly, frail and poor people found themselves […]

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