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‘Fleecehold’ estate management contracts are the latest fiddle from taxpayer-subsidised house builders

January 23, 2019 By admin

Inflated “fleecehold” private estate management contracts came under scrutiny yesterday in the Commons yesterday, as exasperated MPs yet again waded-in to our tax-payer subsidised house builders. The debate was called by Helen Goodman, Labour MP for Bishop Aukland, (above) who described the proliferation of private estate income streams as “a scandal. There has clearly been mis-selling.” […]

Filed Under: Fleecehold, Justin Madders MP, Latest News, News, Parliament Tagged With: Fleecehold, Helen Goodman MP, HORnet, Justin Madders MP

Labour MP Helen Goodman fights ‘fleecehold’ rip-offs with Private Members’ Bill

November 14, 2018 By admin

Helen Goodman, Labour MP for Bishop Auckland, today launches her Private Members Bill to ban “fleecehold” charges on private estates. These are a where new estates have roads, lighting and communal spaces unadopted by the local council, which have to be maintained at the residents’ expense. Inevitably in the property world, this has become another […]

Filed Under: Fleecehold, Latest News, News, Parliament Tagged With: Fleecehold, Helen Goodman MP

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Taylor Wimpey more greedy than the ground rent ‘Mr Smallweeds’ (and so are other plc housebuilders)

Survey on onerous ground rent data. Please fill this in if you have a leasehold house with exploitative ground rent terms Groundrentsforsale.com probably does not regard itself as dilatory in furthering the interests of freehold investors who feast off ground rents. Sounding like Dickens’ unappetising Mr Smallweed – “Shake me up, Judy!” – in Bleak […]

Bob Blackman gets Theresa May to commit to ‘peppercorn’ ground rents

By Harry Scoffin One of the best aspects of the Communities Select Committee’s excellent report into the broken leasehold system, was that Conservative MPs ended up as vehemently opposed to it as Labour ones. Last month Bob Blackman, Tory MP for Harrow East, secured another mini victory at Prime Minister’s Questions. Theresa May committed to […]

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Scandal makes Ground Rents Income Fund plc fall £6m since March but … it has paid out 40.6% in three years

The Ground Rents Income Fund plc has fallen in value by as much as £6 million since March owing to “recent media attention” on the ground rents scandal (see report below). The £124 million fund almost certainly fell further on the announcement of Sajid Javid, Communities Secretary, earlier this week that he was going to […]

Dear Ted Ayres … your company Bellway sold our family’s future

Ted Ayres, the CEO of Bellway, also received a wave of emails from his disgruntled customers this morning. The initiative was organised by the Facebook group National Leasehold Campaign of leasehold house owners. In common with all the others in on the leasehold house wheeze, Bellway has been creating an investment asset class at the […]

Help offered to leasehold house owners facing onerous ground rents

Survey on onerous ground rent data. Please fill this in if you have a leasehold house with exploitative ground rent terms Two leasehold professionals with a track record of assisting leaseholders are willing to be consulted for advice by those caught up in the scandal of leasehold houses. Louie Burns is the MD of Leasehold […]

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Will Astor ‘tried to nobble reform of ground rents’, Daily Mail claims

The ground rent speculator – and former employee of Vincent Tchenguiz – Will Astor mounted an eleventh hour lobbying effort to derail reform of leasehold, reports the Daily Mail today. The Mail claims that the 38-year-old, who is the half brother-in-law of former prime minister David Cameron, hired London-based PR firm Pagefield through his £1.3 […]

(Galliard v NHBC v the Government v Cladding suppliers) v the Leaseholders

This week saw The Times, the Guardian and the BBC reporting on the ‘New Capital Quay’ site in Greenwich.This site is the largest privately owned development in the UK with ACM type cladding. Costs for replacing the cladding are being suggested at £20 million or even £40 million. In an interview for ‘You and Yours’ […]

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Has Brokenshire trashed Sajid Javid’s reforms of leasehold?

  October 14 2018 UPDATE: On January 29 2019 Communities Secretary James Brokenshire held a round table with leaseholder groups, assuring them that zero ground rents were on the table. Sebastian O’Kelly, of LKP and www.BetterRetirementHousing.com, argued for retirement housing also to lose its exemption from any ground rent ban.  This week we should have […]

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Martin Paine ‘is a crook who is turning sleaze in leases into an art form’, MPs told

Sir Peter Bottomley (Conservative, Worthing West) named the leasehold-gameplayer Martin Paine as a “crook” in the Commons yesterday. “We should not have to rely on the chance action of a campaigning charity such as LKP [the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership] or  the Campaign Against Retirement Leasehold Exploitation—or a passing Member of Parliament, to get things put […]

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