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

January 23, 2019 By admin 8 Comments

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

‘Fleecehold’ petition launched to stop housebuilders creating YET ANOTHER revenue stream from their customers

March 3, 2018 By admin

The Home Owners Rights Network – Hornet https://www.homeownersrights.net/  – is petitioning government to end the “fleecehold” racket. This is where house builders have created management companies for assets such as roads, lighting and drainage on new estates. Local authorities are delighted to be spared the expense, and the nation’s plc housebuilders have seen the angles of […]

Filed Under: Fleecehold, Latest News, News, Persimmon Tagged With: Alexander Middleton, Anthony Winston Burton, Antony John Dean, Colin David Thomson, Gateway Property Management, Gerry Campbell More, HORnet, Janet McQuillan, Persimmon, The Guardian

We are being ripped off by private estate charges by developers and property predators just like leaseholders, says HORnet

October 27, 2017 By admin

Thousands of homeowners on new build estates are facing escalating management charges for unadopted roads and patches of ground. Speculators are hoovering up these assets for the lucrative income streams, enforced through covenants on freehold houses and lease terms in leasehold properties. A campaign group called the HomeOwners’ Rights Network is asking the All Party […]

Filed Under: APPG, Fleecehold, Latest News, News Tagged With: APPG, Fleecehold, HomeOwners Rights Network, HORnet

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Lawyers to Communities Select Committee: Stop ‘sticking plaster reforms’. End ‘draconian’ forfeiture. £10 ground rents a ‘mistake’. Make legal costs fair to leaseholders. Commonhold failed because developers make money out of leasehold …

The evidence provided to the Communities Select Committee by lawyers – and the Law Commissioner Professor Nicholas Hopkins – add up to devastating criticisms of the leasehold system. Three lawyers who have made their careers in the sector barely had a good word to say about leasehold law, when they came before the Select Committee […]

Countrywide ‘ripping off’ leaseholders, MP tells Commons. And it is given the boot by Bovis Homes

– Property management company accused of stalling hand-over of residents’ management companies – Bovis Homes is ejecting Countrywide from Swindon sites and is not appointing it at future ones – And … Countrywide declines to confirm whether it is applying to join ARMA-Q Justin Tomlinson (left), Conservative MP for North Swindon, has accused Countrywide of […]

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Philip Rainey QC: Reform of the law is a duty (and for landlord and tenant law it is overdue)

In an address to the ARMA conference last week, Philip Rainey QC (right) did nothing less than urge the whole-scale reform of landlord and tenant law that has provided him with a comfortable living. Although prefaced with the lawyerly proviso – “it should not be assumed that I agree with all or any of the […]

Leasehold houses to be outlawed, says the Daily Mail

Developers are going to be banned from selling houses leasehold on land they own, according to the Daily Mail yesterday. It reported: Government sources said officials are looking at ending the use of leasehold for new developments of houses as well as setting a minimum lease length for new flats, ‘offering leaseholders greater security and […]

Taylor Wimpey CEO to meet MPs over ‘cancer’ of doubling ground rents (which were deterring astute buyers in 2007!)

Survey on onerous ground rent data. Please fill this in if you have a leasehold house with exploitative ground rent terms Next week Taylor Wimpey CEO Pete Redfern is to meet Sir Peter Bottomley and Jim Fitzpatrick, joint chairs of the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold reform. The meeting is private before the full […]

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Grenfell cladding

Grenfell cladding leaseholders despair of government doing anything ..

“For residents in private sector buildings identified as having this accelerant-type cladding we were often hopeful and encouraged by Government assurances from James Brokenshire and Kit Malthouse, that the cost will be met, not by leaseholders, but by the freeholder or developers.  In a statement regarding this issue, Brokenshire threatened that if they did not […]

Government thinking freeholders are paternalistic long-term custodians of a building is where it has gone wrong over Grenfell cladding

Sorry, they are just speculators in it for the enforceable income By Martin Boyd Translating freeholder or landlord as “building owner” is a bad idea that has led government to make a mess of its efforts to resolve the issue of Grenfell cladding on private sites. LKP explained to both Dame Judith Hackitt and the […]

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Recognised Tenants’ Association review – Part II

The APPG on leasehold and commonhold reform has asked two specialist barristers to provide formal opinions on the RTA SI which came into force on 1st November 2018. “The Tenants’ Associations (Provisions Relating to Recognition and Provision of Information) (England) Regulations 2018” The first opinion was provided by barrister Rebecca Cattermole of Tanfield Chambers. Miss […]

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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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