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Housing associations

L&Q rip-off ground rents

Housing association L&Q abandons rip-off doubling ground rents after CMA prodding

Category: Housing associations, Latest News, NewsTag: Housing associations, L&Q, Lucie Gutfreund

After cladding leaseholders issue damning report into housing associations’ response, housing minister Lord Greenhalgh lashes out at ‘sanctity of social housing providers that have built rubbish’

Category: Cladding scandal, Housing associations, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Catalyst, City Wharf Hoxton, Cladding scandal, Clarion, Harry Scoffin, Housing associations, Initial repair period, Kwajo Tweneboa, L&Q, Lord Greenhalgh, Lord Young of Cookham, Shared ownership, Short leases, sub-letting, subletting

LKP cladding scandal survey

LKP backs Sadiq Khan demand that ALL shared ownership leases to be 999 years

Category: Latest News, News, Shared ownershipTag: Housing associations, Sadiq Khan, Shared ownership, Short leases

Social Housing Annual Conference

You are better than commercial developers and freeholders so be kind over the cladding catastrophe, LKP urges housing association conference

Category: Housing associations, Latest News, NewsTag: Housing associations

Housing associations furious at government’s 10-year repair-free offer to new shared owners

Category: Latest News, News, Shared ownershipTag: A2Dominion, Ballymore, Brendan Sarsfield, City Wharf Hoxton, Eric Pickles, Florence Bourne, Florrie's law, Harry Scoffin, Housing associations, Initial repair period, Local authority leasehold, Major works, Notting Hill Genesis, Optivo, Paul Hackett, Peabody, Section 20, Shared ownership, Shula Rich, Wardian London

Jenrick’s £12bn home-building media fanfare falls flat as LBC radio returns to the cladding scandal

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Building safety fund, Cladding scandal, EWS1, Grenfell cladding, Harry Scoffin, Housing associations, LBC, Maajid Nawaz, Nick Ferrari, Rachael Venables, Robert Jenrick, Shared ownership

Clairon Property Ombudsman

Housing Ombudsman names and shames social landlords ‘consistently wrong’ with leaseholders and shared owners

Category: Housing associations, Latest News, Local authority leasehold, NewsTag: A2Dominion, EWS1, Harry Scoffin, Housing associations, Housing Ombudsman, Law Commission, Local authority leasehold, Notting Hill Genesis, Peabody, Professor Nick Hopkins, Shared ownership, Southwark, Southwark Council, Southwark Homeowner Council

Is ‘Chapman’ the new ‘Daejan’?

Category: Latest News, News, Property tribunalTag: Asphalt, Aster Group, Aster v Chapman, Daejan v Benson, Housing associations, Joshua Dubin, Legal costs, Lord Neuberger, Major works, Section 20, Section 20ZA, Section 27A, Surveyor costs

Andover asphalt major works war sees landlord forced to pay for leaseholders’ expert

Category: Latest News, News, Property tribunalTag: Asphalt, Aster Group, Covid-19, Daejan v Benson, Giles Peaker, Harry Scoffin, Housing associations, Joshua Dubin, Judge Stuart Bridge, Kingsway Gardens, Legal costs, Lord Neuberger, Lord Sumption, Lord Wilson, Major works, Nearly Legal, Property tribunal, Section 20, Section 20ZA, Surveyor costs, Tanfield Chambers, Upper-tier Tribunal

Fewer leaseholders’ rights would help make buildings safe, L&Q tells MPs

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Building safety reform, Daisy Cooper MP, Dame Judith Hackitt, Dennis Davis, Fire safety, Fire Safety Bill, Grenfell cladding, Harry Scoffin, Home Office, Housing associations, James Brokenshire MP, James Carpenter, Kit Malthouse, L&Q, MHCLG, National Fire Chiefs Council, Sarah Jones MP, Shared ownership, Sir Ed Davey, Waking watch contracts

‘Years’ to sign off Peabody flats as safe, BBC is told. That means no one is able to sell up and leave …

Category: Cladding scandal, Housing associations, Latest News, NewsTag: BBC R4 You and Yours, Bellway, Bellway Homes, Building safety fund, Catalyst, Cladding scandal, Clarion, Defective Premises Act 1972, EWS1, G15, Harry Scoffin, Housing associations, Hyde Housing, L&Q, Lord Greenhalgh, Melanie Abbott, Network Homes, Notting Hill Genesis, Optivo, Peabody, So-Stepney, Southern Housing Group, subletting, Tower Hamlets, UK Finance

An open letter to Robert Jenrick: the costs of delayed leasehold reform

Category: Cladding scandal, Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, Housing associations, Latest News, Law Commission, Local authority leasehold, MHCLG, NewsTag: Cladding scandal, CMA, DCLG, Eric Pickles, Florrie's law, Grant Shapps, Housing associations, James Brokenshire MP, Law Commission, LEASE, Major works, Martin Boyd, MHCLG, Notting Hill Genesis, OFT, Robert Jenrick, Sajid Javid, Section 20, Shared ownership

Mike Amesbury: Young, highly mortgaged, often shared owners, with now uncertain employment … are facing homelessness and ruin over cladding

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: A2Dominion, Christopher Pincher MP, City Wharf Hoxton, Cladding scandal, Covid-19, EWS1, Harry Scoffin, Housing associations, Islington Gates, Mike Amesbury MP, Sarah Jones MP, Shared ownership, Waking watch contracts

City Wharf Hoxton

A2 Dominion to dump 100% cladding costs on to 25% shared owners at City Wharf Hoxton

Category: Cladding scandal, Housing associations, Latest News, News, Shared ownershipTag: A2Dominion, City Wharf Hoxton, Cladding scandal, Covid-19, Housing associations, Shared ownership

MPs turn the heat on government over cladding scandal … on the day before two housing ministers were given the chop

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Alison Thewliss MP, Anne Marie Morris MP, Cladding insurance, David Lammy MP, Esther McVey, EWS1, Fleur Anderson MP, Harry Scoffin, Hilary Benn MP, Housing associations, Insurance, Insurance scams, James Cartlidge MP, Justin Madders MP, Kevin Hollinrake MP, Lyn Brown MP, Marsha de Cordova MP, Matthew Pennycook MP, Sam Tarry MP, Sarah Jones MP, Shabana Mahmood MP, Shared ownership, Sir Bob Neill MP, Tom Hunt MP, Waking watch contracts

Notting Hill Genesis cladding

Brexit day prisoner: Polish father desperate to sell Notting Hill Genesis cladding flat to join ailing family back home

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, Shared ownershipTag: Cladding scandal, EWS1, Housing associations, Notting Hill Genesis, Shared ownership

Housing association Network Homes seeks to dump some of its £200m cladding costs on leaseholders

Category: Housing associations, Latest News, News, Shared ownershipTag: Grenfell cladding, Housing associations, Network Homes, Shared ownership, The Times

London Assembly members

Shared ‘ownership’ is NOT ownership. It’s the ‘pay-day loan’ of housing and most regret having bought, London Assembly told

Category: Latest News, News, Shared ownershipTag: Andrew Boff, Housing associations, London Assembly, Nicky Gavron, Shared ownership, Tom Copley

Synergy housing association fined £1m over five-year-old’s death in lift

Category: Housing associations, Latest News, News, PressTag: Aster Group, Health and Safety Executive, Housing associations, Inside Housing, Orona Limited, Shared ownership, Synergy Housing Limited

Notting Hill Genesis housing association pulls shared ownership leasehold advert after complaints

Category: Housing associations, Latest News, NewsTag: Advertising Standards Authority, Housing associations, Notting Hill Genesis, Shared ownership

Circle Housing humiliated over £22,000 major works bills at Merton Priory knocked back to £3,500

Category: Housing associations, Latest News, Local authority leasehold, NewsTag: Circle Housing, Circle Housing Merton Priory, Housing associations, Keepmoat, Valerie Watson

Tower Hamlets Homes spends thousands to thwart recognised tenants’ association

Category: Latest News, Local authority leasehold, News, Recognised Tenants' AssociationTag: Housing associations, Rebecca Cattermole, Recognised Residents' Association, Susmita Sen, Tanfield Chambers, Tower Hamlets Homes

BBC Radio 4 on housing association leasehold … and a German asks: is it safe to buy a flat in London?

Category: Conveyancing Association, Housing associations, Latest News, News, Plantation Wharf, PressTag: BBC, BBC R4 You and Yours, Housing associations, Peter White, Plantation Wharf, Warm Front, Your Housing

Housing associations lose £750,000 in SmartSource Water scandal

Category: Hanover, Housing associations, News, PressTag: Bruce Moore, Dame Clare Tickell, Hanover, Housing 21, Housing associations, SmartSource Water, Tony Tench

OFT leasehold management inquiry includes housing associations and council properties – and will report in September

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, Housing associations, NewsTag: CMA, Housing associations, Local authority leasehold, OFT

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