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Government is hiding behind Law Commission and CMA, says Tory MP Bob Blackman

July 25, 2019 By admin

Commons debate, July 11 2019 Bob Blackman, the Conservative MP for Harrow West, claims the government is prevaricating over leasehold reform. It notes what the Communities Select Committee, of which Mr Blackman is a member, has unearthed but “there has been no commitment to actrion”. “The Government are leaning on the fact that the Law […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, Parliament Tagged With: Bellway, Bob Blackman MP, Communities Select Committee, Jason Honeyman

Communities Select Committee lifts the lid on the residential freehold racket

November 23, 2018 By admin

By Sebastian O’Kelly On Monday (November 19 2018), MPs of the Communities Select Committee at last flushed out the developers and ground rent speculators who profit from turning ordinary families’ homes into long term investment assets. A murky sector that habitually hides behinds the courts, lawyers, lobbyists and trade bodies finally had to justify its […]

Filed Under: Communities Select Committee, Fleecehold, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Parliament, Slider2 Tagged With: Bellway, British Property Federation, Clive Betts MP, Communities Select Community, Countryside Properties plc, David Jenkinson, ground rent, Jason Honeyman, Jennie Daly, John Dyer, Long Harbour, Mick Platt, Persimmon, Redrow, Richard Silva, Taylor Wimpey, Wallace Partnership Group

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LKP patron Sir Ed Davey returns to Parliament

LKP’s LibDem patron Sir Ed Davey was returned to Parliament at the election for the Conservative held seat Kingston and Surbiton. He rejoins Sir Peter Bottomley, Conservative, Worthing West, and Jim Fitzpatrick, Labour, Poplar and Limehouse, after having lost his seat in the 2015 election. LKP warmly welcomes the return to public life of Sir […]

Law Commission likely to end the exit and sublet fee payola

Leasehold exit and sublet fees have been referred to the Law Commission, which will almost certainly be the end of them. This means anyone selling or renting out a retirement or non-retirement flat should keep all documentation with a view to making a claim in two and half years time.

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Ground rent scandals

Dear Jeffrey Fairburn … Can I buy the freehold to a Persimmon house before you sell it to anonymous investors, please?

An excellent letter has been sent to Jeffrey Fairburn, the CEO of Persimmon Homes, which has built and sold more leasehold houses than any other developer. A potential buyer asked the Facebook National Leasehold Campaign whether he can buy the freehold to the house he wishes to buy, and copies the correspondence to housing minister Gavin […]

Pensioner paid £38,000 for Taylor Wimpey freehold to ground rent speculators E&J Capital Partners

(… and he paid another £4,000 in fees) A 79-year-old pensioner in Clitheroe paid £38,000 to buy the freehold to his Taylor Wimpey leasehold house to ground rent speculators E&J Capital Partners. He also paid out another £4,000 in legal and other fees: his own, and E&J’s. Now he has been told by Taylor Wimpey […]

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 […]

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Grenfell cladding

New Capital Quay leaseholders to sue Galliard over Grenfell cladding

This is the first site in England to begin legal action against its landlord and developer The action taken by the leaseholders is against Galliard Homes Ltd and the site’s landord Roamquest Ltd a firm owned in Galliard Holdings Ltd and NCQ Development Ltd which in turn is owned by Galliard Homes Ltd The leaseholders […]

Slough council takes Nova House leaseholders to tribunal over Grenfell cladding costs

We are only billing leaseholders for the fire marshals not Grenfell cladding removal, says Slough Council is understood to have bought the freehold to the stricken site for £1 – officially, a ‘nominal fee’ – off freehold investor Robert Steinhouse Liverpool debt collectors JB Leitch to take the tribunal action Leaseholders at Nova House which […]

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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 sells on Blythe Court, where ground rents reach £8,000 a year

Martin Paine and his wife Anne Kirmond have spent years as landlord causing distress to the leaseholds at Blythe Court and many other sites. LKP first broke the story of the Panie’s ground rent exploits in January 2016 despite warning letters from solicitors Taylor Emmet LLP. https://www.leaseholdknowledge.com/martin-paine Since this story, we have covered the activities […]

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