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APPG meets for last time this Parliament, with sadness as Jim Fitzpatrick stands down

October 29, 2019 By admin

Just as it was announced this morning that the Labour Party would vote for a December election, the annual general meeting of the APPG on leasehold and commonhold reform began. Jim Fitzpatrick, the APPG co-chair, was delayed in the chamber – although he attended the meeting with the Financial Conduct Authority on leasehold insurance commissions […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, Parliament Tagged With: Chi Onwurah MP, Fiona Bruce MP, Jim Fitzpatrick, Justin Madders MP, Lord Lytton, Mike Amesbury MP, Rosie Cooper MP, Sir Peter Bottomley

‘Absolutely repugnant’ to make leaseholders pick up tab for deadly cladding, says Bob Blackman MP

October 18, 2019 By Admin3

… And veteran Clive Betts, chair of Communities Select Committee, leads laments to absence of leasehold in Queen’s speech  By Harry Scoffin Bob Blackman MP raged at the self-serving nature of third-party freeholders in the Commons earlier this week. In a debate on the Queen’s Speech, the Harrow West MP demanded that “freeholders take responsibility” […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, Parliament Tagged With: Bob Blackman MP, Clive Betts MP, Communities Select Committee, Grenfell cladding, Justin Madders MP

LKP meets Competition and Markets Authority over leasehold house mis-selling

September 11, 2019 By admin

The Competition and Markets Authority was given LKP’s insight into the leasehold houses mis-selling scandal yesterday. The meeting was hosted by LKP patrons and APPG co-chairs MPs Sir Peter Bottomley and Jim Fitzpatrick and Justin Madders, the deputy APPG chair on leasehold reform. Mr Madders, a solicitor, has spoken out many times about the mis-selling […]

Filed Under: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News Tagged With: Competition and Markets Authority, George Lusty, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Justin Madders MP, Simon Jones, Sir Peter Bottomley

Mass email dump: leasehold home owners demand their freeholds after Persimmon caves into court action

September 6, 2019 By admin

More than 700 emails jammed the mailboxes of house builder chief executives this week as leasehold house owners demanded the freeholds to their homes. The protest came after Persimmon caved in to a trading standards action in Cardiff last month. Leasehold house buyers at the St Edeyrn’s Village development in Cardiff claimed Persimmon sales staff […]

Filed Under: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Persimmon Tagged With: David Jenkinson, David Thomas, Justin Madders MP, Mark Francois MP, Persimmon, Robert Halfon Mp, Siobhain McDonagh MP

If government co-operated we could fix the leasehold scandal, says Labour MP Justin Madders

July 25, 2019 By admin

Commons debate, July 11 Asking developers like Redrow to put things right is not enough, Justin Madders, the Labour MP for Ellesmere Port and Neston, told the Commons: it needs enforcement. And if government co-operated the leasehold scandal could be fixed. Mr Madders cited the example of a Redrow site in the constituency where houses […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, Parliament Tagged With: Competition and Markets Authority, Justin Madders MP, Redrow

Number 10 chief of staff Gavin Barwell ‘delighted’ to be invited to present award to LKP

July 16, 2019 By admin

The Leasehold Knowledge Partnership was presented with a prestigious award by the All Party Parliamentary Group for leasehold and commonhold reform, which represents 171 MPs. Former housing minister Gavin Barwell, the current chief of staff of Number 10, was to have presented the award to Sebastian O’Kelly, LKP chief executive, and to Martin Boyd, the […]

Filed Under: APPG, Latest News, News Tagged With: Jim Fitzpatrick MP, John Healey MP, Justin Madders MP, Martin Boyd, Sarah Jones MP, Sebastian O’Kelly, Sir Peter Bottomley

Justin Madders MP endorses the National Leasehold Campaign trio for prestigious Women in Housing Awards

May 28, 2019 By Admin3

By Harry Scoffin The National Leasehold Campaign has received a boost with today’s news that Justin Madders MP, co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Leasehold and Commonhold Reform, has recommended that its three leaders be recognised at the upcoming Women in Housing Awards. Organised by Inside Housing, the ceremony will be held at Emirates […]

Filed Under: Justin Madders MP, Latest News, News Tagged With: Cath Williams, Jo Darbyshire, Justin Madders MP, Katie Kendrick, National Leasehold Campaign

‘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

Law Commission meets leaseholders in Manchester

November 5, 2018 By admin

But will its reforms help 100,000 trapped in unsellable homes? The Law Commissioner Professor Nicholas Hopkins and his five-strong team came to Manchester yesterday to address 120 leaseholders organised by LKP and the National Leasehold Campaign group. He was joined by Justin Madders, Labour MP for Ellesmere Port and Neston, an official from the DHCLG […]

Filed Under: Latest News, Law Commission, National Leasehold Campaign, News Tagged With: Cath Williams, Joanne Darbyshire, Justin Madders MP, Katie Kendrick, Law Commission, Professor Nick Hopkins, Robert Godfrey, Simpson Millar

Justin Madders Bill: 10x annual ground rent and the freehold is yours … Anyone got a problem with that?

October 26, 2018 By admin

Justin Madders, the Labour MP for Ellesmere Port and Neston, has unveiled his Bill to short-circuit the smokes and mirrors calculations of the leasehold sector and allow leaseholders to buy their freeholds for 10x annual ground rent. The Bill – in the extraordinary event that it is accepted – will render further Law Commission consultation […]

Filed Under: Justin Madders MP, Latest News, News, Parliament Tagged With: Justin Madders MP

Law Commissioner wants to meet YOU: November 3

October 5, 2018 By admin

The Law Commissioner Professor Nick Hopkins is to address leaseholders on reforms to leasehold in Manchester on Saturday November 3, with an event in London to be announced shortly. Professor Hopkins will be discussing the Law Commission’s consultation paper setting out proposals that aim to make buying your freehold or extending your lease simpler, easier, […]

Filed Under: Justin Madders MP, Latest News, Law Commission, News Tagged With: Andy Burnham, Cath Williams, Jo Darbyshire, Justin Madders MP, Katie Kendrick, Law Commission, Louie Burns, Martin Boyd, Professor Nicholas Hopkins, Sebastian O’Kelly

MPs turn out in force to welcome leaseholder demonstrators at Westminster

July 18, 2018 By admin

MPs turned out in force this morning to meet leasehold demonstrators organised by the National Leasehold Campaign, most of who arrived by coach from the North West. Sir Peter Bottomley and Jim Fitzpatrick, patrons of LKP and co-chairs of the APPG on leasehold reform, were on hand, as was Justin Madders, the deputy chair who […]

Filed Under: Ground rent scandal, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Latest News, National Leasehold Campaign, News Tagged With: Cath Williams, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Joanne Darbyshire, John Healey MP, Justin Madders MP, Katie Kendrick, Sarah Jones MP, Sir Peter Bottomley

National housebuilders ‘sold an illusion’ of home ownership, says Justin Madders MP

May 20, 2018 By admin

MP urges housebuilder CEOs to be hauled before the Communities Select Committee Do any of the plc housebuilder CEOs ACTUALLY live in their leasehold products? The government is talking tough about sorting out the leasehold scandal – which has put the lives of at 100,000 homeowners on hold – but those who introduced these toxic […]

Filed Under: Justin Madders MP, Latest News, News, Parliament Tagged With: Justin Madders MP, Pete Redfern, Taylor Wimpey

Gleeson CEO Jolyon Harrison responds over ‘fleasehold’ row and asks Justin Madders for an apology

May 17, 2018 By admin

LKP raised questions earlier today with Gleeson Homes over the “fleasehold” row sparked by Justin Madders’s speech in the Commons on Tuesday. That article can be read in full below: Gleeson won’t sell leasehold houses, but freehold ones come with ‘fleasehold’ covenants, says Justin Madders The response comes from Gleeson Homes CEO Jolyon Harrison. LKP […]

Filed Under: Gleeson Homes, Latest News, News, Parliament Tagged With: Gleeson Homes, Jolyon Harrison, Justin Madders MP

Gleeson won’t sell leasehold houses, but freehold ones come with ‘fleasehold’ covenants, says Justin Madders

May 17, 2018 By admin

Gleeson, the housebuilder that publicly disapproved of rip-off leasehold houses, was identified in the Commons on Tuesday for introducing a raft of “fleasehold” covenants into its freehold ones. Justin Madders, Labour MP for Ellesmere Port and Neston, who is deputy chair of the APPG on leasehold reform, spoke out about how “rancid the whole business” […]

Filed Under: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News Tagged With: Fleasehold, Fleecehold, Gleeson Homes, Justin Madders MP

LEASE chair Roger Southam launched complaint to Parliamentary Standards Commissioner against Sir Peter Bottomley and Jim Fitzpatrick (and LKP, naturally enough)

March 8, 2018 By admin

‘Why was I left out?’ asks Sir Ed Davey Roger Southam, the chairman of the Leasehold Advisory Service, issued a complaint to the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner about Sir Peter Bottomley and Jim Fitzpatrick He added LKP in the official complaint, in its role as secretariat of the All Party Parliamentary Group. “I am disappointed not […]

Filed Under: Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Latest News, LEASE, News, Sir Ed Davey Tagged With: Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Justin Madders MP, Parliamentary Standards Commissioner, Roger South, Sir Ed Davey, Sir Peter Bottomley, Winifred Robinson

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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 […]

Gleeson CEO Jolyon Harrison responds over ‘fleasehold’ row and asks Justin Madders for an apology

LKP raised questions earlier today with Gleeson Homes over the “fleasehold” row sparked by Justin Madders’s speech in the Commons on Tuesday. That article can be read in full below: Gleeson won’t sell leasehold houses, but freehold ones come with ‘fleasehold’ covenants, says Justin Madders The response comes from Gleeson Homes CEO Jolyon Harrison. LKP […]

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Ground Rents Income Fund plc offers help to leaseholders … in order to keep this grisly show on the road

The publicly quoted Ground Rents Income Fund plc says it will help some leaseholders with doubling ground rents. The initiative is a desperate effort to get government off its back and to ensure speculation in the freeholds of ordinary people’s homes can continue. Its statement is here 11 per cent of the fund, which has […]

Would you choose a good night out, or 500 freehold acres of Mayfair and Belgravia?

The low-born woman who made the Duke of Westminster’s fortune Today’s article in the Financial Times prompts this historical footnote. The FT quite rightly highlights the Court of Appeal action of chartered surveyor James Wyatt, of Parthenia Limited, who is challenging the mathematical calculation of values in lease extensions. If he wins the case, and […]

Leaseholders to stage ground rent demo at Redrow’s Ledsham Garden Village

This Saturday leaseholders will stage a two-hour demonstration outside the sales suite of Redrow’s Ledsham Garden Village in Cheshire where the builder is flogging leasehold houses. The proposed action is reported in the Chester Chronicle here  The protest has been organised by the Facebook group the National Leasehold Campaign, whose 2,300 membership is mainly from […]

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Grenfell cladding

Grenfell cladding debate: Who thinks offshore freeholders will pay (apart from government ministers)?

– Government should retrospectively ensure leaseholders are a legal party to insurance and warranties – Identify offshore freeholders demanding huge sums of money, MP demands – Get freeholders in front of Communities Select Committee – Waive VAT on cladding replacement costs, says Bottomley – Steve Reed MP: ‘No other country in the European Union permits […]

Leaseholders and freeholder of evacuated Manchester block win £10.8m insurer payout for ‘serious defects’

By Harry Scoffin A freeholder and his leaseholders secured victory at the Court of Appeal last week, with the insurer ordered to pay a £10.8m bill for works to make a Manchester development safe. Although the faults pre-date Grenfell, it is the first court case win for private leaseholders over safety and structural defects since […]

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When leaseholders unite …

Recognised Tenants’ Association review – Part III

In this section, we look at the results of an experimental test of the RTA SI to see how it might work in practice. We then go on to draw conclusions from all three papers. A test of the RTA SI We have been able to use the leaseholders at the Charter Quay (CQ) site […]

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BBC R4’s You & Yours feature Blythe Court … and now the freeholder wants ‘more ethical approach to charges’

  The scandalous ground rent charges at Blythe Court featured on BBC Radio 4’s You & Yours programme just before 1pm today. It can be heard here at 31.43 Leaseholders at the site were interviewed, including Kadian Kennelly, 32, and Patrick Majszyk, 32. Sir Peter Bottomley said he was still seeking explanation from the site’s […]

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