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Will Law Commission bring in the ‘seismic changes’ that leasehold needs?

April 24, 2018 By admin

Louie Burns, the MD of Leasehold Solutions, has questioned whether the Law Commission’s examination of lease extension and enfranchisement will bring about the “seismic changes” that are needed. Mr Burns has criticised the “vague platitudes” of the Law Commission, which set out its terms of reference at the end of last week for its Residential […]

Filed Under: Latest News, Law Commission, Louie Burns, News, Press Tagged With: Law Commission, Leasehold Solutions, Louie Burns, PropertyIndustryEye

Leasehold Roadshow heads for Leeds on February 27

February 2, 2018 By admin

The Leasehold Roadshow, which has made several tours of the North West, is heading for Leeds on February 27. The Leasehold Roadshow will be held at the Mercure Leeds Parkway Hotel, Otley Road, Leeds LS16 8AG from 10am to 6pm on Tuesday, February 27. To register: Leeds 2018 | The Leasehold Roadshow | Free info […]

Filed Under: Louie Burns, News, Press Tagged With: Leasehold Solutions, Louie Burns

Has Taylor Wimpey done just enough to avoid being successfully sued?

September 14, 2017 By admin

Taylor Wimpey’s deal with Adriatic Land to vary doubling ground rents to those linked with RPI are the minimum it could do to prevent being sued. Extending the deal even to those who have bought these leases on resale – ie not directly from Taylor Wimpey – covers that issue as well. But one hitch […]

Filed Under: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, Louie Burns, News Tagged With: Adriatic Land, Leasehold Law, Leasehold Solutions, Taylor Wimpey

Developer recommended solicitors could face £500m bill, says Daily Mail

April 22, 2017 By admin

The same small number of legal firms recommended by developers when selling properties with onerous ground rent terms could face legal bills of up to £500m, says the Daily Mail. Many buyers were lured by discounts on purchase prices and on legal fees for using the recommended solicitors. Louie Burns, of Leasehold Solutions, was quoted […]

Filed Under: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Press, Taylor Wimpey Tagged With: Daily Mail, Leasehold Solutions, Louie Burns, Sebastian O’Kelly

Ask Louie Burns: The leasehold houses scandal and what you can do about it

April 4, 2017 By admin

Louie Burns, of Leasehold Solutions, here gives his assessment of the leasehold houses scandal and advice on what you can do about it. LKP unhesitatingly recommends that leasehold house owners contact Louie Burns, who has a proven track record of working with leaseholders to resolve their problems. He speaks frequently at sector events and is […]

Filed Under: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Redrow Tagged With: ALEP, leasehold houses, Leasehold Law, Leasehold Solutions, Louie Burns, Mari Knowles

Ground rent strike ‘a very real possibility,’ reports Daily Telegraph

March 13, 2017 By admin

Please fill in survey on leasehold house scandal and onerous ground rents for presentation at All Party Parliamentary Group meeting, March 22  The Daily Telegraph ran a powerful article by journalist Emma Lunn on the leasehold houses scandal on Saturday airing the possibility of a nationwide “ground rent strike”. The notion was aired by Sebastian O’Kelly, […]

Filed Under: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Press, Taylor Wimpey Tagged With: APPG, Help To Buy, Justin Madders MP, Leasehold Law, Leasehold Solutions, Louie Burns, Mari Knowles, Sebastian O’Kelly, Taylor Wimpey, The Daily Telegraph

Questions from APPG attendees: Ground rent sale prices have risen tenfold since 2007

December 16, 2016 By admin

A number of key figures in leasehold were in the audience of the All Party Parliamentary Group and several asked questions. Ground rent sale prices have risen ten-fold since 2007 David Thomas, CEO of Barratt Developments In the North East and in the North West houses have traditionally been sold leasehold whether on the second […]

Filed Under: APPG December 14 2016, Conveyancing Association, MPs' APPG on leasehold Tagged With: Barratt, Beth Rudolf, Cherry Jones, Conveyancing Association, David Thomas, Leasehold Law, Leasehold Solutions, Louie Burns, Mari Knowles

Taylor Wimpey ground rent explanation ‘not true’, BBC is told

November 24, 2016 By admin

The Taylor Wimpey ground rent scandal featured on BBC R4’s influential You & Yours programme yesterday. But its explanation that doubling ground rents compared to those linked to RPI amounted to “slightly less than 1% of the average sales value of the property” was dismissed as “not true”. The programme interviewed first-time buyer Clair Scott, […]

Filed Under: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Press, Taylor Wimpey Tagged With: BBC, Clair Scott, E & J Capital Partners, Leasehold Solutions, Louie Burns, Taylor Wimpey, You and Yours

Sunday Telegraph says ‘New homes, yes, but not leasehold’

November 20, 2016 By admin

The Sunday Telegraph today questions whether the government’s £3 billion boost to house building should be for leasehold houses and flats. Further measures are expected to be announced on Wednesday. The article, by Fleet Street veteran Liz Hodgkinson, writes: “In spite of attempts to reform the sector in revent years, critics say it is getting […]

Filed Under: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Persimmon, Press Tagged With: Leasehold Solutions, Liz Hodgkinson, Louie Burns, The Sunday Telegraph

Informal lease extensions are pure poison!

August 2, 2016 By admin

  Negotiating with freeholders to get an informal lease extension deal is utter madness for most leaseholders. You can trash the value of your flat with a bargain offer that seems too good to refuse … and for lawyers a quick deal is easy money, with no repercussions (for them). Louie Burns, of Leasehold Solutions, distils […]

Filed Under: Informal lease extension, Latest News, Lease Extension, Louie Burns, News Tagged With: informal lease extension, lease extension, Leasehold Solutions, Louie Burns

The dirty tricks played with formal lease extensions

August 1, 2016 By admin

    Louie Burns, of Leasehold Solutions, has written on the LKP website about the cheating played by freeholders with informal lease extensions. Here he turns his attention to the minefield of dealing with your freeholder to get a formal lease extension. Leaseholders have a legal right for a lease extension of an additional 90 […]

Filed Under: Latest News, Lease Extension, Louie Burns, News Tagged With: lease extension, Leasehold Solutions, Louie Burns

Spreading Paine: the freeholds owned by Martin Paine and his wife (Margaret) Anne Kirmond

March 9, 2016 By admin

Below are freeholds from the Land Registry featuring properties owned by companies belonging to Martin Paine and / or his wife Margaret Anne Kirmond. They appear to own the freeholds of 444 flats, and other assets on leases such as garages. The freehold owning companies are Mercia Property Investments Limited, F.t.z. Limited and Chamber Estates Limited. We […]

Filed Under: Martin Paine Tagged With: Chamber Estates Limited, Circle Residential Management Limited, F.t.z. Limited, Leasehold Solutions, Margaret Anne Kirmond, Martin Paine, Mercia Investment Properties Limited

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LKP chair Martin Boyd and Sir Peter Bottomley attended a meeting at Number 10 yesterday to urge government to overturn its flawed statutory instrument to reform recognised tenants’ associations. The MHCLG announced changes in October and made the existing arrangements even worse for leaseholders. The key hurdle faced by leaseholders is to contact their leasehold-owning […]

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The influential Labour MP Stella Creasy singled out the work of colleagues Jim Fitzpatrick and Sir Peter Bottomley on leasehold reform in an interview with Andrew Marr on BBC TV yesterday. The MP said reforming leasehold and other social issues were just the tasks MPs should be engaged in during this Parliament. The section can […]

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Taylor Wimpey to pay £130 million to solve doubling ground rent scandal

Taylor Wimpey has announced that it is putting aside £130 million to resolve the doubling ground rent scandal. The announcement was made this morning on the eve of Taylor Wimpey’s annual general meeting in London today. Sir Peter Bottomley and Jim Fitzpatrick MPs were contacted by Taylor Wimpey CEO last night. They have been invited […]

Sunday Times reports Taylor Wimpey ground rent scandal, as executives meet leaseholders

The Taylor Wimpey ground rent scandal featured in the Sunday Times yesterday, as it emerges that executives are being sent out to visit the complaining leaseholders. The article was in the form of a reader’s letter from a £130,000 leasehold house owner in Bolton facing doubling ground rents from an initial £250. Garry Evans says […]

The Sun attacks ‘fatcat’ housebuilders with inflated fortunes thanks to Help To Buy

Fatcat boss involved in leasehold scandal lives in one of his company’s newbuild homes A FATCAT boss involved in the leasehold scandal lives in one of his company’s newbuild homes. But he has avoided the rip-off ground rent fees that have ruined the lives of other homebuyers. Ted Ayres, chief executive of property giant Bellway, […]

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Tchenguiz group dismisses government ‘hollow threat’ to make freeholders pay for Grenfell cladding removal

But hints that it would have liked to help, if only the ‘existential threat’ of leasehold reforms were dropped … The Tchenguiz organisation has said that the government should stop demanding that freeholders pay to remove Grenfell cladding from 272 private apartment blocks. It is a “hollow threat and it knows it”, says William Kenneth […]

Brokenshire tells freeholders to pay up to remove Grenfell cladding. But how can that work?

The government is persisting with its argument that “building owners” must pay up to remove Grenfell cladding from their sites – even though the law has said that they don’t pay, leaseholders do. The statement today from Communities Secretary James Brokenshire says: “Local authorities will get the government’s full backing, including financial support if necessary, […]

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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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