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Does Li Ka-shing own your Adriatic freehold, or Hutchison Whampoa, or billionaire Frank Sixt, or Astor? Only Long Harbour knows, and it’s not saying …

December 7, 2019 By admin 3 Comments

The secretive Long Harbour fund came under further scrutiny today, with an article in The Times on leasehold house owners in the north-west mounting a collective challenge for their freeholds. But who owns these freeholds, where the beneficial ownership is hidden behind nominee directors of a company secretary group headquartered in Jersey? Families challenge Long […]

Filed Under: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News Tagged With: CK Hutchison Holdings, Crosby Textor, Hutchison Whampoa, Li Ka-shing, Long Harbour, Sir Lynton Crosby, Sir Peter Bottomley, The Times, Viscount Astor, William Waldorf Astor

Families challenge Long Harbour for freeholds to Bellway leasehold houses, The Times reports

December 7, 2019 By admin Leave a Comment

Seventy families in Ellesmere Port in Cheshire are locked in a battle to gain the freeholds to their Bellway homes that were sold off to William Waldorf Astor’s secretive Long Harbour fund, The Times reports today. Katie Kendrick, co-founder of the National Leasehold Campaign and LKP trustee, has organised her neighbours to demand the freeholds. […]

Filed Under: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Press Tagged With: Adriatic Land, Katie Kendrick, Long Harbour, The Times, William Waldorf Astor

Can the Tories wriggle out of reforming leasehold? Don’t bet on it …

November 16, 2019 By admin 2 Comments

The Spectator questions the government’s commitment to reform leasehold, after dropping it from the Queen’s speech. Reforms had been pledged – three times now – but under Boris Johnson, the Conservative leaning magazine sees things slowing down. The article by the authoritative commentator Ross Clark says: “But Boris is believed to be less keen.     […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, Parliament Tagged With: Long Harbour, Ross Clark, Sir Lynton Crosby

Welsh policymakers back monetary ground rents while pondering ‘compulsory commonhold’

July 22, 2019 By Admin3

By Harry Scoffin Developers should continue to be able to profit from selling the freehold reversion, a report commissioned by the Welsh government has concluded. Although the UK government has recently re-committed to banning ground rents on new leases in England, ministers in Wales may still come out in favour of monetary ground rents. Housing […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News Tagged With: ARMA, Cassandra Zanelli, Commonhold, ground rents, Long Harbour, Wales

Ending ground rents will hurt leaseholders, says Long Harbour …

July 16, 2019 By admin

 … which won’t say who owns freeholds it manages  A last gasp effort to save ground rents was made by Long Harbour executive director Richard Silva in the recent issue of News on the Block. The scandal of onerous ground rents has been driving the call for reform while “only affecting a small fraction of […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, Press Tagged With: Long Harbour, News on the Block, Richard Silva

Long Harbour hits reverse on forfeiture to £800,000 flat over £400 ground rent … and JB Leitch halves its legal bill

June 10, 2019 By admin

Both Long Harbour and debt collectors JB Leitch hit reverse gear after a forfeiture threat to an £800,000 flat over a late £400 ground rent bill was raised publicly by the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership. And JB Leitch has now halved its £2,000 legal costs demand to £1,000. Millie Li, a Chinese citizen, visited China in […]

Filed Under: AdviceCaseStudies, Latest News, News, Sir Peter Bottomley, Slider2, William Waldorf Astor Tagged With: Bank of China, JB Leitch, Long Harbour, Nautilus House, Sir Peter Bottomley, Will Astor

Barking fire site is owned by anonymous investors in Adriatic Land

June 9, 2019 By admin

And what the balconies were like before the fire: LKP has been informed that the headlease owner of De Pass Gardens on Barking Riverside, which witnessed a serious fire today, is Adriatic Land 4. These companies are part of the £1.6 billion ground rent fund Long Harbour. The ultimate beneficial ownership of these freeholds / […]

Filed Under: Cladding crisis, Latest News, News, William Waldorf Astor Tagged With: Adriatic Land, Adriatic Land 4, Long Harbour, Sanne Group

Are hedge funds behind Long Harbour, asks Tory MP

March 5, 2019 By admin

Tory MP Stephen McPartland questioned last week whether investors in the ground rent ground fund Long Harbour are “hedge funds and speculators”. Long Harbour, founded by William Waldorf Astor, has claimed publicly that its £1.4 billion ground rent fund holders are pension funds, although ultimate beneficial ownership is always hidden and some of the assets, […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, Parliament, Press, William Waldorf Astor Tagged With: Adriatic Land, Long Harbour, Six Hills House, Stephen McPartland MP

Tchenguiz group says profiting from Grenfell cladding scandal would be ‘abhorrent’ and won’t happen

January 15, 2019 By admin

The Tchenguiz group has assured leaseholders that it would not redevelop a site made unviable by Grenfell cladding costs for its own gain. Leaseholders at Northpoint, in Bromley, south east London, had “expressed concern that we may seek to profit from leaseholders’ predicament, should they be forced to walk away from their leases, by carrying […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, Tchenguiz Tagged With: Bob Neill MP, Long Harbour, Northpoint, Pemberstone, Tchenguiz, The Guardian, William Kenneth Procter

Pull the other one, Vincent! Leasehold reform hasn’t stuffed Fairhold. It was downgraded in 2015 …

January 3, 2019 By admin

  In today’s Financial Times interview, Vincent Tchenguiz says the sale of his Fairhold Securitisation Limited has collapsed because of buyers’ concerns over government reforms to leasehold. Vincent Tchenguiz pushes back on UK leasehold reform Property tycoon Vincent Tchenguiz is lobbying against proposed changes to the leasehold system that his company says threaten “unintended detrimental […]

Filed Under: Cladding crisis, Latest News, News, Press, Tchenguiz Tagged With: Citiscape, Financial Times, Long Harbour, Moody's, Vincent Tchenguiz, Wallace Partnership Group, William Kenneth Procter

Anonymous freeholders are the reliable long-term custodians of blocks of flats, Select Committee is told

November 24, 2018 By admin

And sector offers up yet another ‘code of practice’, this time for freeholders (whoever they may be when hidden offshore) One of the greatest fictions of the leasehold sector is that freeholders – even anonymous offshore ones – are the only reliable long-term stewards of a block of flats. The leasehold owners would be incapable, […]

Filed Under: Communities Select Committee, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Parliament, William Waldorf Astor Tagged With: Abacus Land 4 Limited, ARMA, British Property Federation, Heysmoor Heights, John Dyer, Long Harbour, Louise Ellman MP, Mick Platt, Nigel Glen, Richard Silva, Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi MP, Wallace Partnership Group

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

Long Harbour lobby MP Kate Osamor bars leasehold activist from Twitter feed

November 2, 2018 By admin

Corbynite Labour MP Kate Osamor, who asked a series of parliamentary questions on behalf of residential freehold fund Long Harbour, has barred a prominent leasehold activist from her Twitter feed. Baz Jafar, a doubling ground rent leaseholder, found he was blocked from his Edmonton MP’s official Twitter feed yesterday after raising the issue of the […]

Filed Under: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Parliament, William Waldorf Astor Tagged With: Baz Jafar, Countryside Properties plc, Crosby Textor, ground rents, Kate Osamor MP, Long Harbour, Pagefield, Will Astor

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

October 22, 2018 By admin

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 […]

Filed Under: Cladding crisis, Latest News, News, William Waldorf Astor Tagged With: Long Harbour, Tchenguiz, Will Astor

Private Eye identifies yet another murky offshore landlord, Vuillard Holdings Limited, with Grenfell cladding

October 4, 2018 By admin

“Snakes and cladders” is Private Eye’s headline revealing Vuillard Holdings Limited as the latest landlord with Grenfell cladding on site. Owned by shy proprietors David and Patrick Kennedy, it owns the freehold of Victoria Wharf, two sites Limehouse in East London, where leaseholders have so far “been forced” to pay £165,000 for fire wardens. LKP […]

Filed Under: Cladding crisis, Latest News, News, Press, William Waldorf Astor Tagged With: Abacus Land 4 Limited, Blenheim Centre, David Kennedy, Heysmoor Heights, Long Harbour, Patrick Kennedy, Private Eye, Reflexions, Victoria Wharf, Vuillard Holdings Limited, Will Astor

Kate Osamor MP asks parliamentary questions for Long Harbour on ground rents, says Daily Telegraph

September 18, 2018 By admin

Labour frontbencher Kate Osamor asking a series of parliamentary questions on behalf of ground rent speculators lifts the lid on lobbying for the sector. Miss Osamor, the shadow international development secretary, submitted six questions drafted by lobbyists Pagefield acting for the £1.6 billion Long Harbour fund, the Daily Telegraph has claimed. LKP has contacted Labour’s […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, Parliament, William Waldorf Astor Tagged With: Kate Osamor MP, Long Harbour

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… Or help perpetuate what is already wrong with it? – Government should underwrite retirement flat purchases like Help To Buy scheme – There should not be any stamp duty when downsizing – Schemes where some service charges are deferred until a property is sold should be ‘made available more widely’ – Retirement accommodation offers huge savings over maintaining family […]

Tory MP Eddie Hughes moves private member’s bill to cap existing ground rents at £250

By Harry Scoffin Eddie Hughes, the Conservative Member of Parliament for Walsall North, launched a crackdown on ground rents in the Commons today. Ground Rents (Leasehold Properties) includes one of the Communities Select Committee’s headline proposals: regulating existing leases to have ground rents set at 0.1 per cent of the present value of a property, up […]

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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 […]

Buyers would have ignored ground rent clauses even if we had told them, says conveyancer Rob Hailstone

Buyers have themselves to blame, not solicitors, over leaseholds, say conveyancers – Legal Futures Conveyancers have hit back at suggestions they should have prevented the scandal of new homes being sold as leasehold properties with rapidly escalating ground rents, which the government announced plans to ban last week. Rob Hailstone, chief executive and founder of […]

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 […]

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Grenfell cladding

Sajid Javid calls for Grenfell cladding round table with developers and freeholders … and LKP will be invited

Communities Secretary Said Javid called today for a Grenfell cladding round table with developers and ground rent speculators … and LKP will be invited to attend. Mr Javid also repeated to the Commons his hope that freeholders and developers take more responsibility for the cladding, which is threatening financial ruin to thousands of families. The […]

Will Heysmoor Heights leaseholders lose their homes to anonymous offshore freeholder if they cannot pay Grenfell bills?

Will Astor asked whether he has beneficial interest in Abacus Land 4 Limited   The anonymous world of offshore ownership in the leasehold sector is placed in sharp relief by families facing £18,000 demands to remove Grenfell cladding and pay for fire marshals at Heysmoor Heights, in Toxteth in Liverpool. The freeholder is Abacus Land […]

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When leaseholders unite …

Officials fail to stop LKP publishing legal opinions on flawed reform of Recognised Tenants’ Associations (RTAs)

A last minute attempt to stop LKP from publishing three legal opinions extremely critical of the government’s bungled reform to Recognised Tenants’ Associations failed last week. The government introduced a statutory instrument in October that has actually made the position of leaseholders worse. The failing was referenced in the Commons by Sir Peter Bottomley with […]

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Martin Paine ‘is a crook who is turning sleaze in leases into an art form’, MPs told

Sir Peter Bottomley (Conservative, Worthing West) named the leasehold-gameplayer Martin Paine as a “crook” in the Commons yesterday. “We should not have to rely on the chance action of a campaigning charity such as LKP [the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership] or  the Campaign Against Retirement Leasehold Exploitation—or a passing Member of Parliament, to get things put […]

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