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Countrywide ‘ripping off’ leaseholders, MP tells Commons. And it is given the boot by Bovis Homes

December 6, 2014 By admin

– Property management company accused of stalling hand-over of residents’ management companies – Bovis Homes is ejecting Countrywide from Swindon sites and is not appointing it at future ones – And … Countrywide declines to confirm whether it is applying to join ARMA-Q Justin Tomlinson (left), Conservative MP for North Swindon, has accused Countrywide of […]

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– Commons urged to back amendment to abolish leasehold by 2020 in favour of commonhold – Tchenguiz, Peverel and Cirrus get another Commons naming – McCarthy and Stone told to explain collapsed second-hand values of retirement flats – Leasehold Knowledge Partnership praised, and thanked for reasonably accurate figures for leasehold sector Labour MP and LKP […]

Housebuilder Bob Bessell says ‘no justification for ground rents at all’

Bob Bessell, founder of retirement housebuilder Retirement Security, told the All Party Parliamentary Group that he has never charged ground rents. His company, based in Stratford on Avon and founded in 1985, has built 1,600 retirement flats around the country at 30 sites. “I started as a social worker and I had to invent things […]

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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 […]

John Lewis Partnership Pensions Trust tells leaseholder it will ‘disinvest’ in doubling ground rents

Portfolio managed by the Tchenguiz interests The John Lewis Partnership Pensions Trust has told a leaseholder that it will ‘disinvest’ in doubling ground rents, which were brought to its attention by ‘a lobbying group’ – LKP. Sean Greenwood, whose wife bought a Taylor Wimpey flat in Dudley, West Midlands, with doubling ground rent raised the […]

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

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 […]

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Grenfell cladding

Post-Grenfell: The sheer lunacy of doling out state aid to residential freehold speculators

COMMENT This week sees the publication of the first Grenfell Inquiry Report. It will inevitably be a harrowing document to read. The impact of that disaster rolls on both for those who survived the experience, and for tens of thousands of others who still live in blocks that have various forms of cladding. This issue […]

House of Commons briefing to MPs on Grenfell Cladding: contact LKP

The House of Commons Library today advises MPs and constituents to contact LKP – as well as the Leasehold Advisory Service, which has received extra funding to deal with the issue. The policy is rather different to government’s: LKP has briefed civil servants and advisors numerous times over this issue. But it has never advised […]

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When leaseholders unite …

Civil service are fired up to reform leasehold, helped by the ‘personal commitment’ of the Secretary of State … Er

APPG, April 26 Both the MHCLG civil service and the Law Commission are genuinely enthused to reform the leasehold sector and moving fast to do so, encouraged by the Communities Secretary. This was the message of John Hall, director at the MHCLG, who was speaking on April 26 before the promotion of Sajid Javid to […]

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Martin Paine demanded ground rents of thousands from two London leaseholders

  [pro_ad_display_adzone id=”11520″ popup=”1″ delay=”7″ exit_popup=”1″ popup_opacity=”0.3″]It is not just Blythe Court … two London leasehold owners also faced demands of thousands of pounds in unexpected ground rents after purchasing flats in different parts of the capital. The leaseholders came forward following the publication last month by the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership of the issues at […]

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