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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 Library’s excellent resume of leasehold problems will give MPs plenty of ideas for reform

The Commons library has done a superb job of spelling out the problems of leasehold. It is the first time we have seen a third party report into this sector with no regard to the disingenuous interventions from self-interested professionals, trade bodies, dubious “stakeholders” or compromised quangos. Its report, published yesterday and written by Wendy […]

MPs call for all-party group on leasehold, and to stop right to manage being thwarted

The Westminster meeting on Tuesday March 11 on right to manage organized by Leasehold Knowledge Partnership / Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation saw an all-party group on leasehold becoming more likely. The move would certainly be backed by Sir Peter Bottomley, Conservative Swindon MPs Justin Tomlinson and Robert Buckland, as well as Jim Fitzpatrick, Labour […]

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Election: Your chance to ask Theresa May about the leasehold scandals

LBC have invited people to email questions for Theresa May for the show at 7pm tomorrow. election@lbc.co.uk How about this for starters: Housebuilders are building exploitative leasehold houses and flats with outrageous lease terms, such as high and doubling ground rents. Many have been sold with taxpayers’ help through Help To Buy. Taylor Wimpey is […]

Surge in new-build leasehold houses with £1.9 billion sold last year

(Not to be reproduced without acknowledgement of the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership) Last year new build leasehold houses worth £1.9 billion were sold in England and Wales, according to data on the Land Registry. Since 2010 the number of new-build leasehold houses has doubled, while the total value of new-build leasehold houses has trebled. […]

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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Paddington Walk leaseholders have paid £3.5m to remove Grenfell cladding, with more to come …

Leaseholders at Paddington Walk have paid out £3.5 million to remove Grenfell cladding from the site, even though ministers have said leaseholders should not pay. An additional bill of £5.4 million is on the way, according to Inside Housing. The site was built in 2005 by European Land and Property, a joint venture development company […]

Fury in Manchester as Lendlease wins £160m contract to refurb city hall, while dumping Grenfell cladding costs on leaseholders

Anger has erupted in Manchester after Australian building group Lendlease was awarded a £330 million contract to refurbish the city hall – while declining to help remove Grenfell cladding from its private sites in the city. Lendlease refuses to contribute to remove cladding at two sites in Green Quarter, Vallea Court and Cypress Place which […]

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MPs back Leasehold Knowledge Partnership call to reform residents’ associations – drawn up by the man who won back £500,000 off Tchenguiz / Peverel

The Leasehold Knowledge Partnership has proposed changing the government regulations on the creation of residents’ associations, and has received widespread backing for the reform. The key changes that have been presented to Communities Secretary Eric Pickles are: That residents associations can be recognised with 50 per cent of qualifying residents plus one supporting the move, […]

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Affluent freehold-owning couple’s lease terms bring ruin to families who bought flats that are virtually worthless

An affluent couple living in the idyllic Cotswold village of Lower Slaughter are funding their lives through leasehold property cleverness that is costing poorer property buyers thousands of pounds. Martin Paine and his wife Margaret Anne Kirmond are benefiting from the sale of flats at Blythe Court in Coleshill, Birmingham, which have a trap […]

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

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