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Major works

Florrie’s Law fails again as Haringey council dumps £100,000 bills on leaseholders in the midst of the Covid-19 disaster

Category: Latest News, Local authority leasehold, NewsTag: Covid-19, Florrie's law, Harry Scoffin, Homes for Haringey, Local authority leasehold, Major works, Section 20, The Guardian

Housing associations furious at government’s 10-year repair-free offer to new shared owners

Category: Latest News, News, Shared ownershipTag: A2Dominion, Ballymore, Brendan Sarsfield, City Wharf Hoxton, Eric Pickles, Florence Bourne, Florrie's law, Harry Scoffin, Housing associations, Initial repair period, Local authority leasehold, Major works, Notting Hill Genesis, Optivo, Paul Hackett, Peabody, Section 20, Shared ownership, Shula Rich, Wardian London

Susan Bright Grenfell

Building Safety Bill means … leaseholders are going to have to pay a lot of money to clear up the mess of other people

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Building Safety Bill, Building safety reform, Building safety regulator, Cladding scandal, Dame Judith Hackitt, Major works, MHCLG, Neil O’Connor, Professor Susan Bright

Is ‘Chapman’ the new ‘Daejan’?

Category: Latest News, News, Property tribunalTag: Asphalt, Aster Group, Aster v Chapman, Daejan v Benson, Housing associations, Joshua Dubin, Legal costs, Lord Neuberger, Major works, Section 20, Section 20ZA, Section 27A, Surveyor costs

Andover asphalt major works war sees landlord forced to pay for leaseholders’ expert

Category: Latest News, News, Property tribunalTag: Asphalt, Aster Group, Covid-19, Daejan v Benson, Giles Peaker, Harry Scoffin, Housing associations, Joshua Dubin, Judge Stuart Bridge, Kingsway Gardens, Legal costs, Lord Neuberger, Lord Sumption, Lord Wilson, Major works, Nearly Legal, Property tribunal, Section 20, Section 20ZA, Surveyor costs, Tanfield Chambers, Upper-tier Tribunal

An open letter to Robert Jenrick: the costs of delayed leasehold reform

Category: Cladding scandal, Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, Housing associations, Latest News, Law Commission, Local authority leasehold, MHCLG, NewsTag: Cladding scandal, CMA, DCLG, Eric Pickles, Florrie's law, Grant Shapps, Housing associations, James Brokenshire MP, Law Commission, LEASE, Major works, Martin Boyd, MHCLG, Notting Hill Genesis, OFT, Robert Jenrick, Sajid Javid, Section 20, Shared ownership

Academic bars Oxford City Council from entering his flat to finish major works

Category: Justin Bates, Latest News, Local authority leasehold, NewsTag: Building safety reform, Dame Judith Hackitt, Fire safety, Giles Peaker, Harry Scoffin, Joshua Dubin, Justin Bates, Local authority leasehold, Major works, Oxford City Council, Professor Susan Bright, Section 20

John Christodoulou side-steps £4m ‘dou-dou’ at Beetham Tower, where leaseholders face bills of £40,000 each as the works begin

Category: Canary Riverside, John Christodoulou, Latest News, News, West India QuayTag: 25% rule, Beetham Tower, Canary Riverside, Canary Riverside Estate Management Limited, Ground rents, Ground Rents Income Fund plc, John Christodoulou, Major works, Section 20, West India Quay

Emma Lunn Help To Buy

Right-to-buy owners are also being ripped off by the leasehold system, The Guardian reports

Category: Latest News, Local authority leasehold, News, PressTag: Emma Lunn, Harry Scoffin, Local authority leasehold, Major works, Michelle Baharier, Section 20, The Guardian

Lawyers offer pro bono aid to leaseholder facing QC in £24,000 dispute in Upper Tribunal

Category: Justin Bates, Latest News, Law Commission, Local authority leasehold, LVT/Property Chamber Survival, News, Philip Rainey QC, Property tribunalTag: Harriet Harman MP, James Brokenshire MP, Justin Bates, Major works, Mari Knowles, Michelle Baharier, Philip Rainey QC, Section 20, Southwark Council

Michelle Baharier Philip Rainey QC

Southwark litigant-in-person leaseholder faces wipe-out after £24,000 tribunal victory. Council now deploys ‘shock and awe’ QC …

Category: Advice Case Study Disasters, Local authority leasehold, News, Philip Rainey QC, Property tribunalTag: Harriet Harman MP, Major works, Michelle Baharier, Philip Rainey QC, Property tribunal, Section 20, Southwark Council

Oxford Council leaseholders have repair bills slashed from £50,000 to under £4,000

Category: Latest News, Local authority leasehold, NewsTag: Major works, Oxford City Council, Oxford Mail, Section 20

Oxford leaseholders win first round against £60,000 major works bills

Category: Latest News, Local authority leasehold, News, PressTag: Major works, Oxford City Council, Section 20

Southwark council leaseholders see major works bill slashed from £17,000 to £8,000

Category: Latest News, Local authority leasehold, News, PressTag: Local authority leasehold, Major works, Section 20, Southwark, Southwark News

Oxford council leaseholders each facing £50,000 bills head for the courts

Category: Latest News, Local authority leasehold, NewsTag: Local authority leasehold, Major works, Oxford City Council

Uproar in Oxford as 50 council leaseholders face bills of £50,000 each

Category: Latest News, Local authority leasehold, NewsTag: Major works, Oxford City Council

George Osborne’s former nanny faces £100,000 bills and loss of home

Category: Forfeiture, HomeSlider, Local authority leasehold, News, Property tribunalTag: Farieda Chandoo, Forfeiture, George Osborne, Major works, Property tribunal, Section 20, Southwark

Daejan v Benson: ‘on the whole good for landlords’

Category: NewsTag: Daejan v Benson, James Souter, John de Waal, Major works, Natasha Rees, Section 20, Section 20ZA

Supreme Court ruling on Daejan v Benson gives freeholders the whip-hand and is ‘a judgment that tenants might consider disappointing’

Category: News, Philip Rainey QC, Property tribunalTag: Daejan v Benson, Major works, Philip Rainey QC, Property tribunal, Section 20, Section 20ZA, Supreme Court

Epic leasehold battle ends with victory of freeholder in the Supreme Court

Category: News, Philip Rainey QCTag: Daejan v Benson, Lord Neuberger, Major works, Queens Mansions, Section 20, Section 20ZA

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