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APPG, December 6: Park home banditry; Law Commission; Planners barring leasehold houses; London deputy mayor; gargantuan Grenfell bills for leaseholders

December 8, 2017 By admin

We are all waiting for Sajid Javid The All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and commonhold reform met on December 6 at Westminster. Overshadowing all was the conclusion of Communities Secretary Sajid Javid’s report on “Tackling unfair practices in the leasehold market”: the review that he announced in the summer, that concluded in September, into […]

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BBC R4 You and Yours reports MPs saying leasehold houses are a ‘national con’

BBC R4’s consumer programme reported the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold reform meeting of April 19. It can be heard hereat 34.00 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08m8z32 Reporter Melanie Abbott attended the meeting and has been covering this story since last December, which has resulted in a number of broadcasts. BBC R4 You and Yours heard that homeowners […]

Every other major economy has moved away from residential leasehold so why not us, asks shadow housing minister Sarah Jones

Commons debate, July 11 2019 By Sebastian O’Kelly LKP chief executive The Labour shadow housing minister Sarah Jones questioned why the government had not made more progress with reforming our predatory leasehold laws. The Communities Select Committee had interviewed 7-800 people, including leaseholders, freeholders, developers, lawyers and trade bodies involved in the sector. Its exhaustive […]

Countryside Properties plc tells leaseholders wanting their freeholds: We’ve signed the pledge (and we’ve flogged them on, anyway) …

… and now we are “working with” the CMA inquiry (or, rather, being investigated by it, as others might put it) Countryside Properties plc has responded to leaseholders who wrote in last week demanding the freeholds to their homes. Here is the PR-crafted response. But to save you the effort, it could be precis-ed like […]

Sajid Javid pledges Help To Buy clampdown on ‘feudal’ leasehold terms

Sajid Javid has threatened to clamp down on the ‘feudal’ racket of housebuilders building leasehold homes with onerous ground rents. The Secretary of State at DCLG is planning to use the Help To Buy scheme as leverage, which LKP has been urging since October when it began the campaign against leasehold houses. Of course, plenty […]

E&J Capital Partners ‘compelled’ to sell freehold to Taylor Wimpey house to pensioner for £38,000 (plus £4,000 costs)

Ground rent speculators E&J Capital Partners were “compelled” to sell pensioner Trevor Nowell the freehold to his Taylor Wimpey leasehold house for £38,000. Once Mr Nowell, 79, began the enfranchisement process, the valuation of the property’s freehold was decided by the professional advisors employed for both sides (which Mr Nowell ended up paying for, as […]

Grenfell cladding leaseholders form campaign group

A campaign group of leaseholders in private blocks with Grenfell cladding is being formed. It is calling itself the UK Cladding Action Group: UKCAG and can be contacted here: ukcladdingactiongroup@gmail.com LKP welcomes the initiative and will do all that it can to assist. The Guardian reports: “Only 10 of the 173 private buildings discovered with […]

What to do about the Grenfell cladding scandal, asks Oxford conference

Victoria, one of Australia’s eight states/ territories, has put aside £330m to remediate Grenfell cladding: England has come up with £200m By Sebastian O’Kelly Mansfield College, Oxford, hosted a fascinating one-day conference yesterday into the Grenfell tragedy and its devastating repercussions to flat owners in blocks with similar cladding across the world. Lawyers predominated, but […]

APPG, December 6: Park home banditry; Law Commission; Planners barring leasehold houses; London deputy mayor; gargantuan Grenfell bills for leaseholders

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