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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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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 […]

Government is hiding behind Law Commission and CMA, says Tory MP Bob Blackman

Commons debate, July 11 2019 Bob Blackman, the Conservative MP for Harrow West, claims the government is prevaricating over leasehold reform. It notes what the Communities Select Committee, of which Mr Blackman is a member, has unearthed but “there has been no commitment to actrion”. “The Government are leaning on the fact that the Law […]

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Ratner moment for UK housebuilders, says Chris Blythe, CEO of Chartered Institute of Building

The forthright CEO of the Chartered Institute of Building has again criticised the UK’s plc housebuilders this month. He references Bovis admitting paying its customers to occupy unfinished homes to meet year-end sales as well as the leasehold house / ground rent scandal. The article can be read here In February Mr Blythe criticised the […]

Ground rent scandal risks becoming full-blown crisis as loans are refused on blighted homes

The ground rent scandal risks becoming a full blown housing crisis as mortgage lenders refuse to loans for homes with onerous terms, says the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership. This week LKP was contacted by two buyers who had had their mortgages refused, even though the terms are not that onerous. One was in London, where the […]

Bottomley tells Taylor Wimpey to explain ‘sharp practice’ ground rents – and asks for names of directors who approved them

Sir Peter Bottomley (right) has demanded that Taylor Wimpey explain its “unfair ground rent” provisions to the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold reform. Yesterday he told fellow MPs at the APPG meeting chaired by Jim Fitzpatrick, Labour MP for Poplar and Limehouse: “The ground rent increase may have been legal. It is clearly undesirable. […]

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NHBC accepts Grenfell cladding bill at Galliard’s New Capital Quay

UPDATE JULY 11: The Times reports that the NHBC caved in days after 220 leaseholders began legal proceedings to force the controversial warranty insurer to pay out. Leaseholder Nigel Pickford, 71, who spoke at our APPG in April and who lives in a £1 million apartment on the top floor of one of the blocks, […]

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 […]

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Martin Paine demanded ground rents of thousands from two London leaseholders

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