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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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Labour deputy Tom Watson joins APPG on leasehold reform – but select committee STILL won’t call in the housebuilders

Does the UK have the greediest, most venal and least competent housebuilders in the world? The Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joined the APPG on leasehold and commonhold reform yesterday, while the Communities Select Committee still has not called in the housebuilders. Mr Watson, the MP for West Bromwich East, joined on the prompting of […]

71% of leasehold house buyers used developer recommended solicitors

We estimate that 37,960 leasehold houses have been registered on the Land Registry since 2010. It has hugely increased: 3,420 leasehold houses were registered in 2010; that became 8,775 in 2015. Figures for 2016 are still coming through. They are 8,230 to date, but we are only getting into December registrations now. Since we began […]

Housebuilders sitting on 600,000 plots of land, while taxpayers pour in billions through Help To Buy

Housebuilders sitting on 600,000 plots of land, while taxpayers pour in billions through Help To Buy The Guardian reveals the extend of plc house builders landbanking in an article published on December 30 2018. Sadly omits Churchill Retirement and McCarthy and Stone – the latter having a particularly healthy land bank. It argued that – […]

Fill in our survey to demonstrate the new-build ground rent scandal

All leasehold owners affected by onerous lease terms and ground rents are invited to fill in the following survey. The information will be used to demonstrate to civil servants and politicians the scale of the problems facing leasehold home owners, whether of flats or houses. It is extremely important that decision makers are presented with […]

Leasehold houses and the sales process were ‘absolutely disgusting’, MPs told. But have laws been broken?

Charities and housing associations are ‘ripped off’ as bogus sales prices are recorded on Land Registry, it is claimed Many leasehold house buyers are in negative equity owing to over-valuations Developers’ ‘morally debatable’ conduct over leasehold house sales, with ‘huge benefits’ to use recommended solicitors If developer recommended solicitors complete within 28 days, there is […]

APPG hears agony of Grenfell cladding on private sites, while Lendlease sites head to tribunal to get leaseholders to pay

In the absence of anyone else doing anything, LKP organised the first meeting of private leaseholders in blocks with Grenfell style cladding … but developers like Lendlease stayed away. The meeting was the first opportunity for leaseholders in 297 tower blocks to meet and exchange information and support. No developers, warranty providers or freeholders turned […]

(Galliard v NHBC v the Government v Cladding suppliers) v the Leaseholders

This week saw The Times, the Guardian and the BBC reporting on the ‘New Capital Quay’ site in Greenwich.This site is the largest privately owned development in the UK with ACM type cladding. Costs for replacing the cladding are being suggested at £20 million or even £40 million. In an interview for ‘You and Yours’ […]

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

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