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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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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 […]

Sector foxes warn that changing leasehold will be ‘dangerous’. But for whom?

The government now understands something that LKP has been saying for years: leasehold is a deeply flawed system. It is also a critical and growing part of the housing market in England and Wales. The Housing White Paper entitled “Fixing our broken housing market” launched in February 2017 made this very clear. This has come […]

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Guardian reports misery of leasehold home owners trapped by John Lewis Partnership Pension Trust – and the Mail, Sun, Mirror and Lad Bible (any we have missed?)

UPDATE: for reasons that are a mystery to LKP, this story has now become widespread: Mail, Mirror, Sun (below). All are copies of the Guardian article, which may itself be from the Cambridge Evening News. It may be a case of the age of national newspaper website journalists which explains why this one took off […]

ITV News covers the leasehold house scandal, and homeowners stage mass demo on March 18

ITV News has again reported the leasehold house scandal, which particularly affects the North West. The item, broadcast on March 7, precedes increasing militancy from caught-out leasehold homeowners, some of whom cannot now sell their houses because of onerous ground rents. On March 18 a demonstration is planned by the National Leasehold Campaign Facebook group […]

Some of our freehold clients are offshore, admits Will Astor’s HomeGround

Homeground, the ground rent gatherer that is part of Will Astor’s Long Harbour group, is gathering revenues for offshore owned freeholders, it admits. In a leaflet circulated to leasehold homeowners who have contacted the company, it says: “Some of our client Landlords are companies registered in England and Wales, with records available at Companies House, […]

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Why should Will Astor, Tchenguiz etc be paying to remove Grenfell cladding?

By Sebastian O’Kelly Government plans leaked in The Times to force residential freehold speculators to pay to remove Grenfell cladding from private blocks are doomed to fail. The proposals would almost certainly face legal challenges. They are the latest in a series of disastrous announcements, which followed Communities Secretary James Brokenshire reneging on his predecessor […]

Sesame Apartments: Yet another anonymous Long Harbour freeholder demanding £2.2 million over Grenfell cladding

Labour MP for Battersea Marsha De Cordova is championing the cause of leaseholders facing bills of thousands of pounds at Sesame apartments. She told the Commons yesterday: “Leaseholders are still being left in limbo about whether they will be footing the bill. “But it is not leaseholders who have failed to upgrade buildings or cut […]

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Legal army to stop West India Quay getting … a recognised residents’ association

Giving recognition to a residents’ association at the most exclusive apartment block in Canary Wharf posed the sort of “risks that you see with the trade unions”, the First-Tier Tribunal was told last Thursday. The remark was made by the freeholder’s professional witness, chartered surveyor Bruce Maunder Taylor – and was greeted with guffaws of […]

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