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BBC R4 Today programme hears of ‘venal, greedy housebuilders’ playing the angles of leasehold

April 10, 2017 By admin

The influential BBC R4 Today programme this morning devoted five minutes discussing the ground rents housing crisis. It can heard here at 2:32 It featured a report of leasehold house owners in Clitheroe, Lancashire, who had bought their properties from Taylor Wimpey. Leaseholder Andrew Henderson told the programme that the ground rents doubled every ten […]

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Lawyers to Communities Select Committee: Stop ‘sticking plaster reforms’. End ‘draconian’ forfeiture. £10 ground rents a ‘mistake’. Make legal costs fair to leaseholders. Commonhold failed because developers make money out of leasehold …

The evidence provided to the Communities Select Committee by lawyers – and the Law Commissioner Professor Nicholas Hopkins – add up to devastating criticisms of the leasehold system. Three lawyers who have made their careers in the sector barely had a good word to say about leasehold law, when they came before the Select Committee […]

Ken Clarke says ‘serious problems’ in leasehold

Taking a break from the follies of the world – the Brexit he disapproves of and the muted idea that he become prime minister of a national government – the Tory veteran Ken Clarke has noted that things are not good in the world of leasehold. In correspondence to Susan Hunt, a former LKP accredited […]

Guardian sticks with new-build ground rent scandal, while LKP advises Persimmon home buyers to walk away

By Sebastian O’Kelly (This article is bylined in order to declare an interest as the author is a shareholder in Persimmon and Barratt) If Taylor Wimpey, Persimmon, Bellway and other developers playing the angles of leasehold thought the row over cheating ground rents would go away, they must be disabused by now. Today The Guardian […]

Freehold for Elan Homes leasehold house doubles in price to £15,900 four months after being sold to Landmark Investments

But … Landmark Investments claims it has saved leaseholders over £1m by telling them they do not need to engage their own legal advisers in dealing with freehold purchases It tells MP that its practices have made enfranchisement ‘cheaper’, ‘quicker’ and ‘easier’. LKP are ‘pathological liars’ over leasehold abuses, says Landmark’s Mark Hawthornthwaite It is […]

Leasehold house owners thank Brokenshire after Persimmon sells freehold to leasehold house for less than £3,750

Here is an encouraging letter from the owners of a Persimmon leasehold house at Links Crescent, Seascale, in Cumbria. There is nothing remarkable in Persimmon selling a freehold for around £3,750, which is 25 x annual ground rent of £150. This is what our spoon-fed plc housebuilders – whose profits have been driven by taxpayer […]

John Healey says it’s ‘wrong’ for leaseholders to have to pay to remove Grenfell cladding

Labour shadow secretary for housing John Healey says it is ‘wrong’ that ordinary leaseholders are being dumped with huge bills to remove Grenfell Tower cladding from private blocks of flats. In a letter to Communities Secretary Sajid Javid (below) he writes: “It is surely wrong that residents have to pay for these essential works. Rather […]

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 […]

BBC R4 Today programme hears of ‘venal, greedy housebuilders’ playing the angles of leasehold

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