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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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New Capital Quay cladding may cost £7-10m, while NHBC sends in experts – and libel warning to BBC

The misery of the leaseholders at New Capital Quay featured on the BBCR4 You and Yours programme after the APPG on April 6. It emerges that Galliard estimates the cost removing the cladding at the 1,00 flat site at £7-10 million (plus the fire marshals). The warranty provider the NHBC, which employed celebrity libel lawyers […]

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Disgraceful leasehold houses reported in Guardian today

– Urgent issue for MPs of parliamentary group on leasehold next month – Onerous lease terms in taxpayer-aided Help To Buy home purchases – Ground rents doubling every 10 years from plc housebuilder The disgraceful and increasingly widespread scandal of plc housebuilders selling leasehold houses is reported in The Guardian today. It can be read here The […]

Now Daily Telegraph wades into the leasehold house racket

Survey on onerous ground rent data. Please fill this in if you have a leasehold house with exploitative ground rent terms Yesterday the Daily Telegraph waded into the on-going scandal of housebuilders eroding the wealth of generation with leasehold homes. “A generation of home buyers is set to live under the shadow of complex, onerous […]

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

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Brokenshire wrongly says freeholders have paid for Grenfell cladding removal

Communities Secretary James Brokenshire told the Commons yesterday that freeholders had paid up to remove Grenfell cladding from private blocks. He was replying to a parliamentary question from Hilary Benn concerning astronomic Grenfell cladding costs at Saxton and Skyline Apartments in his Leeds constituency. Mr Brokenshire should understand that the developers who have paid up […]

Praise for Barratt’s – and LKP – from Citiscape leaseholders

APPG, April 26 Two leaseholders at the Citiscape site in Croydon offered public praise to Barratt and thanked LKP for its efforts to get the issue raised in public and addressed. Anuj Vats and Srikant Alla are at the forefront of organising the leaseholders into a functioning residents’ association to address the crisis imposed on […]

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Why does it take 60% of leasehold residents to create a tenants’ association – and only 30% of his constituency to elect Housing Minister Mark Prisk?

The Leasehold Knowledge Partnership is strongly urging Housing Minister Mark Prisk (right) to change the rules to recognise tenants’ associations, as leasehold residents’ associations are formally known in law. At present they can only be set up when 60 per cent of the residents ask for one to be recognised by their freeholder. This is a […]

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

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