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Platinum Skies

Retirement housebuilder Platinum Skies breached shared ownership rules with onerous ‘staircasing’ charges in the lease

Category: Latest News, News, Retirement, Shared ownershipTag: Andrew Ellson, ARCO, Bruce Moore, Conor Burns MP, Housing 21, John Beesley, Liam Spender, Lord Fink, Michael Voges, Platinum Skies, Sebastian O’Kelly, Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP, Sir Peter Bottomley, The Times

Data tells us sprinklers work, waking watch doesn’t, and freehold punters aren’t picking up the tab, Martin Boyd tells ODI

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Cladding scandal, Dame Judith Hackitt, Harry Scoffin, Martin Boyd, New Providence Wharf, NHBC, ODI, Open Data Institute, Sebastian O’Kelly, Sir Ken Knight, Sprinkler systems, Waking watch contracts

Tower Hamlets leaseholders find their voice, host free building safety conference with LKP on June 15

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Harry Scoffin, John Biggs, Liam Spender, Lucy Brown-Cortes, Martin Boyd, Natalie Carter, New Providence Wharf, Rabina Khan, Rushanara Ali MP, Sebastian O’Kelly, Thames Water, Tower Hamlets, Tower Hamlets Justice for Leaseholders, UKCAG, Unmesh Desai

Get commonhold done, London Assembly tells government

Category: Commonhold, HomeSlider, Latest News, London Assembly, NewsTag: Andrew Boff, CMA, Commonhold, Communities Select Committee, Competition and Markets Authority, Covid-19, Harry Scoffin, Leonie Cooper, London Assembly, London City Hall, London mayor, Martin Boyd, MHCLG, Nicky Gavron, Open Data Institute, Sadiq Khan, Sebastian O’Kelly, Sian Berry, Tony Devenish, Unmesh Desai

MoneyBox leasehold

We are going to court if necessary to get ripped off leaseholders their money back, CMA tells BBCR4 MoneyBox

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: BBC R4 MoneyBox, Cath Williams, CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, George Lusty, Paul Lewis, Sebastian O’Kelly

Fairview New Homes cancels sale as buyer wanted own solicitor and mortgage broker, says Times

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, PressTag: conveyancing, Fairview New Homes, Sebastian O’Kelly, The Times

Leasehold Knowledge Partnership Parliamentary award

Number 10 chief of staff Gavin Barwell ‘delighted’ to be invited to present award to LKP

Category: APPG, Latest News, NewsTag: Jim Fitzpatrick MP, John Healey MP, Justin Madders MP, Martin Boyd, Mike Amesbury MP, Rosie Cooper MP, Sarah Jones MP, Sebastian O’Kelly, Sir Peter Bottomley

RBS kicks leaseholders facing forfeiture when they are down, LKP tells FT

Category: Latest News, News, PressTag: Financial Times, RBS, Sebastian O’Kelly, Sir Peter Bottomley

Law Commissioner wants to meet YOU: November 3

Category: Justin Madders MP, Latest News, Law Commission, NewsTag: Andy Burnham, Cath Williams, Jo Darbyshire, Justin Madders MP, Katie Kendrick, Law Commission, Louie Burns, Martin Boyd, Professor Nick Hopkins, Sebastian O’Kelly

New trustees and changes at LKP

Category: NewsTag: Bob Bessell, Dean Buckner, James Driscoll, Joanne Darbyshire, LKP trustees, Louie Burns, Martin Boyd, Sebastian O’Kelly

The Sun says … ‘thousands trapped in leasehold homes due to spiralling ground rent costs’

Category: Latest News, News, PressTag: Joanne Darbyshire, Sebastian O’Kelly, Taylor Wimpey, The Sun

Pathetic efforts by plc housebuilders to address ground rent scandal exposed on TV

Category: Latest News, News, PressTag: Anna Politkovskaya, Countryside Properties plc, Katie Kendrick, Renegade Inc, Russia Today, Sebastian O’Kelly

Sebastian O’Kelly addresses retirement property managers. Were you lynched? No, they agreed: leasehold ‘granny flats’ have no future

Category: ARHM, Latest News, News, RetirementTag: ARHM, Bob Bessell, Elim Court, Margaret Court, Retirement, Sebastian O’Kelly, Strand Court

LKP tells BBC that property managers can’t regulate themselves. It needs government

Category: Latest News, News, PressTag: ARMA, BBC R4 You and Yours, RICS, Sajid Javid, Sally Keeble, Sebastian O’Kelly, Winifred Robinson

MPs tell government consultation: End leasehold houses. Scrap new ground rents. Ignore pleas for self-regulation. Ban Help To Buy on rip-off leaseholds

Category: APPG, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Latest News, News, Parliament, Sir Ed Davey, Sir Peter BottomleyTag: Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Martin Boyd, Sebastian O’Kelly, Sir Ed Davey, Sir Peter Bottomley

Telegraph and Mail attack Nationwide for £54 million ground rent investments

Category: Latest News, News, PressTag: John Lewis Partnership Pension Trust, Nationwide, Sebastian O’Kelly, Tchenguiz Family Trust

Police may need to investigate ground rent scandal, says Bottomley

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, PressTag: Daily Mail, Sebastian O’Kelly, Sir Peter Bottomley

Developer recommended solicitors could face £500m bill, says Daily Mail

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Press, Taylor WimpeyTag: Daily Mail, Leasehold Solutions, Louie Burns, Sebastian O’Kelly

Why are leasehold house owners mobilising while flat owners suffer in silence?

Category: APPG April 19 2017, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Parliament, RedrowTag: Canary Riverside, Clair Scott, Katie Kendrick, Louise O'Riordan, National Leasehold Campaign, Redrow, Sebastian O’Kelly

Leasehold needs to be reformed, BBC Money Box Live is told

Category: Conveyancing Association, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, PressTag: Andrew Bulmer, Beth Rudolf, Conveyancing Association, HomeOwners Alliance, IRPM, Paula Higgins, Sebastian O’Kelly

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

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Press, Taylor WimpeyTag: BBC R4 Today, Leasehold houses, Sarah Montague, Sebastian O’Kelly

Taylor Wimpey ‘stretches credulity’ by refusing to list properties sold with doubling ground rents

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Taylor WimpeyTag: APPG, Martin Boyd, Pete Redfern, Sebastian O’Kelly, Taylor Wimpey

Ground rent strike ‘a very real possibility,’ reports Daily Telegraph

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Press, Taylor WimpeyTag: APPG, Help To Buy, Justin Madders MP, Leasehold Law, Leasehold Solutions, Louie Burns, Mari Knowles, Sebastian O’Kelly, Taylor Wimpey, The Daily Telegraph

LEASE chair Roger Southam in Private Eye (again)

Category: Latest News, Mulberry Mews, News, Press, Roger Southam, Taylor WimpeyTag: LEASE, Leasehold Advisory Service, Private Eye, Roger Southam, Sebastian O’Kelly, Taylor Wimpey, Taylor Wimpey London

‘Dump Roger Southam. Appoint Sebastian O’Kelly,’ National Leasehold Campaign tells housing minister

Category: Latest News, LEASE, News, Taylor WimpeyTag: Katie Kendrick, Martin Paine, National Leasehold Campaign, Roger Southam, Sebastian O’Kelly

Leaseholder activists rejected for positions on LEASE board

Category: Latest News, LEASE, NewsTag: Bob Smytherman, Leasehold Advisory Service, Roger Southam, Sebastian O’Kelly, Sir Peter Bottomley

Telegraph reports ‘marketing cobblers’ of 999-year ‘virtual freeholds’ with lethal ground rents

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: APPG, Louie Burns, Richard Dyson, Sebastian O’Kelly, Sir Peter Bottomley, The Daily Telegraph

For first time in 14 years, Westminster hears more of commonhold

Category: Commonhold, Latest News, News, Parliament, PersimmonTag: Alex Ellison, Damian Greenish, Dennis Jackson, Hazel Easthope, James Driscoll, James Wyatt, Jim Fitzpatrick, Kadian Kennelly, Martin Boyd, Nigel Glen, Rob Plumb, Roger Southam, Sebastian O’Kelly, Sir Peter Bottomley, strata

Law Commissioner Stephen Lewis says LKP is right to expose ‘cowboys’

Category: Latest News, Law Commission, NewsTag: Jim Fitzpatrick, Law Commission, Martin Boyd, Sebastian O’Kelly, Sir Peter Bottomley, Stephen Lewis

20% of ARMA members ‘walk out over new ethical scheme’

Category: ARMA, ARMA-Q, Latest News, NewsTag: ARMA, ARMA-Q, Countrywide, Justin Tomlinson, Michelle Banks, Sebastian O’Kelly

Benjamin Mire fails to block RICS disciplinary investigation in the high court

Category: Benjamin Mire, Latest News, NewsTag: Benjamin Mire, Sebastian O’Kelly, Siobhan McGrath, Sir Peter Bottomley

Three MPs are patrons as LKP applies to register as formal charity

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: Jim Fitzpatrick, Martin Boyd, Melissa Briggs, Sebastian O’Kelly, Sir Ed Davey, Sir Peter Bottomley

Janet Entwistle says no current Peverel staff ‘linked’ to Cirrus scam

Category: FirstPort, News, Parliament, Peverel Cirrus story so far, Sir Peter BottomleyTag: Andy Davey, Cirrus, Janet Entwistle, Peverel, Sebastian O’Kelly, Sir Peter Bottomley

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