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RTM champions Urban Owners bought by Warwick Estates

March 15, 2018 By admin

Urban Owners, the LKP accredited managing agent which specialises in right to manage, has been bought by the larger Warwick Estates. The sale concludes 10-years in property management of founder Steve Wylie, a former management consultant with Chicago based giant Accenture. It was after he personally encountered the absurdities of leasehold tenure as the owner […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News Tagged With: Steve Wylie, Urban Owners, Warwick Estates

Urban Owners finds 41% of leaseholders have not had lease terms explained by solicitors

August 17, 2017 By admin

Less than 2% worried about about ground rents when buying a flat Less than 5% have a good understanding of commonhold, but … … APPG on September 11 is to consider the ground rent scandal, the government response to it … and the need for commonhold to replace leasehold The LKP-accredited management company Urban Owners […]

Filed Under: Commonhold, Latest News, News Tagged With: Commonhold, Steve Wylie, Urban Owners

Right to manage champion Urban Owners joins LKP

October 27, 2016 By admin

– Tech savvy company manages large, complex, mixed-use sites right down to conversions of two flats – More than 450 RTMs completed for leaseholders The latest property management company to become accredited to LKP is Urban Owners, which is an acknowledged expert in gaining leaseholders the right to manage. It has carried out 450-500 RTMs […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, RTM Tagged With: right to manage, Steve Wylie, Urban Owners

DCLG told ‘incentive to remain an honest managing agent gets less with each passing year’

May 12, 2016 By admin

Civil servants meet property managers who work for leaseholders … which makes a change from trade bodies, compromised quango chairmen, housebuilders working the leasehold opportunities, big freehold interests (frequently owned offshore) and the terracotta army of professionals whose livelihood depends on English flat-ownership being absurdly complex and unbalanced Four senior managing agents met officials at […]

Filed Under: DCLG, Latest News, News, Parliament, Taylor Wimpey Tagged With: Alan Coates, ARMA, ARMA-Q, Cherry Jones, DCLG, HML Holdings, Home from Home, Rob Plumb, Steve Wylie, Urban Owners

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Taylor Wimpey more greedy than the ground rent ‘Mr Smallweeds’ (and so are other plc housebuilders)

Survey on onerous ground rent data. Please fill this in if you have a leasehold house with exploitative ground rent terms Groundrentsforsale.com probably does not regard itself as dilatory in furthering the interests of freehold investors who feast off ground rents. Sounding like Dickens’ unappetising Mr Smallweed – “Shake me up, Judy!” – in Bleak […]

Labour to cap ‘legalised extortion’ of ground rents and end leasehold houses … Opposition and government now compete to reform leasehold

Survey on onerous ground rent data. Please fill this in if you have a leasehold house with exploitative ground rent terms The four-year campaign of the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership to reform leasehold has taken a surge forward this week. Today Labour said that it will cap charges that leaseholders pay in ground rents, and set […]

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Would you choose a good night out, or 500 freehold acres of Mayfair and Belgravia?

The low-born woman who made the Duke of Westminster’s fortune Today’s article in the Financial Times prompts this historical footnote. The FT quite rightly highlights the Court of Appeal action of chartered surveyor James Wyatt, of Parthenia Limited, who is challenging the mathematical calculation of values in lease extensions. If he wins the case, and […]

Bannister Preston and Cohen Filippini Solicitors ‘errors’ over ground rents, says BBC

BBC1’s consumer show Rip Off Britain this morning identified alleged errors by solicitors involved in the conveyancing of Taylor Wimpey leasehold houses: Bannister Preston and Cohen Filippini. The programme claimed that both firms wrongly informed buyers of the ground rent terms of the leasehold house purchases. Lisa Roxby, of Taylor Wimpey’s Speakman Gardens in Merseyside, […]

Ground rent protestors stage ANOTHER demonstration against leasehold houses and charges

The National Leasehold Campaign Facebook group, now more than 6,000 strong, staged another demonstration at the weekend in protest at the ground rent scandal. The even took place outside a development of Redrow leasehold houses in Ellesmere Port, the same site of the demonstration in April: Leaseholders demand end to Redrow selling leasehold houses The […]

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Grenfell cladding

Government thinking freeholders are paternalistic long-term custodians of a building is where it has gone wrong over Grenfell cladding

Sorry, they are just speculators in it for the enforceable income By Martin Boyd Translating freeholder or landlord as “building owner” is a bad idea that has led government to make a mess of its efforts to resolve the issue of Grenfell cladding on private sites. LKP explained to both Dame Judith Hackitt and the […]

Lendlease caves in over £5m Grenfell cladding bills at Vallea Court and Cypress Place

In yet another retreat by plc house builders, the Aussie giant Lendlease is stumping up to pay to remove the Grenfell cladding at Vallea Court and Cypress Place, in Manchester’s Green Quarter. Before government ministers start talking rubbish about “freeholders doing the decent thing” – or worse, describing these speculators in residential freehold income streams […]

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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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Spreading Paine: the freeholds owned by Martin Paine and his wife (Margaret) Anne Kirmond

Below are freeholds from the Land Registry featuring properties owned by companies belonging to Martin Paine and / or his wife Margaret Anne Kirmond. They appear to own the freeholds of 444 flats, and other assets on leases such as garages. The freehold owning companies are Mercia Property Investments Limited, F.t.z. Limited and Chamber Estates Limited. We […]

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