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Gateway Property Management takes over as Countrywide is given the boot by Bovis

January 14, 2015 By admin

Gateway Property Management has taken over the Swindon sites of Bovis Homes after Countrywide was given its marching orders last month. Owing to the intervention of the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership, Bovis Homes finally lost patience with Countrywide and dumped it at all sites across the country.

Filed Under: Countrywide, Latest News, News Tagged With: ARMA-Q, Bovis Homes, Countrywide, Countrywide Estate Management, Gateway Property Management, Justin Tomlinson, Swindon, Tony Dean

Council’s section 106 is delaying the hand-over of residents’ management companies, Countrywide tells leaseholder in complaints ruling

December 6, 2014 By admin

Swindon leaseholder Andy Webb, who lives in Bovis-built site The Oaks, complained to Countrywide Estate Management about the delays in handing over control of the residents’ management company. He wished to attend an AGM and put himself forward as a director, and the complaint was “escalated” in July to Elaine M Evans, Countrywide’s “compliance & complaints […]

Filed Under: Countrywide Tagged With: Andy Webb, Cherry Jones, Countrywide, Countrywide Estate Management, Elaine M Evans, Swindon, The Oaks

Countrywide ‘ripping off’ leaseholders, MP tells Commons. And it is given the boot by Bovis Homes

December 6, 2014 By admin

– Property management company accused of stalling hand-over of residents’ management companies – Bovis Homes is ejecting Countrywide from Swindon sites and is not appointing it at future ones – And … Countrywide declines to confirm whether it is applying to join ARMA-Q Justin Tomlinson (left), Conservative MP for North Swindon, has accused Countrywide of […]

Filed Under: AdviceCaseStudies, ARMA, ARMA-Q, Countrywide, Latest News, News, Parliament, Slider2 Tagged With: ARMA, ARMA-Q, Bovis Homes, Brandon Lewis, Countrywide, Countrywide Estate Management, David Ritchie, Elaine M Evans, Gillian Bridges, Justin Tomlinson, Madison Walk, Madison Walk 2, Mark Prisk, Michelle Banks, Robert Buckland, Sir Peter Bottomley, Steven Taylor, Swindon, The Oaks

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Housing Bill omits necessary ‘changes to leasehold and commonhold’

… and forfeiture needs changing, too Housing minister Brandon Lewis is facing trouble over his Housing Bill with Sir Peter Bottomley today telling the commons: “The Bill totally misses out the necessary changes to leasehold and commonhold. “Some years ago, the House passed a Bill to allow commonhold to come in. It has defects and […]

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

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 […]

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Bellway offers young mother freehold for £3,750. But Adriatic Land demands £12,750 … then agrees to half the sum

Survey on onerous ground rent data. Please fill this in if you have a leasehold house with exploitative ground rent terms The first-time buyer of a Bellway leasehold house is furious that the housebuilder has sold off the freehold to her property to ground rent investment company Adriatic Land adding thousands to its cost. Heather […]

The Sun attacks ‘fatcat’ housebuilders with inflated fortunes thanks to Help To Buy

Fatcat boss involved in leasehold scandal lives in one of his company’s newbuild homes A FATCAT boss involved in the leasehold scandal lives in one of his company’s newbuild homes. But he has avoided the rip-off ground rent fees that have ruined the lives of other homebuyers. Ted Ayres, chief executive of property giant Bellway, […]

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 […]

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Grenfell cladding

Sean Mulryan’s Ballymore won’t be doing the ‘decent thing’ over Grenfell cladding costs at New Providence Wharf

Dublin-based developer Ballymore has bluntly told an MP that leaseholders will have to pay to remove Grenfell ACM cladding panels at New Providence Wharf in Poplar, east London. It joins Aussie developer Lendlease, which is refusing to pay out – or explain why not – at Cypress Place and Vallea Court in Manchester. A figure […]

Blenheim Centre flat owners to be spared £20,000-30,000 each on Grenfell cladding bill, Legal & General tells LKP

Legal & General has announced that it will pick up the entire, multi-million pound cost of removing the Grenfell-style cladding at flats above the Blenheim Centre in Hounslow, west London, it has informed LKP. This means that the 334 residential leaseholders at the flats, called Reflexions, will be spared repair bills estimated between £20,000 and […]

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Has Brokenshire trashed Sajid Javid’s reforms of leasehold?

  October 14 2018 UPDATE: On January 29 2019 Communities Secretary James Brokenshire held a round table with leaseholder groups, assuring them that zero ground rents were on the table. Sebastian O’Kelly, of LKP and www.BetterRetirementHousing.com, argued for retirement housing also to lose its exemption from any ground rent ban.  This week we should have […]

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Hogan Lovells property solicitors report Blythe Court scandal on website

The issue of Blythe Court flats being sold with exorbitant ground rents is the subject of a website article by international property law giant Hogan Lovells. The article can be read in full here It reports how Sir Peter Bottomley intervened to stop the sale of 1 Blythe Court, which was to have been auctioned […]

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