Using a flat for “immoral purposes” can be grounds for forfeiture The Sunday Times today exposes a prime London site belonging to freeholder, insurance tycoon and Conservative Party donor Christopher Moran as being full prostitutes. Many have to sell their bodies 30 times a month before they can afford the rents of £3,000 a month […]
Media coverage of leasehold problems just keeps on growing … Doesn’t that tell ministers something?
The level of media interest in leasehold problems continues to grow. There is now regular coverage in: the Sunday Times, The Times, the FT, the Guardian, the Telegraph and the Daily Mail. BBC Breakfast returned to the issue recently to interview new LKP trustee, Jo Darbyshire, and Director of the Conveyancing Association, Beth Rudolf, who […]
LKP’s essential leasehold guide in The Sunday Times … feel free to add
By Sebastian O’Kelly It was good to be able to use a small Q&A article in yesterday’s Sunday Times to offer a mini guide for leaseholders. This is the sort of thing the Leasehold Advisory Service should be putting out, if it were not in thrall to the commercialisers in the sector. Indeed, it was […]
My granny’s Audley Retirement home ‘was a money pit’ costing £48,000 in exit fees
The Sunday Times yesterday published a powerful article by Harriet Meyer revealing how her family spent £48,160 in fees on selling at Audley Retirement flat. Audley Retirement is one of the upmarket providers in the sector, which Campaign against Retirement Leasehold Exploitation has long argued has even greater exploitative practices at the higher end than […]
Affluent London leaseholders are just as likely to be kicked around as poor ones, finds the Sunday Times
Under the headline “Does it add up?”, The Sunday Times exposed ever escalating service charges in an excellent, well researched article by journalist Hugh Graham published yesterday. Property buying agent Paul Bailey was quoted saying that ever escalating service charges are under-mining capital values in prime London sites. “It does not matter to the billionaire […]
Sunday Times reports Taylor Wimpey ground rent scandal, as executives meet leaseholders
The Taylor Wimpey ground rent scandal featured in the Sunday Times yesterday, as it emerges that executives are being sent out to visit the complaining leaseholders. The article was in the form of a reader’s letter from a £130,000 leasehold house owner in Bolton facing doubling ground rents from an initial £250. Garry Evans says […]
