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Could freeholder Christopher Moran clean up big time by closing the brothels at Chelsea Cloisters?

November 25, 2018 By admin

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 […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, Press, Prostitutes Tagged With: Chelsea Cloisters, Christopher Moran, Prostitutes, The Sunday Times

Media coverage of leasehold problems just keeps on growing … Doesn’t that tell ministers something?

September 30, 2018 By Admin2

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 […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, Press Tagged With: BBC R4 MoneyBox, Daily Mail, Shared ownership, The Sunday Times

LKP’s essential leasehold guide in The Sunday Times … feel free to add

August 6, 2018 By admin

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 […]

Filed Under: Latest News, LEASE, News, Press Tagged With: Leasehold Advisory Service, The Sunday Times

My granny’s Audley Retirement home ‘was a money pit’ costing £48,000 in exit fees

April 3, 2017 By admin

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 […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, Press, Retirement Tagged With: Audley Retirement, Retirement, The Sunday Times

Affluent London leaseholders are just as likely to be kicked around as poor ones, finds the Sunday Times

February 6, 2017 By admin

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 […]

Filed Under: Canary Riverside, John Christodoulou, Latest News, News, Press Tagged With: Canary Riverside, Charter Quay, David Marsden, Hugh Graham, John Christodoulou, Martin Boyd, Paul Bailey, Sir Peter Bottomley, The Sunday Times

Sunday Times reports Taylor Wimpey ground rent scandal, as executives meet leaseholders

November 28, 2016 By admin

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 […]

Filed Under: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Press, Taylor Wimpey Tagged With: APPG, Berkeley, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Sir Peter Bottomley, Taylor Wimpey, The Sunday Times

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Industrial-scale ground rent rip-offs have turned leasehold properties into short-term tenancies, says Maria Eagle

Commons debate, July 11 Maria Eagle, Labour MP for Garston and Halewood, questioned in the Commons whether ground rents are now so onerous the property qualifies as an Assured Short-Tenancy – an ordinary rented property. This issue has been addressed by barrister Rawdon Crozier at various property conferences. The law firm Mischon de Reya, Maria […]

LKP submission to Housing Bill

Now is the time for all leaseholders seeking reform to put pressure on MPs to get leasehold addressed in the Housing Bill. Below is the extensive LKP submission to the committee stage of the Housing and Planning Bill 2015. It can be read here on Parliament’s website: LKP is calling for: 1/ An end to […]

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Buyers walk away from toxic Persimmon leasehold house

… but is the housebuilder going to sting them for £500 deposit? A young couple in Plymouth have walked away from buying a Persimmon leasehold house believing it to be “a property trap”. Zoe and James Naylor were set to buy on Persimmon’s Harford Mews, in Ivybridge, and had paid a deposit of £1,500. According […]

APPG July 11: Taylor Wimpey deserves no praise for its cheating RPI ground rent relief scheme, says leasehold house customer

… What I want what was promised: my freehold for £5,000 Freehold owners are desperate to nobble the ground rent capitalisation rate before reforms By Joanne Darbyshire Speech at APPG on July 11 2018 Jo was also on BBC R4 You and Yours yesterday, which can be heard here at 35 mins in: Treatments for […]

Election: Your chance to ask Theresa May about the leasehold scandals

LBC have invited people to email questions for Theresa May for the show at 7pm tomorrow. election@lbc.co.uk How about this for starters: Housebuilders are building exploitative leasehold houses and flats with outrageous lease terms, such as high and doubling ground rents. Many have been sold with taxpayers’ help through Help To Buy. Taylor Wimpey is […]

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Leaseholders and freeholder of evacuated Manchester block win £10.8m insurer payout for ‘serious defects’

By Harry Scoffin A freeholder and his leaseholders secured victory at the Court of Appeal last week, with the insurer ordered to pay a £10.8m bill for works to make a Manchester development safe. Although the faults pre-date Grenfell, it is the first court case win for private leaseholders over safety and structural defects since […]

Sajid Javid calls for Grenfell cladding round table with developers and freeholders … and LKP will be invited

Communities Secretary Said Javid called today for a Grenfell cladding round table with developers and ground rent speculators … and LKP will be invited to attend. Mr Javid also repeated to the Commons his hope that freeholders and developers take more responsibility for the cladding, which is threatening financial ruin to thousands of families. The […]

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Officials fail to stop LKP publishing legal opinions on flawed reform of Recognised Tenants’ Associations (RTAs)

A last minute attempt to stop LKP from publishing three legal opinions extremely critical of the government’s bungled reform to Recognised Tenants’ Associations failed last week. The government introduced a statutory instrument in October that has actually made the position of leaseholders worse. The failing was referenced in the Commons by Sir Peter Bottomley with […]

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Martin Paine, embedded management companies, LKP … all raised in Queen’s speech debate

These issues were raised by Sir Peter Bottomley in the Queen’s Speech debate yesterday Let me turn to other issues that come up for Back Benchers. I pick up causes, one of which came about as a result of an incident in my constituency regarding leasehold, when some elderly, frail and poor people found themselves […]

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