2024-06-12 • By marty
Since it's manifestos week and all the parties present their manifestos to the public, let's see what they say about the urgently needed leasehold reform:
Labour states:
"Labour will also take decisive action to improve building safety, including through regulation, to ensure we never again see a repeat of the Grenfell fire. We will review how to better protect leaseholders from costs and take steps to accelerate the pace of remediation across the country. We ...
2024-05-27 • By martyraychev
The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act is now a law. Let's see what it has for us:
2024-11-21 • By marty
The Leasehold Trap - 22/11 19:30 on BBC1
Great documentary about the unjust system of leasehold and what it causes leaseholders in terms of financial and mental distress.
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2025-03-04 • By marty
The government has published the Commonhold White Paper on 03 Mar 2025.
Key changes:
2025-02-02 • By marty
In late November 2024, the government has pledged to overhaul the leasehold system in England and Wales by the end of the current Parliament, moving towards commonhold ownership. Leaseholders currently face high ground rents and service charges, with some trapped in exploitative arrangements.
Again, this appears to be a step by step set of incremental changes?
Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook outlined a timetable for reform:
2024-12-23 • By marty
Many thanks to the Guardian for featuring my fellow leaseholders and I in the leasehold nightmare challenges we found ourselves over the last 6 years. In this nightmare we have had everything - from low quality construction to fraudulent freeholder, incompetent managing agents who couldn’t care less, to even violence by the freeholder against a leaseholder. The managing agents (being paid with the leaseholders’ money but employed by the freeholder ) run deliberate maladminist...
2024-12-16 • By marty
I am sharing my experience on the Abolish Leasehold website, I aim to highlight the real and often hidden abuse that leaseholders can endure at the hands of unscrupulous freeholders.
The year is 2020. A little-known company called The Old House Group – a one-man show run by Nasser Alanizy – buys the freehold of a 7-storey modular building in NW London named Mar House. The purpose of this acquisition is to build two new floors (allowed wi...
2024-12-09 • By marty
Mar House, a 7-storey building with nearly 100 flats in North West London, serves as a stark example of the flaws inherent in the current leasehold system. The building has experienced a cascade of systemic issues: from maladministration and questionable financial practices to outright legal violations. Leaseholders faced exaggerated service charge demands, with some bills reaching an astonishing £99,000 per annum per flat. The building’s balance sheets inaccurately claim millions...
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