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Leaseholders advice session

February 14, 2018 by Editor

These have been really popular in the past. Leasehold specialists from Bishop & Sewell will offer 15min advice slots. This should be enough time for you to describe the issue and come away with an overview of your options. Monday 5 March, between 6.30 and 8.00pm at the Limes Centre, 6 Somers Rd, E17 6RX. […]

Case for fairer leasehold valuations thrown out

January 24, 2018 by Editor

How much should a leaseholder pay for a lease extension? That was the question at the heart of an appeal heard last week in the Royal Court of Justice. Surveyor James Wyatt challenged the current methods of valuation as inaccurate and favouring the freeholder. In the original case of Mundy v The Trustees of Sloane […]

Leasehold reform hits housebuilder shares

January 3, 2018 by Editor

On December 21, when Sajid Javid announced his plans to reform leasehold, housebuilders shares started sliding. The biggest fall was in retirement builders McCarthy & Stone which dropped 10% and has stayed there since. McCarthy & Stone specialise in the retirement sector, where sadly some of the worst exploitation occurs, with not only inflated ground […]

Sonia McColl

Leasehold campaigner loses home

December 27, 2017 by Editor

  Sonia McColl heads the Justice for Park Homeowners campaign. She has spent years campaigning for the rights of park homeowners and has made a few enemies in doing so. After receiving death threats, she decided to sell her park home and buy a new one to pitch on relatives’ land. But the new home […]

How land was allocated in feudalism

Leasehold extensions to be ‘easier, faster & cheaper’!

December 21, 2017 by Editor

Sajid Javid has asked his department (DCLG) to work with the Law Commission to make buying a freehold or extending a lease much easier, faster and cheaper. Following a consultation on leasehold earlier this year, Javid, the Minister for Communites and Local Government has today acknowledged the problems raised, and has issued some promising calls […]

Justin Madders MP

Leasehold reform bill tabled

November 24, 2017 by Editor

This summer the behaviour of Taylor Wimpey and other unscrupulous developers propelled leasehold reform onto the front pages of every newspaper. Developers had sold houses as leasehold, sneaked doubling ground rents into the lease, sold the freehold to third parties without giving the leaseholder first refusal, and pushed buyers into the arms of dodgy solicitors […]

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