Commons leasehold debate. December 20 2016

The Commons debate on leasehold reform took place after the intervention of LKP patrons Jim Fitzpatrick and Sir Peter Bottomley. The debate can be seen here: http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/fc53bd87-8abf-4986-b7ce-6a7a488b8cfc The debate can be read here: https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2016-12-20/debates/4F15110B-F6D5-4FA1-9154-536BD848130E/LeaseholdAndCommonholdReform The catalyst was the scandal of Taylor Wimpey selling homes between 2007-2011 with doubling ground rents and then selling the freeholds […]

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We want to hear more from developers putting things right, says housing minister

‘Sobering’ statistic that 57% of leaseholders ‘regret buying a leasehold property’ Garvin Barwell, Housing Minister We should accept at the outset that, whatever changes we make to the law, and whatever system we have for managing properties where a number of people have an interest in the land, some tension is inevitable. Even in those […]

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Justin ‘Madders than hell’ about Taylor Wimpey / Bellway / Redrow ground rent scams in leasehold houses

And Homeground is ‘racketeering’ over freehold consent fees, as well ‘Cynical business decision’ by developers ‘Individual solicitors have to answer for what they have done’ My constituents ‘believe that they have been comprehensively stitched up and that is where this place needs to take action’ One of the most powerful interventions in the debate came […]

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Billionaire John Christodoulou and his lawyer David Marsden accused of ‘little short of harassment’ of court-appointed managing agent

What is the Property tribunal doing to protect its own appointed manager? The poisonous dispute at the upmarket site Canary Riverside, part of Canary Wharf in London’s Docklands, was raised by LKP patron Jim Fitzpatrick, Labour MP for Poplar and Limehouse. He accused the John Christodoulou and David Marsden of activities that are “little short […]

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Martin Paine ‘is a crook who is taking “lease” beyond sleaze’, MPs told

Sir Peter Bottomley (Conservative, Worthing West) named the leasehold-gameplayer Martin Paine as a “crook” in the Commons yesterday. “We should not have to rely on the chance action of a campaigning charity such as LKP [the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership] or Carlex—the Campaign Against Retirement Leasehold Exploitation—or a passing Member of Parliament, to get things put […]

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Benjamin Mire ‘not fit to go on being a member of RICS’

Sir Peter Bottomley told the Commons debate on leasehold on December 20: What I will do is talk about some of the abuses. Benjamin Mire, a well-known surveyor and leasehold property manager, was going to be removed by the Ministry of Justice as a person not fit for judicial office, but by the time the […]

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‘Reverse the Mundy case on lease valuations by statute if necessary’

Sir Peter Bottomley said: I interrupt myself now to say that I was going speak for a long section on hedonic regression and Sloane Stanley Estate v. Mundy. As part of that case, Wellcome Trust interests managed to persuade an upper property tribunal of two people to make a change in the valuation of short […]

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Mixed verdict on Leasehold Advisory Service

References to the Leasehold Advisory Service were mixed in the debate. Sir Peter Bottomley questioned whether the ambition to make LEASE financially “self-sustaining” by 2020 was “wrong”. On the other hand, he said: “LEASE is chaired by Roger Southam, and he and his wife know quite a bit about leasehold property.” Indeed, they do. Mr […]

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Ground rent scam ‘creates new asset class,’ says Ruth Cadbury

And leasehold reform is Labour’s ‘unfinished business’ Ruth Cadbury (Brentford and Isleworth) (Lab) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Poplar and Limehouse (Jim Fitzpatrick) and the hon. Member for Worthing West (Sir Peter Bottomley) on securing this important debate, and thank them for their work with the all-party parliamentary group on leasehold reform. […]

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Luke and Brian Comer using ‘tricks’ to stop Platinum House getting right to manage

Gareth Thomas addressed the leasehold debate in the Commons on December 20: It is understood that the leaseholders strongly resisted right to manage application will be heard in the Court of Appeal in February. The Comers are unusual property developers as they manage the properties that they build themselves. At least, they do in England, […]

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Tchenguiz ‘skulduggery’, Peverel / Cirrus bid-rigging scam and Charter Quay: all get another outing

Sir Peter Bottomley told the leasehold debate at the Commons on December 20: “I cannot distinguish between one Tchenguiz brother and the other, or between them and the Tchenguiz trusts, so I will talk about Tchenguiz interests and those who know can pick up on whether they are involved or affected. “There are two points […]

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Right to manage being undermined in Elim and Regent Courts retirement sites

Oliver Colvile MP raised the issues of right to manage and insurance claims at two retirement sites in Plymouth: Elim Court and Regent Court, whose freeholds were acquired by London freeholders at auction. The issues have been reported on many occasions on LKP / Carlex: Elim Court and right to manage and Regent Court Oliver […]

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The All Party Parliamentary Group now has 53 members

  Current members: 53 Listed below are the current members of the All Party Parliamentary Group looking into Leasehold and Commonhold reform. This page is updated as new members join. If your MP is not a member of the APPG yet, please fell free to encourage them to join. They can contact either us at […]

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Taylor Wimpey abandons the leasehold houses racket from January 1

Taylor Wimpey has undertaken to cease building revenue generating leasehold houses from January 1. The announcement comes in a letter to LKP MP patrons Jim Fitzpatrick and Sir Peter Bottomley, and was made before the All Party Parliamentary Group meeting last Wednesday. Taylor Wimpey says that it sold leasehold houses in the North West, a […]

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