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Leasehold Knowledge Partnership

Advising leaseholders. Avoiding disasters.
Stopping forfeiture. Exposing abuses.
Urging reform …

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We advice leaseholders on the perils and pitfalls of the leasehold system, and on how to succeed in a system that is rigged against them by commercial interests

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The Leasehold Knowledge Partnership seeks to report all the news from the leasehold sector that affects those who pay for the whole edifice: leaseholders

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LKP is secretariat of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and commonhold reform, which in the last Parliament had 177 MPs and front bencher ‘friends’

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News

Campaigner Katie Kendrick gets Rightmove to include lease details on sales listings

Campaigner Katie Kendrick gets Rightmove to include lease details on sales listings
leasehold scandal campaigners

Housing association Network Homes seeks to dump some of its £200m cladding costs on leaseholders

Housing association Network Homes seeks to dump some of its £200m cladding costs on leaseholders
EDM history 2005

Early Day Motion supported by Corbyn, McDonnell, Bottomley etc … in 2005

Early Day Motion supported by Corbyn, McDonnell, Bottomley etc … in 2005
ODI Video Bob Cratchit

Housing data needs to help Bob Cratchit, not Ebenezer Scrooge

Housing data needs to help Bob Cratchit, not Ebenezer Scrooge
Peter Bottomley Sky Father of House

Our Father, who art in … Parliament

Our Father, who art in … Parliament

Ground Rent Scandals

Katie Kendrick Sky News Dec 19

LKP trustees Katie Kendrick and Louie Burns tell Sky News and BBC R4 MoneyBox of ‘David and Goliath’ fight for freeholds

Does Li Ka-shing own your Adriatic freehold, or Hutchison Whampoa, or billionaire Frank Sixt, or Astor? Only Long Harbour knows, and it’s not saying …

Astor Times Front page

Families challenge Long Harbour for freeholds to Bellway leasehold houses, The Times reports

Rothesay Life

Would you want your former Prudential pension invested in Tchenguiz ground rents by Rothesay Life? FT reports concerns

Boris Johnson Manifesto

‘Get leasehold done’? Boris Johnson’s Conservatives repeat 2017 pledges in manifesto

Ground rent baron James Tuttiett gives £8,500 to the Tories (which is a bit stingy, considering …)

Swayne McCarthy Stone

Churchill Retirement donates £150,000 to Conservatives. To retain ground rents, by any chance?

Esther McVey hints at new era of friendly cross-party consensus in Commons debate

NLC conveyancing report on BBC R4 You and Yours today

£100,000

Peverel / FirstPort pays compo – ‘goodwill gesture’ – after collusive tendering racket for electronic door entry systems at retirement sites.

£12 million

Legal and General prompted to pick up the full Grenfell cladding removal cost at Blenheim Centre / Reflexion in Hounslow.

£130 million

Taylor Wimpey puts aside £130 million to re-write the doubling ground rent leases which it dumped on its customers.

£200 million

After two years of indecision – and no help from freehold ‘owners’ – government sets up a Grenfell cladding removal fund for private blocks.

Would any of this have happened without the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership?

Cladding scandal

Cladding Panel

Cladding site? Come to parliamentary meeting on January 9 … and get your MP to attend as well

Cladding Work

New fire safety certificate to unlock UK high-rise flat market after Advice Notice 14 resulted in valuations of zero, FT reports

Bellway to pay to remove wood from Barking Riverside fire site

Sector announces new building safety test for leasehold blocks to ‘keep the high-rise property market flowing’

New Lawrence House

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

Cladding Panel

Cladding site? Come to parliamentary meeting on January 9 … and get your MP to attend as well

Grenfell Badge

Grenfell United link up with leaseholder groups to protest cladding crisis and warn next government of Grenfell 2

Cladding Work

Why AN14 is making your cladding flat impossible to sell

Y&Y Cladding Nov 19

Only one Grenfell cladding site in line for taxpayer handout as December 31st deadline looms, reports BBC R4 You and Yours  

Press

Does Dominic Cumming’s gung-ho planning idea put a hole in Law Commission’s enfranchisement reforms by boosting freehold values?

Leaseholder of £3m pad in central London demands £100 a day off Gerald Ronson for no internet  

Leasehold Houses

Taxpayers funding two leasehold houses a day in 2019 through Help To Buy … despite government saying THREE times they should be banned

The Times Spread

The Times reports that families ‘lost £3 billion’ on resale of leasehold retirement flats, while developers and freehold speculators made millions

After ground rents and cladding … now lenders won’t touch rip-off ‘fleecehold’ properties either, BBC reports

Cladding crisis: How worse can it get?

Fairview New Homes cancels sale as buyer wanted own solicitor and mortgage broker, says Times

Redrow: ‘shoddy workmanship and leasehold games’, but bumper profits from Help To Buy

John McDonnell is a leaseholder, reveals Daily Mail in hatchet job article

Leaseholders pay up to 60% more for buildings insurance because of secret commissions, reports The Times

Ending ground rents will hurt leaseholders, says Long Harbour …

The i newspaper links leasehold ‘slums of the future’ to Help To Buy and the Tchenguiz Family Trust

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