Packed Westminster meeting for leasehold reform
Seventy key figures in the leasehold sector – including some battle-scarred leaseholders – attended a packed Westminster briefing yesterday to hear how leasehold could be reformed. The meeting was...
View ArticlePeverel / FirstPort paid ‘£40,000′ of residents’ contingency fund money to Mr...
In an extraordinary admission, Peverel / FirstPort says it has paid over thousands of pounds of contingency funds at Hillside Court, Ormskirk, to the landlord “by mistake”. Residents estimate that up...
View ArticleLKP is now a registered charity
The Charity Commission this week approved the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership / Carlex as a registered charity. Its registered details and charitable objectives can be read on the commission’s website...
View ArticleLaw Commissioner Stephen Lewis says Carlex is right to expose ‘cowboys’
Carlex has been right to expose “expose the outrageous behaviour of cowboys” in the retirement housing sector, the Law Commissioner Stephen Lewis told MPs and key leasehold figures at Westminster. The...
View ArticleCherry Trees retirement flat hit by £9,341 sinking fund exit fee ..
… that’s on top of a £26,950 fall in value after 11 years of ownership A family whose parents owned a one bedroom flat at Anchor’s 59-unit Cherry Trees site in Redcar, Cleveland, have been hit with a...
View ArticleCarlex and AgeUK reject Law Commission draft on exit fees
Law Commission backs developers over huge exit fees, and dumps OFT qualms over ‘likely’ unfair contract terms What began as an exercise supposedly to help pensioners and their families facing exit fees...
View ArticleDCLG stakeholders hear of ‘calamitous’ Law Commission report on exit fees
The DCLG leasehold stakeholders’ group was told yesterday that the Law Commission report into exit and other fees published earlier this month was ‘calamitous’. The study had come about following the...
View ArticlePacked Westminster meeting for leasehold reform
Seventy key figures in the leasehold sector – including some battle-scarred leaseholders – attended a packed Westminster briefing yesterday to hear how leasehold could be reformed. The meeting was...
View ArticlePeverel / FirstPort paid ‘£40,000′ of residents’ contingency fund money to Mr...
In an extraordinary admission, Peverel / FirstPort says it has paid over thousands of pounds of contingency funds at Hillside Court, Ormskirk, to the landlord “by mistake”. Residents estimate that up...
View ArticleLKP is now a registered charity
The Charity Commission this week approved the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership as a registered charity. Its registered details and charitable objectives can be read on the commission’s website here “We...
View ArticleLaw Commissioner Stephen Lewis says LKP is right to expose ‘cowboys’
The Campaign against Residential Leasehold Exploitation has been right to expose “expose the outrageous behaviour of cowboys” in the retirement housing sector, the Law Commissioner Stephen Lewis told...
View ArticleCherry Trees retirement flat hit by £9,341 sinking fund exit fee ..
… that’s on top of a £26,950 fall in value after 11 years of ownership A family whose parents owned a one bedroom flat at Anchor’s 59-unit Cherry Trees site in Redcar, Cleveland, have been hit with a...
View ArticleCampaign against Residential Leasehold Exploitation and AgeUK reject Law...
Law Commission backs developers over huge exit fees, and dumps OFT qualms over ‘likely’ unfair contract terms What began as an exercise supposedly to help pensioners and their families facing exit fees...
View ArticleDCLG stakeholders hear of ‘calamitous’ Law Commission report on exit fees
The DCLG leasehold stakeholders’ group was told yesterday that the Law Commission report into exit and other fees published earlier this month was ‘calamitous’. The study had come about following the...
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APPG, December 6: Park home banditry; Law Commission; Planners barring...
We are all waiting for Sajid Javid The All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and commonhold reform met on December 6 at Westminster. Overshadowing all was the conclusion of Communities Secretary...
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Enfranchisement, commonhold and managing agent regulation are first up for...
For the first time since the 2002 Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act, commonhold is formally back on the agenda. The Law Commission announced today that it is to consider reforms starting with...
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Law Commission sets out how it hopes to create a better deal for leaseholders...
Law Commission sets out today how it proposes to come up with a better deal for leaseholders and will look at alternatives to this system of residential tenure, that is unique to England and Wales....
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Will Law Commission bring in the ‘seismic changes’ that leasehold needs?
Louie Burns, the MD of Leasehold Solutions, has questioned whether the Law Commission’s examination of lease extension and enfranchisement will bring about the “seismic changes” that are needed. Mr...
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Right to Manage added to the ever growing list of leasehold reforms
LKP is very pleased that today sees the launch of the Law Commision review of the now broken right to manage legislation. The full press release from the Law Commision is set out below: Law reform...
View ArticleLaw Commission consultation on enfranchisement
The Law Commision has published the first of their detailed consultations on Enfranchisement. A 546-page document with 1,537 footnotes and 135 questions. The average reader may wonder if they have...
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