Albert Court W2

02/09/2023

Albert Back to old sad time.

17/06/2022

https://www.leaseholdknowledge.com/labours-lisa-nandy-taunts-tories-over-feudal-leaseholds-meanwhile-pm-channels-thatcher-to-revive-enfranchisement-plans/

By Harry Scoffin Labour will be tougher than the Tories when it comes to “feudal” leaseholds, shadow levelling-up secretary Lisa Nandy has insisted in reply to controversial government plans to boost homeownership through a Right to Buy “benefits to bricks” scheme for welfare claimants in ho...

11/02/2022

https://www.leaseholdknowledge.com/sucking-a-lemon-the-leasehold-advisory-service-notes-the-ground-rent-act-which-it-did-absolutely-nothing-to-assist/?fbclid=IwAR1GaHOrSwI-1nKT9aKDlSMfygURSs5F3YpK2BUQB1aT6Dx3i2aiubFTb3w

The Leasehold Advisory Service, long corroded by close proximity to the commercial interests in leasehold, tersely notes the passing of the enormously important achievement of the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act.

10/02/2022

https://www.leaseholdknowledge.com/as-new-ground-rents-ban-gets-queens-assent-lkp-urges-leaseholders-to-echo-calls-to-action-in-its-submission-to-government-consultation-on-the-next-reforms/?utm_source=Leasehold+Knowledge+Partnership&utm_campaign=b274cbb806-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_99bed8a4b2-b274cbb806-71890873

By Harry Scoffin With the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill now law, LKP publishes its response to the government’s consultation on policies that promise to dramatically improve the position of existing leaseholders. Changes have to follow now that the leasehold sector is deprived of a future. G...

26/01/2022

https://www.facebook.com/254275881296795/posts/5036536649737337/?app=fbl

Taylor Wimpey is to pay for fire safety improvement works at all its sites built over the past 20 years “irrespective of height or whether we retain a legal interest”. Full letter here Taylor Wimpey says “it has long been our view that customers and leaseholders should not bear the cost of inv...

13/01/2022

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/more-leaseholders-to-own-their-own-buildings-under-government-proposals

Leaseholders in England and Wales could find it easier and cheaper to buy the freehold of their building under radical new proposals to create a fairer housing system.

12/01/2022

https://www.leaseholdknowledge.com/in-gove-we-trust-but-developers-can-pay-cash/

It is difficult to exaggerate the cultural shift that has occurred owing to Michael Gove's dictat that leaseholders - even those in sub-18 metre low-rises - are not to be made to pay a penny for build safety defects.

12/01/2022

https://thenegotiator.co.uk/latest-government-launches-major-shake-up-of-leasehold-enfranchisement/

The government has announced a consultation on its latest and wide-ranging proposals to shake up...

18/12/2021

https://www.leaseholdknowledge.com/vicky-pollard-property-tribunal-yes-but-no-but-you-have-been-ripped-off-over-insurance-but-no-we-cant-do-anything-about-it/

By Harry Scoffin A leaseholder established in tribunal that he had been overcharged on insurance between 2011 and 2019, but he is not going to get any of the money back. Nilesh Solanki, a 58-year-old motor industry professional who owns a flat in a block of 10 in Harrow, north-west London, argued th...

26/11/2021

https://www.leaseholdknowledge.com/lkp-accredited-managing-agent-premier-block-management-opens-pandoras-box-by-inviting-critical-social-media-reviews/

By Harry Scoffin In an unregulated sector where developers and freehold investors call the shots in the management of apartment blocks, managing agents habitually ignore the voice of the disempowered flat owners who pay their wages. There is some smoke-and-mirrors marketing guff about leaseholders ...

05/08/2021

https://www.facebook.com/254275881296795/posts/4438501722874169/?app=fbl

Leaseholders at 173 buildings managed by FirstPort in England are being charged fees for applications to the taxpayer-financed Building Safety Fund (BSF) and for other fire safety inspections.