Today both Housing Minister Grant Shapps and Siobhan McGrath, the senior barrister who presides over the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal system, face the cameras as part of the Channel Four Dispatches documentary into leasehold. The programme will be shown on August 20. A second Dispatches programme on retirement leasehold is also nearing completition, although it has […]
Archives for August 2012
Pay back my £1,150 exit fee, or we are off to court
August 3, 2012 By
Veteran Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation supporter Susan Wood is considering legal action against the retirement development landlord Fairhold on the thorny issue of exit fees and wants back £1,150. The case concerns her deceased father’s flat at Kings Court, in Sheffield, where Wood and her two siblings were charged two per cent exit fees […]
Should this lady agree to sub-letting? Comments please
August 2, 2012 By
Dear Sir, or Madam, I have been living in a retirement flat that I bought nine years ago with a 99year lease. The freeholder and manager is a registered housing association. In the past there has never been a problem in selling these flats which were built in 1985 as they are in a very […]
