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Recent Posts:
- McCarthy and Stone makes ‘goodwill’ payment of £40,000 to Oak Court, but leaseholder drops article for LKP after phone call from the company’s lawyer
- Platinum Skies: £63,000 loss on £130,000 shared ownership retirement flat after new owner died 25 days after moving in
- Shared ownership: Immensely complex; nothing shared when it comes to costs; clever ‘investors’ scent a revenue source to replace ground rents
- Park home owners demo against 10% sales commissions
- Three quarters of Churchill Retirement flats have lost money when resold, says The Times
- Your chance to say what you think about retirement housing before September 18
- We need retirement ground rent gaming like a hole in the head, says ARCO
- Investors see gold in retirement housing, but oldies have taken a look and remain wary … Brighter developers are pushing for change
- Retirement housing won’t grow until oldies are offered a product that they can trust, says head of ARCO
- Why I took Woodlands Court to right to manage, why it works and why I want the authorities to intervene in this scandal hit sector
- Taking over from Bob Bessell as head of Retirement Security retirement community provider: What we offer and why
- Legal and General explains why it is investing in Inspired Villages, and wants reforms to the sector
- Bottomley to raise with Churchill Retirement its decision to continue charging ground rents
- Park home demonstrators demand end to 10% sales fees – as litany of crooked practice reported to MPs
- Letter to Michael Gove: Housing association retirement living … is much improved if there is badgering by a determined resident
- French resi service group Emeria clears out FirstPort management in take-over
- Retirement housebuilder Platinum Skies breached shared ownership rules with onerous ‘staircasing’ charges in the lease
- Dudley Joiner’s Team Property Management that also managed RTM retirement sites goes bust owing £635,958
- Pensioner loses £130,000 to escape Roseland Parc Retirement Village. But it is worth it, she says …
- Pensioners face £150,000 fire safety bill at Cestrian Court, but McCarthy and Stone isn’t reponsible (nor is FirstPort)
- The Times says families ‘lost £3 billion’ on resales of leasehold retirement flats, while developers and freehold speculators made millions
- Churchill Retirement donates £150,000 to Conservatives. To retain ground rents, by any chance?
- Guardian reports dismal retirement flat re-sale prices, as seller ponders £28,000 offer
- Your Housing Group shared equity retirement flat that sold for £38,000 on ITV
- Elderly Accommodation Counsel says ‘recent retirement flat resales have increased in value’
- Family save £25,000 over McCarthy and Stone shared equity lease, thanks to Better Retirement Housing
- Government will cave in to retirement house builders over ground rents, says Times
- £15,000 for Pegasus Court leasehold retirement flat in Rochdale – which once sold for £85,000
- MP Huw Merriman tells prime minister retirement ground rents should be zero
- Your Housing Group shared equity retirement flat sells for £39,000, after three years on the market
- Family outraged by £50,000 exit fee at Retirement Villages’ Mayford Grange
- Move beyond feudal leases, says Association of Retirement Community Operators
- Downsizing pensioners assailed by ‘fleecehold’ charges, reports Daily Mail
- Rectory Court slashes service charges after dumping Stonewater for right to manage LKP accredited managing agent
- VAT on house managers’ wages will cost leaseholders £50m a year, says Rendall and Rittner
- Did government concession on ground rents stuff new thinking in retirement housing?
- VAT added to cost of house managers from November
- ARHM: This time the impetus to reform leasehold is serious …
- Retirement housing message to Clive Betts MP’s Select Committee
- APPG July 11: Robust debate over retirement ground rents and event fees
- APPG July 11: Retirement event fees ‘align interests of buyers and operators’, Michael Voges tells meeting
- APPG July 11: The case for ground rents from McCarthy and Stone
- APPG July 11: Retirement fees whether ground rents or event fees need to be for designated services not open-ended profits, says AgeUK
- ARCO conference offers a different vision to retirement housing, but …
- McCarthy and Stone and Churchill: are you blackmailing government over the ground rent ban and is your business model broken? Asks BBC R4 MoneyBox
- Clive Fenton to stand down as CEO of McCarthy and Stone after profits slump
- Anti-ground rent trade body ARCO snubbed at retirement housing conference … (along with us, less surprisingly)
- Points to consider when buying a new retirement flat …
- LKP helps raise £14,682 for park home champion Sonia McColl OBE
- Anchor and Hanover in talks to merge
- Tchenguiz brothers fall out among themselves, says The Times
- Please exempt retirement housebuilders from ground rent ban, pleads Sir Desmond Swayne
- Complain to Advertising Standards Authority about misleading ‘home ownership’ when applied to retirement leasehold tenancies
- Love over 50: something we can agree about with McCarthy and Stone
- Dear Mr Fenton: I don’t regret my purchase at Rosewood Court, but ‘leasehold is a rip-off’
- McCarthy and Stone: we want you to succeed, but you don’t need ground rents
- Park home pensioners demand MPs dump the British Holiday and Home Parks Association from its All Party Parliamentary Group
- FirstPort Retirement is admitted to ARMA – finally
- ARCO snubs McCarthy and Stone / Churchill by saying there is no need for ground rents
- £4,000 sublet fee at Butler’s Place
- At last media take up theft of Sonia McColl OBE’s mobile home
- Park home champion Sonia McColl OBE has her own home stolen!
- Sebastian O’Kelly addresses the retirement property managers. Were you lynched? No, they agreed: leasehold ‘granny flats’ have no future
- ARHM cannot see a future in traditional ‘granny flat’ volume retirement sales
- A second backbench debate on leasehold issues
- Dudley Joiner and park home landlord Barry Weir named in Commons … and LEASE chair Roger Southam invited to resign
- Pensioners tell property manager Dudley Joiner: give back our £27,000 sinking fund
- Resale disaster zone: Burlington Court in Bridlington, where one flat has sold for £36,000
- Elderly Accommodation Counsel says half new-build retirement flats fall in value on resale
- Ground rents are essential to McCarthy and Stone’s business model
- Legal & General snaps up Inspired Retirement Villages
- Pensioners hammered with 88% rise in ground rents
- Our ground rents are fair, says McCarthy and Stone (even though they go up to £600 and are for no service whatsoever)
- FirstPort’s estate agency Retirement Homesearch sees rise in homes for sale
- Elim Court: If you want right to manage, this is how NOT to go about it
- 4% of McCarthy and Stone earnings come from ground rents
- Goodbye, Carlex. Hello, Better Retirement Housing
- LKP patron Sir Ed Davey returns to Parliament
- DCLG stakeholders hear of ‘calamitous’ Law Commission report on exit fees
- FirstPort fined £360,000 over fatal fire at Gibson Court
- Law Commission: you will create an investment asset class, not protections for pensioners
- My granny’s Audley Retirement home ‘was a money pit’ costing £48,000 in exit fees
- Law Commission’s tokenistic report helps retirement house builders and freehold investors, not families needing to house a relative
- Israel Moskovitz humiliated as Elim Court wins right to manage in Court of Appeal
- Fryzer Property Services lifts ‘ban’ on relatives at major works meeting
- Victoria Derbyshire told ‘we must end cheating speculators in leasehold housing’
- ‘If I fail to offend anyone, I will do it next time,’ Bottomley tells appalled LEASE conference
- Housing minister says LEASE must be on the side of leaseholders, and promises more money
- Housing minister urges transparency over retirement exit fees
- The day the Leasehold Advisory Service was returned to leaseholders
- FirstPort blamed over leak at Homemead House
- Labour to cap ‘legalised extortion’ of ground rents and end leasehold houses
- BBC One Show warnings over retirement housing’s ‘sting in the tail’
- Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation and AgeUK reject Law Commission draft on exit fees
- Man, 90, dies in fire at Homepine House
- Disgraceful leasehold houses reported in The Guardian today
- Pauline Jones brings right to manage to retirement sites in the North West
- 99% of FirstPort’s 3,800 service charge accounts are up to date
- Low cost right to manage, from Urban Owners (which has done nearly 500 of them)
- The Guardian reports the £8,000 a year ground rents at Blythe Court
Queen Charlotte Villas. Ainsdale. Southport. In the past I have had a problem or two with Countrywide, but with the help of my MP Dr Pugh and the Leasehold Advisory Service I managed to overcome them? but I find that the DCLG have taken on board the recent CEO of Countrywide and the DCLG being as Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation states the paymasters of LEASE have appointed Margaret Longden another executive to their board. Countrywide who Instill a lot of grief to leaseholders now have two previous executives in prominent positions in the leasehold world, Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation will need to watch their backs now as they fight to help leaseholders, and as for Countrywide they should be shut down with their past and current record.