Peppercorn ground rents after all?

Leasehold is an emotional rollercoaster.

But this looks like some positive news to start the Bank holiday weekend. Thanks Rachel Maclean MP.

We reserve our judgment until the full announcement is made. questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questi…

This is the point I have been emphatically making, now reinforced by the current Housing Minister. Claims about damage to UK investment or pension fund operations are false and unfounded by any evidence

Lords 'included an amendment to protect leaseholders from costs arising from the new building safety framework, proposing this be capped at £75.'

#BuildingSafetyCrisis

The #HouseOfLords concluded its scrutiny of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill and included amendments to cap costs imposed on tenants for remediation and making shared ownership fairer yourmoney.com/mortgages/lord…

🗣️ [An] excoriating article in The Times and The Sunday Times this weekend. Martina Lees gives an incredibly thorough and well-researched account of the impact of the #cladding scandal.

5️⃣ mentions in Parliament this week!

📰 Read it here: thetimes.co.uk/article/forced…

📺 Watch: youtu.be/FguLwZ_-BGs

Lord Young of Cookham We’re being taken to court next week and are threatened with a CCJ because our freeholder owns leaseholds in our block of flats. 88 people in our block are at risk. This loophole in the Building Safety Act makes us a non relevant building. Pls help…

Leaseholders across East Village London are being drowned in Section 20 Notices, the development is becoming a farce and a national embarrassment Newham London 💙 Mayor of London Lyn Brown 🌹 Seb Coe how was it possible to build something so poorly?

#BuildingSafetyCrisis

Building safety amendments to the Leasehold & Freehold Reform Bill were debated in the Lords today.

Demonstations might be out of order in the gallery 👇 … but so was the lacklustre government response.

Supportive peers will need to move more amendments at Report Stage…

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Good! 30 Tory rebels is enough to wipe out the Govt majority - Angela Rayner 🌹 / Matthew Pennycook MP will you take the opportunity to defeat the Govt and fix the Leasehold bill? It needs:
- Peppercorn GR
- Make RTM easy / the default
- End forfeiture!

Free Leaseholders | Harry Scoffin

.Shaun Bailey knows what it’s like to be a leaseholder, a financial hostage in one’s own home.

But he managed to take back control with Right to Manage.

Refreshing to have an authentic Conservatives politician in the Lords standing up for the Serfs.

#BeefUpTheBill

More support for leaseholders & common sense from Shaun Bailey.
The Bill needs beefing up big time. RTM & share of FH essential.

Also horrifying it could in current form end up legitimising some of the worst practices in the space as 3rd parties evolve their business models.

Update on the committee stage of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform bill:

MAKING THE PROPERTY-OWNING DEMOCRACY REAL

Shaun Bailey has been the Tory terminator in the Lords.

He has been relentless in his drive to beef up the Bill.

Ultimately, he will not stop until leasehold is terminated.

Lords expected to finish Committee stage of Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill today: lordswhips.org.uk/todays-lists

The next stage (Report) is about 2 weeks later, so any time from 15 May.

Still no sign of any government amendments on ground rent.

“Exclusive polling seen by Sky News shows that scrapping leaseholds is a popular policy. Among UK voters, the majority want to see them gone altogether, and for Tory voters the number is higher at 65%.”

Will it be left for The Labour Party to #FreeLeaseholders ? news.sky.com/story/tory-mps…

This is the horror show caused directly as a result of Michael Gove's #BuildingSafetyAct & Health and Safety Executive's #BuildingSafetyRegulator .

Lee Rowley Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities will you intervene to stop this looting from innocent leaseholders? You have created this situation.

#BuildingSafetyCrisis

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Thanks Michael Gove !

EXC: over 30 Tory MPs have written to their chancellor urging the gov to basically scrap ground rents on leasehold properties. Homeowners told me the ‘feudal’ system meant they felt trapped in their own homes - my report with Josh Gafson 👇

Tories channel Thatcher to end the leasehold ponzi

Great to see a sensible caucus of Conservative MPs emerge to defend the property interests of leaseholders.

The salience of the leasehold scandal is growing.

Well done Serena Barker-Singh Josh Gafson for pursuing this story.

Leaseholders trapped by the 'vicious cycle' of charges they pay for properties 'falling into disrepair'.

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