🚨 We first warned govt about these impending enormous costs over 2 years ago.

❌ Unfortunately, the Building Safety Act means that innocent leaseholders are being forced to pay huge sums to put right decades of wrongdoing by the state and industry.

telegraph.co.uk/money/property…

Concerns have been raised about progress of remediation work on buildings with unsafe materials, >a year after developers signed a contract with govt

“We need a more interventionist approach from Government ministers to speed up the remediation process'
politicshome.com/news/article/g…

ICYMI, our piece on the Tory MPs urging the government to reduce ground rent on leasehold properties, and the leaseholders bearing the brunt of the overall 'feudal' system that's currently in place. 🏡

As a new bill to ban the sale of leasehold houses faces Conservative opposition in the Commons, Sky spoke to leaseholders who feel trapped by the 'vicious cycle' of charges they pay for properties 'falling into disrepair' ⬇️

Read more 🔗 trib.al/HPJluBj

Londoners go to the polls this week; who should leaseholders, of which there are quite a few in London, vote for if they want to see their situation and rights improved? Difficult to tell really.

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

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 👇

Why is Gove ⁦Michael Gove⁩ suggesting yet another expensive layer of management on freehold towers of leasehold flats to control their Managing Agents? Leaseholders must have the right to hire only MAs who put them first and sack the ones who don’t! archive.ph/2024.04.30-182…

The winds of change are powerful on housing.

From renters reform to ending leasehold, Westminster is failing.

Vested interests are being put before pro-growth, pro-people policies.

Without radical change, the eventual blowback from voters will be devastating.

In London, home to the greatest concentration of leaseholders anywhere in Britain, Mayoral candidates right to left are silent on the legal abuses by Freeholders. Reform of Leasehold/Freehold law is a priority even if elected officials pretend it’s not! standard.co.uk/news/politics/…

Later on, I made an attempt at forcing the government (and estate agents, solicitors and surveyors) to be honest.

Stop saying leaseholders are home-OWNERS. We aren't.

At least tell the truth to first-time buyers. This is lease rental, and should be advertised as such. Stop…

There are no words to express the trauma innocent people affected by the #BuildingSafetyCrisis are going through every single day.
Our thanks to Martina Lees for this thorough & moving account of how ordinary people have been failed & harmed by Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities & the construction industry.

The 15,000 post Grenfell sufferers who live all over the country, homeless, dispossessed, many still paying the mortgage on the home they cannot use bit.ly/3UxB4Ct

Taken from another source this morning.
Written as a joke but in all honesty why aren't service charges considered in affordability checks?
There would be many disappointed applicants BUT it would highlight the reality and provide more evidence that the system sucks.
NLC - LEASEHOLD CAMPAIGNER - #reLEASE us

The sobering reality for millions of leaseholders in the country today, thanks to the government & Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities created #BuildingSafetyCrisis , & politicians putting donations from freeholders & the construction industry over leasehold reform.

'The building safety crisis has trapped 700,000 people in dangerous homes and left almost three million owners with flats they cannot sell. Almost all are properties built or refurbished since 2000'

🚨Over 15,000 made homeless.

Martina Lees reports 👇
thetimes.co.uk/article/forced…

Flat owners ‘held to ransom’ after service charge trebles

Annual insurance premium has risen from around £10,000 to £310,000

Notting Hill Genesis also shocked by the increase premium sourced by the freeholder, but left with no choice.

Jen Mills Metro

metro.co.uk/2024/04/28/lon…

❗'Since the Grenfell Fire of 2017 more than 15,000 residents have been forced to leave homes due to fire or fire safety defects. And evacuations are on the rise'

❌ @MichaelGove Lee Rowley when will this nightmare end❓

#BuildingSafetyCrisis

archive.ph/2024.04.27-234…

Scandal of the cladding victims left homeless, a much-needed and ever-meticulous update from ⁦Martina Lees⁩

thetimes.co.uk/article/34c5aa…

Mine is unsellable (I tried in January)

And I’m unclear whether it’s unsafe as I no longer trust the judgement or communication of my MA, Freeholder or the Safety Inspectors.