Elim Court in Plymouth has escaped from its right to manage debacle by the skin of its teeth, having been led to near ruin by right to manage facilitators. After having had its right to manage application turned down in the lower tribunal (freeholder’s costs: £10,000) and then thrown out by the upper tribunal (freeholder’s […]
Archives for July 2017
4% of McCarthy and Stone earnings come from ground rents
July 26, 2017 By
The announcement yesterday by Sajid Javid, Communities Secretary, that he is to ban the sale of leasehold houses and reduce ground rents on new properties to “as low as” zero resulted from months of work by the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership. It will have a marked effect on McCarthy and Stone, according to an article in […]
Goodbye, Carlex. Hello, Better Retirement Housing
July 22, 2017 By
Not without sadness, the trustees of the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership have decided to close the website of the Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation. It has been replaced with a new site called Better Retirement Housing, www.betterretirementhousing.com This site includes all the news archives and comments of the old website. We had been feeling for some […]
