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After Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation, the Daily Mail takes an interest in Grant Shapps’ colourful business career
September 18, 2012 By
Mechanised plagiarism and psycho-babble are Grant Shapps’ little earners outside politics
September 10, 2012 By
Michael Heseltine it isn’t … but ex-Housing Minister and Tory chairman Grant Shapps has a flourishing little publishing business to fall back upon in the event that his political career comes to a grinding halt. Run out of squalid little offices in Enfield, north London, the Shapps family offer codswollop Freudian analysis of dreams and […]
Grant Shapps cuts Wikipedia references to property tycoons’ donations to his private office
September 10, 2012 By
The Observer revealed yesterday that the former Housing Minister and new Tory party chairman Grant Shapps deleted Wikipedia references to donations from property interests to his private office. He did so secretly, breaking the online encyclopedia’s code of practice which urges that those changing information in personal entries first identify themselves. The original entry, the […]
Why does Shapps want to regulate park homes, but not leasehold?
August 9, 2012 By
Housing Minister Grant Shapps is alone in resisting leasehold regulation saying it will add to costs and landlords don’t want it … even though the British Property Federation, which represents the country’s largest landlords, has assured LKP that it favours the move. But why – for the sake of consistency – does this minister feel […]
Shapps grilled on TV, leasehold report and OFT statement on exit fees
August 9, 2012 By
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 […]
No regulation, but I may make changes to leasehold, says Shapps
July 17, 2012 By
Housing minister Grant Shapps has ruled out statutory regulation of the leasehold sector, but may well introduce measures to improve Leasehold Valuation Tribunals. Furthermore, an announcement on the fraught issue of “exit fees” in the leasehold retirement sector, which are payable when a flat is sold, can be expected soon. These have been the subject […]
Such a lonely and obstinate Shapps: minister alone against regulation
April 3, 2012 By
The body representing the most powerful interests in British property fully supports greater regulation of the leasehold sector – leaving Housing Minister Grant Shapps isolated in blocking regulation. That was the main finding of LKP’s meeting with the British Property Federation’s chief executive Liz Peace and Ian Fletcher, who heads the BPF’s residential division. The […]
London Assembly prepares evidence for leasehold report
January 20, 2012 By
The London Assembly report into the woes of leaseholders is shaping up to create a rift with central government, and particularly Housing Minister Grant Schapps. The Assembly is still gathering evidence, but what it has accumulated so far is pretty damning. With more than 90 written detailed written submissions there has never been such a […]
