March 29, 2024

Park home owners demo against 10% sales commissions

Park home owners marched on 10 Downing Street on September 18 to protest against the 10% resale commissions levied on their properties at resale by site owners. Chanting “We pay 10%. What do we want? Zero!” a delegation headed by Sonia McColl OBE, the veteran park home leader, accompanied by Sir Peter Bottomley, delivered a […]

Park home demonstrators demand end to 10% sales fees – as litany of crooked practice reported to MPs

Around 80 park home owners converged on 10 Downing Street yesterday to deliver a blunt message demanding reform of their scandal-hit corner of the retirement housing market. The residents, mainly in their 70s, are furious at the skulduggerous behaviour of certain park home owners – and, truth be told, have little good to say about […]

At last media take up theft of Sonia McColl OBE’s mobile home

Today we have at last got the theft of the mobile home of Sonia McColl OBE into the national media, with a brilliant report by Melanie Abbot on BBC R4 You & Yours. The item can be heard at below at 19.22, and LKP thanks Melanie Abbot for this report, and many others concerning leasehold […]

Park home champion Sonia McColl OBE has her own home stolen!

UPDATE: November 29 2017: The Sun newspaper has now reported this story: Widow’s horror after thieves steal her entire MOTOR HOME A WIDOW has had her £30,000 motor home stolen, left with just the curtains she was hoping to install in her new home. Sonia McColl, 70, said she had been left feeling vulnerable after […]