Leasehold Knowledge Partnership
Advising leaseholders. Avoiding disasters.
Stopping forfeiture. Exposing abuses.
Urging reform …
We advise leaseholders on the perils and pitfalls of the leasehold system, and on how to succeed in a system that is rigged against them by commercial interests
The Leasehold Knowledge Partnership seeks to report the news from the leasehold sector that affects those who pay for the whole edifice: leaseholders
LKP is secretariat of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and commonhold reform, which in the last Parliament had 177 MPs and front bencher ‘friends’
Our accredited block managing agents support the self-governance by flat owners that is standard across the world, except in England and Wales
Trying to prevent the disempowered from losing in the leasehold game
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News

MPs aghast at Liam Spender’s account of being a leaseholder litigant. It is like ‘being a laboratory animal in a maze controlled by freehold-owning landlords and their enablers’

Ruling blasts Israel Moskovitz’s lawyers for ‘wasting tribunal time’ in legal warfare that is ‘part of a pattern’, as RTM gains control of £69,000 funds
Latest

Might consumer protection law be a silver bullet against freeholders’ escalating ground rents? (And the threat to reform?)

LKP’s guide for leaseholders to respond to government’s proposed permitted insurance fees: the good and not so good

Leaseholders win control of 1,132-flat Chelsea Bridge Wharf … which means they also manage the HQ of housebuilder the Berkeley Group

Why it is going to be so important to shout in 2025 – and loudly – when government sets the leasehold Deferment Rate

Leaseholders in Ilfracombe can claim legal costs against wideboy freeholders over £2.6m wrongly demanded service charges, says Court of Appeal

Spender wards off attempt to frustrate his appeal over £590,000 ‘contract for eternity’ intercom systems

Cladding disaster will cost £16.6 billion, says National Audit Office. Million people stuck in dangerous homes. 2035 is end date for the debacle. Oh, and £500,000 has been stolen (so far)…

Might consumer protection law be a silver bullet against freeholders’ escalating ground rents? (And the threat to reform?)

LKP’s guide for leaseholders to respond to government’s proposed permitted insurance fees: the good and not so good

Leaseholders win control of 1,132-flat Chelsea Bridge Wharf … which means they also manage the HQ of housebuilder the Berkeley Group

Why it is going to be so important to shout in 2025 – and loudly – when government sets the leasehold Deferment Rate

Leaseholders in Ilfracombe can claim legal costs against wideboy freeholders over £2.6m wrongly demanded service charges, says Court of Appeal

Spender wards off attempt to frustrate his appeal over £590,000 ‘contract for eternity’ intercom systems
£100,000
Peverel / FirstPort pays compo – ‘goodwill gesture’ – after collusive tendering racket for electronic door entry systems at retirement sites.
£12 million
Legal and General prompted to pick up the full Grenfell cladding removal cost at Blenheim Centre / Reflexion in Hounslow.
£130 million
Taylor Wimpey puts aside £130 million to re-write the doubling ground rent leases which it dumped on its customers.
£5 billion
After nearly four years of indecision and then piecemeal measures – and still no help from freehold ‘building owners’ – government sets up a cladding removal fund. But …
Would any of this have happened without the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership?
Miseries of shared ownership

Shared ‘ownership’ is NOT ownership. It’s the ‘pay-day loan’ of housing and most regret having bought, London Assembly told

Tory MP Stephen McPartland shames Long Harbour / Adriatic Land into dropping doubling ground rent leases

Advertising Standards Authority rules against Notting Hill Genesis on over-egged shared ownership adverts

Platinum Skies: £63,000 loss on £130,000 shared ownership retirement flat after new owner died 25 days after moving in

Shared ownership: Immensely complex; nothing shared when it comes to costs; clever ‘investors’ scent a revenue source to replace ground rents

APPG on shared ownership: L&Q wrong to hard sell ‘Black Friday’ knock-off flats to buyers. Urgent need for shared ownership re-sale data to be on Land Registry

Court of Appeal backs rights of 200,000 shared ownership leaseholders after right to manage duel with Israel Moskovitz

Metropolitan housing association MTVH tells MPs: we won’t collect ground rent, we have ditched marriage value and all leases are 990 years (where possible)

Retirement housebuilder Platinum Skies breached shared ownership rules with onerous ‘staircasing’ charges in the lease

Shared ownership: a misnomer that can be worse than renting and worse than leasehold, says solicitor

Brexit day prisoner: Polish father desperate to sell Notting Hill Genesis cladding flat to join ailing family back home

Shared ‘ownership’ is NOT ownership. It’s the ‘pay-day loan’ of housing and most regret having bought, London Assembly told

Tory MP Stephen McPartland shames Long Harbour / Adriatic Land into dropping doubling ground rent leases

Advertising Standards Authority rules against Notting Hill Genesis on over-egged shared ownership adverts

Platinum Skies: £63,000 loss on £130,000 shared ownership retirement flat after new owner died 25 days after moving in

Shared ownership: Immensely complex; nothing shared when it comes to costs; clever ‘investors’ scent a revenue source to replace ground rents

APPG on shared ownership: L&Q wrong to hard sell ‘Black Friday’ knock-off flats to buyers. Urgent need for shared ownership re-sale data to be on Land Registry

Court of Appeal backs rights of 200,000 shared ownership leaseholders after right to manage duel with Israel Moskovitz

Metropolitan housing association MTVH tells MPs: we won’t collect ground rent, we have ditched marriage value and all leases are 990 years (where possible)

Retirement housebuilder Platinum Skies breached shared ownership rules with onerous ‘staircasing’ charges in the lease

Shared ownership: a misnomer that can be worse than renting and worse than leasehold, says solicitor

Brexit day prisoner: Polish father desperate to sell Notting Hill Genesis cladding flat to join ailing family back home

Shared ‘ownership’ is NOT ownership. It’s the ‘pay-day loan’ of housing and most regret having bought, London Assembly told
Ground rent scandal

Open letter to Taylor Wimpey: If you cared about sorting out your ground rent mess, you can pay back the money your own ex-customers have wasted over this scandal

Reverse ferret: Taylor Wimpey NOW agrees to sort out re-sale buyers of its rip-off ground rent leasehold properties

Time to tell MPs what you think about the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill – and why it must not be nobbled

Clive Betts: removing onerous ground rents is ‘completely compatible with the European convention on human rights’

Freeholders face £27.3bn fall in asset values if ground rents reduced to peppercorn, says government

CMA slaps down doubling ground rents of 15 punters who bought cheating freeholds from Countryside Properties plc

Blunder forces Pier Management and debt collector JB Leitch to scrap £3,265 late ground rent bill (and forfeiture threat that accompanied it)

Sucking a lemon, the Leasehold Advisory Service notes the ground rent Act – which it did absolutely nothing to assist

Open letter to Taylor Wimpey: If you cared about sorting out your ground rent mess, you can pay back the money your own ex-customers have wasted over this scandal

Reverse ferret: Taylor Wimpey NOW agrees to sort out re-sale buyers of its rip-off ground rent leasehold properties

Time to tell MPs what you think about the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill – and why it must not be nobbled

Clive Betts: removing onerous ground rents is ‘completely compatible with the European convention on human rights’

Freeholders face £27.3bn fall in asset values if ground rents reduced to peppercorn, says government

CMA slaps down doubling ground rents of 15 punters who bought cheating freeholds from Countryside Properties plc

Blunder forces Pier Management and debt collector JB Leitch to scrap £3,265 late ground rent bill (and forfeiture threat that accompanied it)

Sucking a lemon, the Leasehold Advisory Service notes the ground rent Act – which it did absolutely nothing to assist
