{"id":107984,"date":"2019-06-11T20:57:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T13:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/watchdog-investigates-leasehold-trap-for-uk-homebuyers\/"},"modified":"2019-06-11T21:06:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T14:06:14","slug":"watchdog-investigates-leasehold-trap-for-uk-homebuyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/watchdog-investigates-leasehold-trap-for-uk-homebuyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Watchdog investigates 'leasehold trap' for UK homebuyers"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nCompetition and Markets Authority to look at mis-selling and potentially unfair contractsUK homeowners at risk of falling into the so-called \u201cleasehold trap\u201d could benefit from a new official investigation into potential misleading practices and unfair terms.The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said its inquiry into the leasehold market \u2013 the latest in a line of investigations \u2013 would look at whether consumers were being treated fairly. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Competition and Markets Authority to look at mis-selling and potentially unfair contractsUK homeowners at risk...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-s5G","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":114608,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/watchdog-to-take-housebuilders-to-court-in-leasehold-crackdown\/","url_meta":{"origin":107984,"position":0},"title":"Watchdog to take housebuilders to court in leasehold crackdown","date":"February 28, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"\r UK Competition and Markets Authority finds \u2018potential mis-selling and unfair contracts\u2019\r \r Source : ft.com\r Read more...Watchdog to take housebuilders to court in leasehold crackdown","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":114603,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/watchdog-to-act-as-uk-homebuyers-misled-and-overcharged\/","url_meta":{"origin":107984,"position":1},"title":"Watchdog to act as UK homebuyers 'misled and overcharged'","date":"February 28, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Competition and Markets Authority says it will do all it can to help leaseholdersAn investigation by the competition watchdog has found \u201ctroubling evidence\u201d that leasehold homeowners and prospective buyers were being misled and charged excessive fees by developers.The Competition and Markets Authority said it would do everything it could\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":128809,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/thousands-more-homeowners-in-uk-to-be-refunded-for-doubling-ground-rents\/","url_meta":{"origin":107984,"position":2},"title":"Thousands more homeowners in UK to be refunded for doubling ground rents","date":"August 24, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Competition watchdog cracks down on \u2018unfair\u2019 leasehold terms that trapped people in properties they could not sellThousands more homeowners who paid a doubled ground rent on their property will get a refund after the competition watchdog cracked down on \u201cunfair\u201d leasehold practices.More than 5,000 households in the UK will\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":123947,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/taylor-wimpey-drops-costly-leasehold-terms-after-investigation\/","url_meta":{"origin":107984,"position":3},"title":"Taylor Wimpey drops costly leasehold terms after investigation","date":"December 22, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Thousands will be freed from contracts where ground rent charges doubled every 10 yearsThousands of people who bought leasehold homes from the housebuilder Taylor Wimpey will be liberated from terms where their ground rent charges doubled every 10 years, after a long-running investigation by the UK competition watchdog. 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