{"id":113305,"date":"2019-12-28T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T07:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/mortgage-prisoner-ive-been-told-i-cant-sell-for-years\/"},"modified":"2019-12-28T14:20:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T07:20:03","slug":"mortgage-prisoner-ive-been-told-i-cant-sell-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/mortgage-prisoner-ive-been-told-i-cant-sell-for-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage prisoner: \u2018I\u2019ve been told I can\u2019t sell for years\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIn the wake of the Grenfell disaster, owners of high-rise apartments are finding their flats are worth zeroHigh-rise flat owners are effectively being told they may not be able to sell up or remortgage for several years unless the new government steps in to sort out a safety row.Those affected could include Jack McGurran, who was looking to sell his flat so he could buy a bigger place, but now probably won\u2019t be going anywhere for a while. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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In the wake of the Grenfell disaster, owners of high-rise apartments are finding their flats...<\/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-113305","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-ttv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":110483,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lbs-available-for-flat-owners-with-outstanding-mortgage-loan-of-over-5000\/","url_meta":{"origin":113305,"position":0},"title":"LBS available for flat owners with outstanding mortgage loan of over $5,000","date":"September 4, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Flat owners with outstanding mortgage loans of more than $5,000 can now take up the LBS \u201cas long as the proceeds from the lease sale are sufficient to fully discharge the loan. 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