{"id":114608,"date":"2020-02-28T20:55:39","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T13:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/watchdog-to-take-housebuilders-to-court-in-leasehold-crackdown\/"},"modified":"2020-02-28T22:07:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T15:07:50","slug":"watchdog-to-take-housebuilders-to-court-in-leasehold-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/watchdog-to-take-housebuilders-to-court-in-leasehold-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Watchdog to take housebuilders to court in leasehold crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nUK Competition and Markets Authority finds \u2018potential mis-selling and unfair contracts\u2019
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\nSource : ft.com
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UK Competition and Markets Authority finds \u2018potential mis-selling and unfair contracts\u2019 Source : ft.com ...<\/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-114608","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-tOw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38667,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/housebuilders-must-halt-leasehold-sale-of-new-houses-says-minister\/","url_meta":{"origin":114608,"position":0},"title":"Housebuilders must halt leasehold sale of new houses, says minister","date":"December 21, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Government raises possibility of compensation for those already affectedMajor housebuilders such as Taylor Wimpey and Persimmon may be forced to spend millions compensating home buyers locked into unfair leasehold contracts, following a warning by housing minister Gavin Barwell.Amid accusations in the House of Commons of \u201cthe PPI scandal of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":75089,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/housebuilders-hit-as-investors-take-fright-at-governments-leasehold-ban\/","url_meta":{"origin":114608,"position":1},"title":"Housebuilders hit as investors take fright at Government's leasehold ban","date":"December 21, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r \r \r Source : telegraph.co.uk\r Read more...Housebuilders hit as investors take fright at Government's leasehold ban","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":75069,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/ban-on-leasehold-sales-hit-housebuilders-mccarthy-stone-drops-14\/","url_meta":{"origin":114608,"position":2},"title":"Ban on leasehold sales hit housebuilders; 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