{"id":141392,"date":"2024-01-19T23:41:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T16:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/tell-us-have-you-experienced-issues-with-extending-leases-or-high-ground-rents\/"},"modified":"2024-01-19T23:58:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T16:58:12","slug":"tell-us-have-you-experienced-issues-with-extending-leases-or-high-ground-rents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/tell-us-have-you-experienced-issues-with-extending-leases-or-high-ground-rents\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell us: have you experienced issues with extending leases or high ground rents?"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWe would like to hear from people in England and Wales who have had issues trying to extend their leases \u2013 and those experiencing exorbitant ground rentsThe government\u2019s leasehold reform bill, which aims to make it easier and cheaper for leaseholders in houses and flats in England and Wales to extend their lease and buy the freehold is at committee scrutiny stage. The bill will also ban leaseholds on newly built houses \u2013 but not flats in England and Wales.MPs have criticised freeholders in England and Wales for charging \u201cexorbitant\u201d ground rents of up to \u00a38,000 a year. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
\nRead more…Tell us: have you experienced issues with extending leases or high ground rents?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We would like to hear from people in England and Wales who have had issues...<\/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-141392","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-AMw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":141376,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/freeholders-living-off-rentier-structure-with-exorbitant-ground-rent-mps-say\/","url_meta":{"origin":141392,"position":0},"title":"Freeholders living off \u2018rentier structure\u2019 with \u2018exorbitant\u2019 ground rent, MPs say","date":"January 19, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"\r MPs questioned freeholder groups in committee hearing over leasehold reform billMPs have laid into freeholders for creating a \u201crentier structure\u201d in England and Wales in recent years, charging \u201cexorbitant\u201d ground rents of \u00a38,000 a year in some cases, as a freeholder group pushed back against proposed changes to leasehold\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":170379,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/rayner-urges-government-to-stand-firm-over-250-ground-rents-cap\/","url_meta":{"origin":141392,"position":1},"title":"Rayner urges government to stand firm over \u00a3250 ground rents cap","date":"January 28, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Former deputy PM warns against \u2018vested interests\u2019 trying to block measures for leaseholders in England and WalesFreeholders may \u201cresort to lawfare\u201d to block the government\u2019s \u00a3250 cap on ground rents, Angela Rayner has warned, as leasehold experts urged ministers to speed up the \u201cglacial\u201d pace of reform.Keir Starmer announced\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":136660,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-guardian-view-on-tory-housing-policy-profits-ahead-of-people-editorial\/","url_meta":{"origin":141392,"position":2},"title":"The Guardian view on Tory housing policy: profits ahead of people | Editorial","date":"May 13, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"\r No 10 blocked a vote-winning proposal to end leaseholding \u2013 wary of picking a fight with wealthy donorsThe leasehold system of property ownership in England and Wales is a feudal relic, a hangover from the middle ages when powerful families wanted to retain ownership of their land while maximising\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":61686,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/leaseholds-on-new-build-houses-in-england-to-be-banned\/","url_meta":{"origin":141392,"position":3},"title":"Leaseholds on new-build houses in England to be banned","date":"July 25, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Ground rents on flats could also be cut to zero under proposals to be outlined by communities secretary Sajid JavidBuilders are to be banned by the government from selling houses as leasehold in England and ground rents on flats could be cut to zero following widespread outrage over exploitative\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":62180,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/we-have-to-end-the-horror-of-this-feudal-leasehold-system\/","url_meta":{"origin":141392,"position":4},"title":"We have to end the horror of this feudal leasehold system","date":"July 29, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r We could publish horror stories every week \u2013 and not just on doubling ground rentsThe entire parasitic structure of leasehold in England and Wales is, finally, beginning to wobble \u2013 and with a bit more prodding we could see it crash. 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