{"id":170293,"date":"2026-01-25T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/theyre-trying-to-milk-us-leaseholders-tell-of-soaring-charges-amid-labour-reform-delays\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T08:26:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:26:41","slug":"theyre-trying-to-milk-us-leaseholders-tell-of-soaring-charges-amid-labour-reform-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/theyre-trying-to-milk-us-leaseholders-tell-of-soaring-charges-amid-labour-reform-delays\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They\u2019re trying to milk us\u2019: leaseholders tell of soaring charges amid Labour reform delays"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nSome residents say they are facing financial ruin as government\u2019s long-awaited law changes stall\u201cI don\u2019t say this lightly, but I feel traumatised by this,\u201d said Sarah*, a leaseholder who owns a one-bedroom flat in Moseley, south Birmingham. \u201cEvery time I open the front door to my house I\u2019m expecting some frightening letter with lots of zeros on it. It has ruined my life, to be honest.\u201dSarah works full-time as a school teacher, but has been forced to take up a second job to pay the spiralling bills from the management company of her building. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Some residents say they are facing financial ruin as government\u2019s long-awaited law changes stall\u201cI don\u2019t...<\/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-170293","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-IiF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":169870,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/rayner-urges-starmer-to-keep-promise-on-leasehold-reform\/","url_meta":{"origin":170293,"position":0},"title":"Rayner urges Starmer to keep promise on leasehold reform","date":"January 20, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Ex-deputy PM says government must stick to plans to cap charges for leaseholders in England and WalesIs this Labour party for rich investors or hard-working leaseholders? 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