{"id":33142,"date":"2016-11-05T14:01:40","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T07:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-ground-rent-scandal-that-is-engulfing-new-home-buyers\/"},"modified":"2016-11-05T14:08:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-05T07:08:53","slug":"the-ground-rent-scandal-that-is-engulfing-new-home-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-ground-rent-scandal-that-is-engulfing-new-home-buyers\/","title":{"rendered":"The ground rent scandal that is engulfing new home buyers"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n\u2022 Flat owner reports being trapped in property valued at zero just six years after being built\u2022 \u00a31,000-plus fees to freeholder for permission to build extension \u2022 \u00a335,000 quote to buy freehold on Bovis detached house built a year agoFollowing a special report in last week\u2019s Guardian Money, there has been a huge response from readers caught out by leases with sky-rocketing ground rents. Continue reading…
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\u2022 Flat owner reports being trapped in property valued at zero just six years after...<\/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-33142","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\/p75ss1-8Cy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33761,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-insurers-are-watching-you-online-and-is-it-time-to-switch-energy-provider\/","url_meta":{"origin":33142,"position":0},"title":"How insurers are watching you online, and is it time to switch energy provider?","date":"November 10, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Plus, the ground rent scandal engulfing new home buyers, Tesco Bank accounts hacked, and homes with spiral staircasesHello and welcome to this week\u2019s Money Talks \u2013 a roundup of the week\u2019s biggest stories and some things you may have missed. 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