{"id":38667,"date":"2016-12-21T00:16:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T17:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/housebuilders-must-halt-leasehold-sale-of-new-houses-says-minister\/"},"modified":"2016-12-21T00:33:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T17:33:38","slug":"housebuilders-must-halt-leasehold-sale-of-new-houses-says-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/housebuilders-must-halt-leasehold-sale-of-new-houses-says-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Housebuilders must halt leasehold sale of new houses, says minister"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nGovernment 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 the property sector\u201d, Barwell ordered developers to halt future sales of leasehold houses or face government action next year. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Government raises possibility of compensation for those already affectedMajor housebuilders such as Taylor Wimpey and...<\/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-38667","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-a3F","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":75089,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/housebuilders-hit-as-investors-take-fright-at-governments-leasehold-ban\/","url_meta":{"origin":38667,"position":0},"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":114608,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/watchdog-to-take-housebuilders-to-court-in-leasehold-crackdown\/","url_meta":{"origin":38667,"position":1},"title":"Watchdog to take housebuilders to court in leasehold crackdown","date":"February 28, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"\r UK Competition and Markets Authority finds \u2018potential mis-selling and unfair contracts\u2019\r \r Source : ft.com\r Read more...Watchdog to take housebuilders to court in leasehold crackdown","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":38667,"position":2},"title":"Ban on leasehold sales hit housebuilders; 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