{"id":61688,"date":"2017-07-25T06:01:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T23:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/leasehold-ban-proposed-for-sale-of-new-houses\/"},"modified":"2017-07-25T06:13:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T23:13:15","slug":"leasehold-ban-proposed-for-sale-of-new-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/leasehold-ban-proposed-for-sale-of-new-houses\/","title":{"rendered":"Leasehold ban proposed for sale of new houses"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nDrive to check fast-rising ground rents and high fees charged by freeholders
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\nSource : ft.com
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Drive to check fast-rising ground rents and high fees charged by freeholders Source :...<\/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-61688","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-g2Y","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":75036,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/government-announces-ban-on-new-leasehold-houses-in-crackdown-on-feudal-practices\/","url_meta":{"origin":61688,"position":0},"title":"Government announces ban on new leasehold houses in crackdown on 'feudal' practices","date":"December 21, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r \r \r Source : telegraph.co.uk\r Read more...Government announces ban on new leasehold houses in crackdown on 'feudal' practices","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":67094,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/new-figures-reveal-scale-of-controversial-leasehold-homes\/","url_meta":{"origin":61688,"position":1},"title":"New figures reveal scale of controversial leasehold homes","date":"September 21, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r ONS estimates that 1.4m houses and 2.9m flats have been sold with such contracts as government considers ban on new sales by developersThe number of leasehold houses in England is significantly higher than previously estimated, according to new government figures released before an expected ban on future sales by\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":61784,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/leasehold-houses-and-the-ground-rent-scandal-all-you-need-to-know\/","url_meta":{"origin":61688,"position":2},"title":"Leasehold houses and the ground rent scandal: all you need to know","date":"July 25, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Campaigners say 100,000 homebuyers in England are trapped in developer contracts with spiralling costs \u2013 how did this happen?Britain has had leasehold homes for hundreds of years, but only in the past few months has the ground rent scandal exploded. 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