{"id":61784,"date":"2017-07-25T22:05:21","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T15:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/leasehold-houses-and-the-ground-rent-scandal-all-you-need-to-know\/"},"modified":"2017-07-25T22:05:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T15:05:51","slug":"leasehold-houses-and-the-ground-rent-scandal-all-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/leasehold-houses-and-the-ground-rent-scandal-all-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Leasehold houses and the ground rent scandal: all you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nCampaigners 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. Now the government is proposing a complete ban on new houses sold as leasehold, and reducing ground rents to zero. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Campaigners say 100,000 homebuyers in England are trapped in developer contracts with spiralling costs \u2013...<\/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-61784","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-g4w","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":63022,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/breakthrough-in-leasehold-scandal-as-countryside-buys-back-freeholds\/","url_meta":{"origin":61784,"position":0},"title":"Breakthrough in leasehold scandal as Countryside buys back freeholds","date":"August 7, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Property developer to take freeholds back from E&J Estates and release homeowners from clauses that double ground rent every 10 yearsHopes of a breakthrough for householders trapped in the leasehold scandal are rising after a major developer agreed to buy back some freeholds and axe controversial ground rent clauses.Countryside\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":61796,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/victims-of-ground-rent-scandal-demand-action-on-existing-abuses\/","url_meta":{"origin":61784,"position":1},"title":"Victims of ground rent scandal demand action on existing abuses","date":"July 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r As government plans to ban leaseholds on new-build houses, there are claims up to 100,000 people own \u2018unsellable\u2019 propertiesVictims of the ground rents scandal are demanding ministers go further in tackling unfair abuses of the leasehold system, amid claims that as many as 100,000 existing homeowners remain trapped in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":54631,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/taylor-wimpey-compensation-offer-is-pr-con-claim-victims-of-leasehold-scandal\/","url_meta":{"origin":61784,"position":2},"title":"Taylor Wimpey compensation offer is PR con, claim victims of leasehold scandal","date":"May 13, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Some homeowners believe they will still be left in the clutches of ground rent companies and have to pay excessive chargesTaylor Wimpey last month offered \u00a3130m to buyers trapped in new-build homes with spiralling ground rent contracts. 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