{"id":61858,"date":"2017-07-26T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T05:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/ground-rents-aristocrats-and-shell-firms-among-those-making-millions\/"},"modified":"2017-07-26T12:02:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T05:02:07","slug":"ground-rents-aristocrats-and-shell-firms-among-those-making-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/ground-rents-aristocrats-and-shell-firms-among-those-making-millions\/","title":{"rendered":"Ground rents: aristocrats and shell firms among those making millions"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nShadowy world of freehold speculators include landowners with links to David Cameron and companies paying no taxAristocratic landowners with connections to the family of former prime minister David Cameron, mysterious Dublin-based shell companies that pay no tax, and groups based in the Channel Islands are among the freehold owners that appear to have made millions from spiralling ground rents.When Guardian Money attempted to trace the ultimate ownership of the five-bed detached home bought by Jo Darbyshire in Bolton, we uncovered the pass-the-parcel world of freehold speculation. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Shadowy world of freehold speculators include landowners with links to David Cameron and companies paying...<\/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-61858","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-g5I","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":62190,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/leasehold-tycoon-man-whose-firms-control-40000-uk-homes\/","url_meta":{"origin":61858,"position":0},"title":"Leasehold tycoon: man whose firms control 40,000 UK homes","date":"July 29, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r As controversy grows over revelations that leaseholders are being trapped by spiralling ground rents, we look at the property empire of James TuttiettHe does not appear on any rich list but he has built a property empire that rivals that of the Duke of Westminster. 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