{"id":62190,"date":"2017-07-29T14:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T07:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/leasehold-tycoon-man-whose-firms-control-40000-uk-homes\/"},"modified":"2017-07-29T14:14:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T07:14:34","slug":"leasehold-tycoon-man-whose-firms-control-40000-uk-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/leasehold-tycoon-man-whose-firms-control-40000-uk-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Leasehold tycoon: man whose firms control 40,000 UK homes"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAs 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. Companies controlled by James Tuttiett, aged 53, have quietly snapped up the freeholds of tens of thousands of houses and flats in almost every city in Britain, which are now at the centre of controversy over spiralling ground rents.The scale of Tuttiett\u2019s property empire has never been previously disclosed. Documents at Companies House reveal that he is frequently the sole director of companies that own the freehold of large-scale developments in Newcastle, Birmingham, Leeds, Coventry and London. Leaseholders are obliged to pay ground rents to his company, E&J Estates, that in some cases will soar to \u00a310,000 a year per home. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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As controversy grows over revelations that leaseholders are being trapped by spiralling ground rents, we...<\/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-62190","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-gb4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":113509,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/leasehold-reform-plans-branded-nothing-more-than-tinkering\/","url_meta":{"origin":62190,"position":0},"title":"Leasehold reform plans branded 'nothing more than tinkering'","date":"January 9, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Law Commission aims to make it cheaper for leaseholders to buy freehold or extend lease The Law Commission has set out a range of proposals which it said will make it cheaper for Britain\u2019s four million leaseholders to buy their freehold or extend their lease. 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