Andrew Fisher Perhaps the Tories will next claim leaseholds are 'good for homeowners' and banning them for flats would be 'unfair to developers' profits'. Consumers deserve better than backbench pandering and half-measures that ignore the real problems with leasehold homes.

Angela Rayner asks why ban on new leaseholds doesn't apply to flats - when it is mostly flats that are leasehold.

They have given in to the vested interests on their backbenches, says Rayner
#PMQs

A cap on Ground Rents, even at £250 annually for 25-years, is still a ‘Win’ . Using the Bank of England’s Inflation Calculator, a £100 annual GR levy in 1990 is £254 annually by 2024.

Harry Scoffin Sadiq Khan The Labour Party Honestly what has he done for leaseholders? Leasehold scandal??
Building Safety Crisis ?? Ending Ground Rents?? Spiralling out of control service charges?? Commonhold pilot scheme??
999 year leases?? Where’s his plan? Last time promised and didn’t deliver. #leasehold

Harry Scoffin Worse still he appears to be relying heavily on SO to tick the 'affordable' housing box.

@uklabour leader ⁦Keir Starmer’s ⁩ Leasehold Attacks Ring Flat – via ⁦Guido Fawkes⁩ order-order.com/2024/04/24/lab…

LBC Like he promised to abolish leasehold within 100 days?

Thanks for clearing that up 👍

Can’t keep a grip of her Oyster card let alone get a grip on Londons ever growing Housing Emergency.

Completely out of touch with reality.

Claire Sheppard said major works bills can be devastating for tenants. The system is rigged against leaseholders.

Christine Wallace said leasehold reform is necessary but complicated

Leasehold reform. Member of public said Sadiq Khan had not carried out commonhold pilot scheme he had said he would

Marina Ahmad AM said she would look into the pilot issue.

Adam said leasehold is a feudal relic

Angela Rayner 🌹 I'm 51, it's taken this long to get enough deposit to buy! Leasehold flats- look at the service charge on this STUDIO flat in Eastbourne. It's disgraceful. All properties should get a share of freehold and buyers kept free of parasites!
#PMQs #housing #property

Tom Kelly How to stop council estate leasehold flat trap. In london Heston. Just because you signed the lease now pay what we ask ?.

Mary! You don’t know what you are talking about. Scotland and the rest of the world all use commonhold-style systems. England and Wales are international outliers for persisting with landlord-controlled leasehold tenure to organise private flat ownership.

Free Leaseholders Conservatives Rishi Sunak We live in a faux democracy- East India Company has retuned to rule the waves of Dover

Martin Keegan Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities UK House of Commons Fully support!

SHAC Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities UK House of Commons Can you not support Amendment 76A to the leasehold reform bill which would extend leaseholder protections to council tenants?

Their ban on leasehold won't apply to the majority of people.

It's like banning non-doms but exempting Tory Prime Ministers.

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Angela Rayner 🌹 to Oliver Dowden

#LeaseholdScandal

This is the debate in the House of Lords on the extension of the ban on leasehold to include flats and introducing Commomhold. Very poor response from the Government which delivers nothing. ☹️

members.parliament.uk/member/4153/co…

Harry Scoffin Free Leaseholders HM Treasury Rishi Sunak - time to hold one’s nerve in times like this, I find.