The Labour Govt. does not have to betray leaseholders like this

This is a post of an email to me from Harry Scoffin of Free Leaseholders

Last time it was Ground Rent Wars. Now it’s Ground Rent Betrayal.

Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook and Chancellor Rachel Reeves are betraying leaseholders over ground rent reduction, according to a report in The i Paper on Thursday night.

Barry Gardiner, Lord (Michael) Gove and Angela Rayner are mobilising, but we need YOUR help.

Are you affected by ground rent and willing to share your story in a Free Leaseholders video or with the media?

Do you pay hundreds of pounds in ground rent every year?

Does your ground rent escalate or double?

Has ground rent affected your ability to remortgage or sell?

Are you trapped because of ground rent?

Your voice and your story will help us turn this around and end leasehold for good. Email harry@freeleaseholders.org.uk NOW.

 

I HAVE A GROUND RENT STORY
While Pennycook pushed for peppercorning in opposition, now that Labour are in power we’re unlikely to see even a £250 cap.

For working people?!

We warned in our last two videos that a betrayal of leaseholders was coming. We were criticised for saying so. But it is happening.

We have just a week to act before the Draft Leasehold and Commonhold Reform Bill is published with the ground rent betrayal inside.

If this Labour government goes through with the ground rent betrayal, freeholders and their professional acolytes will continue to gorge while we remain financial captives.

Meanwhile, commonhold will stay out of reach.

Reducing ground rents would not only put money back in the pockets of working people, it would also encourage lenders to offer mortgages on leasehold flats and reduce the inflated value of freeholds, making it cheaper for us to enfranchise.

We are up against a multibillion-pound industry on the verge of victory, even though the government recently beat them in the High Court. If you can’t share a ground rent story, please chip in a tenner to our fighting fund:

I’LL DONATE INSTEAD
LAST TWO STANDING IN THE JR APPEAL
A LinkedIn post last night from one of the government barristers involved in fighting the High Court judicial review by the freeholder lobby against key 2024 Act policies suggests that only two of the original claimants are seeking an appeal against the October decision.

No Grosvenor, no Cadogan, and no Wallace estates. What a shrunken force. It makes the government’s incoming betrayal of leaseholders even more infuriating and bizarre. They do not have to do this.

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