BetterRetireHousing

Better Retirement Housing to promote good practice, protect vulnerable and promote reform in retirement housing

[Leasehold Knowledge @LKPleasehold]

Since so many of you are his leaseholders @FreeLeasehlders

[BetterRetireHousing @RetireHousing]

Our archive of articles exposing bad practices in retirement housing goes back to Jan 2012. Much is also duplicated on LKP. https://t.co/OnBnPxq5YO

[BetterRetireHousing @RetireHousing]

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[BetterRetireHousing @RetireHousing]

Dismal story of retirement leasehold @michaelgove https://t.co/VqN5gvbyX7

[Sir Peter Bottomley @PBottomleyMP]

We applaud the work of Sonia McColl OBE, the founder of the Park Homes Owners Justice Campaign, who led the demonstration. We also thank @LKPleasehold who continue to be stalwart campaigners to bring justice to the overlooked in our leasehold and commonhold residential sector.

[Sir Peter Bottomley @PBottomleyMP]

We have had good progress in campaigning to bring justice to Park Home-owners over recent weeks. My persistent calls to address pitch fees rising every year with RPI, rather than the less onerous CPI, looks set to be solved by Sir Christopher Chope MP's Private Members Bill.

[Sir Peter Bottomley @PBottomleyMP]

The greatest concern is the 10% exit fee on sale taken by the site owners which residents claim is for no defined service whatsoever. Some years ago, we campaigned vigorously for the 1% exit fees in retirement housing to be dropped by the Office of Fair Trading. 10% is a scandal.

[Sir Peter Bottomley @PBottomleyMP]

On Monday, I joined a mass gathering of Park Home demonstrators in demanding an end to 10% sales fees. We delivered a clear message demanding reform of this massively scandal-hit sector of the retirement housing market.

[BetterRetireHousing @RetireHousing]

160k park homes are retirement housing. Worse than white collar leasehold bullying from lawyers, you might just get your mobile home burned out or stolen. Protests yesterday. Thanks @PBottomleyMP and @justinmadders https://t.co/hcW8mHaW9E

[BetterRetireHousing @RetireHousing]

Rachel chairs APPG for Ageing and Older People, so let's hope retirement leaseholders come along, too.

[YorkMix @theyorkmix]

Residents invited to talk to MP about the ‘Leasehold trap’ @RachaelMaskell #York #YorkNews https://t.co/yNMrgMx72c

[BetterRetireHousing @RetireHousing]

Sad to hear of the death of Baroness Sally Greengross at ARCO conference @ARCOtweets

[BetterRetireHousing @RetireHousing]

.@McCarthyStone ground rents of £400-500pa and £500-600pa within M25 justified to pay for communal areas and construction costs and keep flats 'competitively priced'. Right.

[BetterRetireHousing @RetireHousing]

Goldman Sachs enters retirement housing market via Riverstone by buying 2.5 acre site on billionaire's road Bishop's Avenue @PBottomleyMP @justinmadders https://t.co/ax7YTynzmQ

[Leasehold Knowledge @LKPleasehold]

Is this really the robust inquiry from @TheFCA on leasehold insurance fiddling that you ordered @michaelgove ? It omits the basic question of payouts by insurers to freeholders @sarahjolney1 @EdwardJDavey @PBottomleyMP @team_greenhalgh https://t.co/in5xQu72WU

[Leasehold Knowledge @LKPleasehold]

Who can be surprised retirement housing is such a failure in UK? This is not the first rip-off inflicted on pensioners @michaelgove @team_greenhalgh

[BetterRetireHousing @RetireHousing]

Thank you @KellyTolhurst Excellent work. @michaelgove

[Leasehold Knowledge @LKPleasehold]

Not waiting for Gove: Kelly Tolhurst MP urges freeholder Israel Moskovitz to halt court action against leaseholders over £2m cladding and building safety costs @michaelgove @team_greenhalgh @EOCS_Official https://t.co/RC5iNkXp98

[sebastian o'kelly @sebastianokelly]

@mk270 @nearlylegal @NLC_2019 @PhilSpencerTV @LKPleasehold I have given you examples where we intervened when RMCs were nobbled, and they were resolved. Here's another across Taylor Wimpey London sites https://t.co/qLjACxMuKp

[Leasehold Knowledge @LKPleasehold]

An awful lot of it in freeholds of flats, with the usual hiding of beneficial ownership offshore behind nominee directors. And these people hold unaccountable power over the homes of families (some caught up in the cladding disaster).

[martinboyd @martinboydlkp]

@HeatTrustUK @KwasiKwarteng @ofgem @beisgovuk @CitizensAdvice @theADEuk @TheUKDEA . @PBottomleyMP wrote to @ofgem about this issue the other day. It is ridiculous that even pensioners living in retirement homes are not protected by the cap for heating and lighting in communal areas and sometimes not even for their flat @LKPleasehold @ageukcampaigns @NLC_2019

[BetterRetireHousing @RetireHousing]

3/ Your friends @McCarthyStone and Churchill @DesmondSwayne and @peter_aldous would do better trying to prevent their flats plummeting in value rather than gaming ground rents at the 11th hour https://t.co/274clgSKLp