London dad

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[London dad @ghose77]

@MadameButcher No eFinancialCareers, no comment

[London dad @ghose77]

@Fund_CDM Agreed. Wrote about it yesterday..
https://t.co/Bl0Dc3XmyJ

[London dad @ghose77]

@alexandrascaggs @alexandrascaggs congrats! What about…”it’s 2028 and Arnie the Terminator has returned to hunt a rogue AI agent, former high paid SaaS execs are using Klarna to buy Taco Bell’s…”
😂

[London dad @ghose77]

@Victoria_Spratt Why do you think high end suburb houses in places like Wimbledon are holding at record levels? Thanks

[London dad @ghose77]

Great piece by @HarryScoffin
The Tories have a chance here to win back votes in London where Labour has failed on this key cost of living topic @rcolvile

[CapX @CapX]

More than half of London’s leaseholders say it has prevented them starting a family

✍️@HarryScoffin says it is time to finish Mrs Thatcher’s crusade for leasehold reform in the UK

Read more: https://t.co/ARnsHGfh6c

[London dad @ghose77]

@TheStalwart @TheStalwart he is the CEO of a retail gambling arcade…what else would he say

[Norma Cohen @NormaCohen3]

LBC are leading the way in highlighting the abuse of occupiers that current leasehold law permits. @HarryScoffin tells LBC that Labour’s failure to block Ground Rents amounts to acquiescence in the financialisation of housing.

[London dad @ghose77]

@NormaCohen3 @HarryScoffin Yeah LBC have been great

[London dad @ghose77]

One word…
LEASEHOLD!

[Harry Scoffin @HarryScoffin]

“A home seller in London now is more likely to make a loss than anywhere else in the UK for the first time in at least a decade.”

Many will be escaping a leasehold flat.

@UKLabour is fuelling blowback in the locals by stalling on leasehold abolition.
https://t.co/nl8IItwaV9

[London dad @ghose77]

@mark_wharrier @RNBlake Indeed

[Harry Scoffin @HarryScoffin]

What’s going on with @Keir_Starmer?!

In November 2024, @mtpennycook, presumably with Number 10 backing, promised a Draft Leasehold and Commonhold Reform Bill would drop in the second half of 2025.

It never happened, after a last-minute lobbying push by Big Freehold.

[London dad @ghose77]

@iaindunning Interesting point. Jane Street have a ton of AI bets on like Anthropic and CoreWeave that inflate revenues but could also have upside. I wrote about them…https://t.co/AA1m3Brj25

[London dad @ghose77]

@tomhfh I use Kensington library and it is a beautiful building. Context

[London dad @ghose77]

@db_fink lol legendary

[London dad @ghose77]

@MichaelAArouet What wealth tax? Haven’t seen one. They keep hitting the middle class!

I would also prefer to a Dubai estate agent of last 5 years vs next 5. Dubai can be cyclical. The young estate agents moving to Dubai now have missed the fun

[London dad @ghose77]

I saw that post and was a little puzzled as I thought London pays more tax than is spent on it ie it was a net contributor to the country?

Central govt sure can be blamed for lack of vision with building new industries in the north but I think we overemphasize how rich and powerful London is. It is not richer than Paris and the US has a dozen cities like London.

Shifting Parliament to another city is a good idea in my view but as for taking resources away from London we are already see money flow out to Dubai

[London dad @ghose77]

It would be good if someone with your profile and distribution to chat to my friend @HarryScoffin on leasehold.

Not only does it disproportionally impact the young and poor in cities there is a huge amount of fraud in addition to inflation.

Renters this service charge indirectly.

Freehold flats can have service charges half of what leaseholds ones do

[London dad @ghose77]

@_emrul Indeed. You are 100% right. Would flag there is two track at moment - affluent London suburbs are at record levels but inner London gutted

[London dad @ghose77]

@LizzieCernik @rainbowland1979 No service charge? So no common areas but there is freeholder? £150k I assume includes stamp duty.

I live in Earls Court and the whole of West central London has got smoked

[London dad @ghose77]

@LizzieCernik @rainbowland1979 Houses have gone down as well apart from suburbs. But the difference in decline in flat prices between freehold and leasehold without RTM is huge. I know as I own both. It’s reflective of control over service charges.