Search Results for: Grenfell
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Guest post: Critics of leasehold miss the mark
Leaseholds have been painted as the villain of the cladding and ground rent scandals, but it is government inaction over many years which is the root cause.
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Regional Reports
Birmingham, Wakefield and North Wales
Each month we visit three agents across the country to discover what is happening in their local market. This month we meet members of The Guild of Property Professionals in Birmingham, Wakefield and North Wales.
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EXCLUSIVE: Phil Spencer urges agents to get behind #endourcladdingscandal campaign
The TV presenter first aired his criticism of the Government's handling of the scandal last month, but is now backing wider efforts to help trapped leaseholders.
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TV star calls on government to fix the growing leaseholder cladding scandal
Phil Spencer says hundreds of thousands of apartment owners face a bleak future including not being able to sell or remortgage their homes.
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Berkshire estate agency cartel bosses disqualified as directors
Stephen Jones and Neil Mackenzie headed up two of the four estate agency firms involved in the cartel, three of which were fined £600,000 earlier this year.
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Guest Blogs
Ministers have underestimated scale of cladding problem, say managing agents
The industry needs to persuade the government to speed up the cladding remediation process, make it more effective and make funding easier to access to helped trapped leaseholders.
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Former housing minister confirms he’s now tested negative for Coronavirus
Industry wishes the front-bench MP and Secretary of State all the best for a speedy recovery after he appeared in Parliament yesterday looking extremely unwell.
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Government pays £1 billion to release apartment leaseholders from cladding nightmare
Some 600,000 leaseholders within towers fitted with unsafe cladding will soon be able to sell their homes now that their freeholders can apply for government funding to complete the work.
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Products & Services
Professional indemnity insurance – risks and premiums on the up
As agents struggle to conduct their businesses in the crisis, more PI claims – and hikes in premiums – seem inevitable.
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500,000 apartment block owners will be able sell their homes… soon
Ministers have revealed an industry initiative to help leaseholders and mortgage lenders access information on building safety and help thousands of people stuck in homes they have been unable to sell since Grenfell.
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