Free Leaseholders
@FreeLeasehlders • 4,553 subscribers
End leasehold for good. The 100% grassroots campaign fighting to liberate millions from property serfdom. For enfranchisement and a mass shift to commonhold.
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Wow. Leasehold is THE subscription scam. On his first day taking questions in Parliament as PM, Andy Burnham promises Barry Gardiner MP, the stalwart of leaseholders, a Commonhold and Leasehold Bill this session. It’s core to Burnham’s attack on the cost-of-living crisis.
Free Leaseholders627,699 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
LABOUR IS BACKTRACKING It’s now a top-tier political issue, with Laura Kuenssberg drawing a car-crash performance from Angela Rayner. Rayner refused to give leaseholders a cast-iron guarantee that the cost of extending a lease or buying out the freehold will come down. Yet that was Labour’s position in opposition. Labour warned that governments could be “lobbied by vested interests” into setting enfranchisement rates “that will be punitive for leaseholders”. And Matthew Pennycook MP even tabled amendments to the legislation that became the 2024 Act, seeking to make premiums “as cheap as possible for leaseholders”. Yet for the past two and a half years, the government has been stalling on the commencement of these enfranchisement reforms, already on the statute book, claiming they will only come into force once it has made “fixes” to the 2024 Act through the forthcoming Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill. But Pennycook’s opposition amendments, which sought to establish a “guiding principle” of “reducing premiums for leaseholders to their lowest possible level”, are not being carried forward. Look at the small print of the government consultation on lease extension and freehold buy-out rates that neither Rayner nor Pennycook publicised in the media. It opened on 15 July without an awareness campaign and closed on Wednesday. Once these rates are picked by Ministers, they are locked in for 10 years: what leaseholders must pay. The policy will decide whether leasehold will live or die. Leaseholders were left out in the cold again, while the consultation’s obscure legal and technical jargon favoured freeholders and their lawyer and valuer lobbyists, who will have flooded it with responses. Even our supporters who are economists, have PhDs, or have backgrounds in finance and regulation said they had never encountered a more exclusionary or gamed government consultation in their lives. But buried in that consultation is Labour’s U-turn, in paragraph 14: “… it is not intended to use prescribed rates in and of themselves, as a means of further reducing premiums for leaseholders”. The enfranchisement rates policy is now merely to: “... reduce the potential for dispute and provide certainty for leaseholders, freeholders and professionals as to what to expect from this part of the enfranchisement process.” So much, then, for Labour’s manifesto promise to “act where the Conservatives have failed and finally bring the feudal leasehold system to an end”. No wonder Rayner and Pennycook are lashing out. Note the sass when Rayner invokes the Prime Minister, as if Andy Burnham saying the right things about leasehold were enough to guarantee that this government will ensure a policy agenda repeatedly captured by vested interests finally favours leaseholders, not the property mafia. All the evidence of the past two and a half years, the excuses, foot-dragging and U-turns, points in the opposite direction. And Rayner acts as if journalists in a democracy need ask no further questions about this vitally important issue. We want to work with the Prime Minister and his Number 10 team to get these reforms right, but we’re being shut out. It doesn’t help when the PM’s housing minister is calling the government’s U-turn “misinformation”. We’ve run this campaign long enough to know that talking is not the same as doing. And leaseholders are rapidly running out of time. Ending leasehold is the test of the Burnham government, whether they want it to be or not.
Free Leaseholders49,120 görüntüleme • 6 gün önce
First-time buyers in England are skipping leasehold flats and going straight to freehold houses, according to Barclays. Why? Control over costs. No faceless freeholders ripping you off. Yet The Labour Party has caved to Big Money and U-turned on its manifesto promise to end leasehold.
Free Leaseholders843,381 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce
56% of leaseholders in London say the system has stopped them having kids. Labour promised to END leasehold. In power, they’ve U-turned — to please Big Money. They’ve dropped promised Law Commission enfranchisement and RTM reforms, keeping leaseholders as financial captives.
Free Leaseholders689,685 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce
When we shot this, Joe was just starting his legal battle. 4 years later, the tribunal found the freeholder overcharged £645,000 on insurance, but a loophole means he and his neighbours can’t get their money. Sector roundtables won’t discuss the scam. We do it in 60 secs 👇
Free Leaseholders497,536 görüntüleme • 9 ay önce
Government shouldn’t put what lawyers want above the will of the people. The Labour Party was elected on a manifesto pledge to END leasehold. Steve Reed, it’s not too late to free us. Smash the vampires. Say no to paralysing legalism. Peppercorn ground rents. Go down in history!
Free Leaseholders543,481 görüntüleme • 11 ay önce
Imagine this: the last Tory government was more progressive than a self-styled insurgent The Labour Party. Keir Starmer has a choice next week: back working people in the Draft Commonhold Bill or give thin gruel, hiding behind a captured Treasury and Lord Hermer’s weird ECHR legalism.
Free Leaseholders410,165 görüntüleme • 10 ay önce
BURNHAM TO END LEASEHOLD SCAM? STATEMENT FROM FREE LEASEHOLDERS 30/9/26 Andy Burnham is the first Prime Minister to use a party conference speech to address 10 million leaseholders and pledge law reform. It is hugely significant that he wants to use his political capital, at the height of his power, on this pro-people, pro-growth, anti-rentier agenda. Burnham promises devolution, but ‘taking back control’ cannot mean hiding behind another Whitehall regulator, one we know will be captured by industry and paid for through higher service charges on leaseholders. We, the people, need control of our homes, money and lives. That is the only way to bring service charges back down to earth, force managing agents to improve performance and save the flats market. We won’t accept crumbs from the table. Labour has the second biggest parliamentary majority in its 126-year history and was elected to power to END leasehold, not reform it. At a minimum, the upcoming Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill must include a universal Right to Manage and a restriction on development value, so our supporters can finally have freedom from interference and exploitation by parasitic freeholders and their managing agents. Burnham is right. This country has for too long been run for vested interests. Not in the public interest. With power held in too few hands. That is why our campaign exists. What comes forward in the leasehold legislation our PM has promised before Christmas will test whether his government really means what it says about taking back control and giving it to the people.
Free Leaseholders36,969 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
HAZY RAYNER REFUSES TO END LEASEHOLD SCAM BY 2029 Just this week, the government ripped up Lord Hermer’s paralysingly cautious “Rule by Lawyers” advice, urging ministers to be brave. Yet today we hear more concern for Big Money and judicial review than drowning leaseholders.
Free Leaseholders53,513 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
THROWING AWAY THE TOURNAMENT 🏆 This The Labour Party government isn’t scoring many goals. Keir Starmer is unpopular. So why haven’t they been promoting their massive High Court victory against the freeholder lobby of 2 weeks ago? A win for millions. Yet we get silence! Suss.
Free Leaseholders247,505 görüntüleme • 11 ay önce
FREE THE PEOPLE 🌹 At the recent The Labour Party conference, we made the case for ending leasehold with Barry Gardiner MP and Shula Rich. Watch now. Leasehold entrenches inequality, punishing those least able to defend themselves and keeping wealth and power with the few, not the many.
Free Leaseholders249,157 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
Labour promised to END leasehold. Now it’s a Two-Tier Keir fix, future developments only. A parliamentary committee is calling for an overhaul of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill. The government must revive the promised Law Commission enfranchisement and RTM reforms.
Free Leaseholders114,489 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce
WOW. Steve Reed has just been schooled on The Labour Party’s leaseholder betrayal by Gideon Amos OBE MP. The government has broken a manifesto and King’s Speech promise to enact the remaining Law Commission enfranchisement and Right to Manage policies in the draft Commonhold Bill. Why?
Free Leaseholders164,827 görüntüleme • 8 ay önce
Corporations are using human rights law to thwart the will of the people. Starmer and Hermer’s weird legalism is letting rich lobbyists pursue HRA/ECHR lawfare to sabotage vital housing reforms. Ministers: stop hiding behind Big Freehold’s JR trolling. End leasehold for good.
Free Leaseholders71,606 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce
Take liberation off your Christmas lists! On Thursday, Number 10 sided with grifters, blocking the draft Leasehold and Commonhold Reform Bill. The Labour Party cosying up to lobbyists and prolonging corrupt leasehold alienates flat-dwelling core voters ahead of the local elections.
Free Leaseholders116,064 görüntüleme • 10 ay önce
Student loans are a government-backed, wealth-destroying scam. Want another preying on the young? Leasehold has made the first rung of the property ladder toxic. “Buy” a flat and become a wage slave to a freeholder. Leasehold will collapse the UK property market. WATCH 👇
Free Leaseholders94,702 görüntüleme • 8 ay önce
“The ECHR is to protect the vulnerable, ideally, against an abuse of power, but what we’ve got here is the powerful abusing the vulnerable.” Michael Gove makes the pro-leaseholder case for leaving the ECHR. And more! All in our new podcast, Generation Screwed 👇
Free Leaseholders99,378 görüntüleme • 10 ay önce
CALLING Keir Starmer, CAMPAIGNER AT HEART You saved men from the gallows. You’re now pushing through the Hillsborough Law. Now’s your time to tackle another injustice: leasehold. It’s pro-growth. Smash the blockers and HM Treasury. Free the 5.3 million. You need this win!
Free Leaseholders105,933 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce