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HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Third sitting)Bob, is there anything you want to say on that? Bob Smytherman: I would just completely echo that. For us as an organisation, in 2002 we were really hoping that the Government…18 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (First sitting)Q Can I just go back to your point, Jo? You said that it went from £5,000 to £50,000. Have they given you any rationale for the £50,000? Where did that number come from? Jo…16 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Second sitting)No, that is helpful. Thank you very much.16 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (First sitting)Q Did you know that they were selling it on? Did they tell you that they were selling it on? Did they give you any notice of it? Jo Derbyshire: No. Katie Kendrick: No, because…16 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Second sitting)Q The problem we will find, if we are not careful, in putting through legislation that allows the right to manage is that there is still no route to get somebody to make things…16 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Second sitting)Q With regard to the redress element, again, it is a small, individual leaseholder taking a ginormous freeholder, managing agent, or whatever, to court. There is an imbalance…16 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Second sitting)Q That is the bit that I am glad you got to, because that seems to be the bit that gets forgotten with leasehold properties. What are the ongoing service charges—what are you…16 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (First sitting)Q Katie, can I just go back to your earlier point about how lots of sales are falling through? Can you just explain why that is? What is causing sales to fall through on leasehold…16 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (First sitting)Q I have residents in 40 or 50 homes on an estate in Chapelford in Warrington where not one of them was told about them being leasehold until they paid the money. Cath Williams:…16 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Second sitting)Q I was really struck by your comments around the natural education process of buying and selling houses. You are quite right; most of us probably do it once or twice in our…16 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Second sitting)That is fine. Thank you.16 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Second sitting)Q Can you tell us what is not happening? Halima Ali: There is no management happening at all.16 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Second sitting)Q I was going to ask you about that. Is the Bill sufficiently robust in that area at the moment? Beth Rudolf: No. It is wonderful that you are opening up the jurisdiction of the…16 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Second sitting)Q What should be happening? Halima Ali: It should be managed.16 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Second sitting)Q Is that something you think we should be mandating for people buying a leasehold? Should that be in the Bill? Beth Rudolf: For any house, yes, absolutely. It needs to whack up…16 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Second sitting)Q I will be brief. Cathy and Halima, can I pick up on your point about estate management? Do you have any examples of members of your forum who are paying fees on a regular basis,…16 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Second sitting)Q This morning, we heard from the founders of the National Leasehold Campaign about some of the poor practices that their members had told them about. Do you think that provisions…16 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (First sitting)Q So you paid your deposit. Cath Williams: Yes, I paid the deposit, and I had sold my other property. We were very late on in the process, so I believe that I was mis-sold and…16 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Second sitting)I am conscious of the time. Others may want to— Beth Rudolf: I know, but I was going to say that the commonholders did not complain about being commonholders. Some of them had…16 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Second sitting)Q The challenge that we are going to face is that we are going to build hundreds of thousands of homes over the next however long, and how those estates are looked after and the…16 Jan 2024