When leasehold flat owners are being treated as second-class citizens | Letters

Readers respond to an article on a campaign that is fighting to end the leasehold system in England and Wales I read your article about the National Leasehold Campaign and the problems associated with owning a leasehold property ( ‘The developers got greedy’: the women who took on the leasehold scandal – and won, 16 June ). I fully understand the financial costs of leasehold, be it ground rent, management fees or extending a leasehold. However, I would like to point out that there is another problem with owning a leasehold flat. The freehold to our blocks was purchased by developers, who

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