Leasehold reform: 'forfeiture remains the most mafia-like element of leasehold law'
Spurious service charges, ‘urgent works’ that never go ahead, months of unanswered calls and emails: dodgy freeholder tactics are nothing new to most leaseholders. Yet a viral case this week has again highlighted that, for the worst in that group, there is no such thing as stooping too low.
One Londoner posted on X (formerly Twitter) that her freeholders had sent notice of beginning proceedings to take her flat away.
Her crime? Not paying her service charge, due to the fact she
