Tag Result: fire safety
Leaseholders faced 50 per cent service charge hike over past five years – Hamptons
The average service charges for flats in England and Wales have increased by 51.7 per cent...
Fire safety taxes imposed on developers will ‘curb UK homebuilding’, warns Bloomberg Intelligence
Taxes charged to the UK’s largest housebuilders to fix building safety issues are “dis...
Brokers must lower remuneration fees on buildings insurance, Gove tells FCA
Housing secretary Michael Gove has asked the regulator to urge brokers to reduce the remun...
Developers to pay £5bn for building safety repairs
Major developers have agreed to commit £2bn to fix their own buildings and a further £3b...
Lenders, cladding and the EWS1 form – Pitch 4 Finance
The issue of cladding on buildings has been in the news recently with Michael Gove announc...
Challenges with fire risk and mortgages on flats to rumble on for years
Brokers with clients looking to purchase, remortgage or sell flats in multi-unit blocks ar...
Rogue landlord fined £48k for ‘uninhabitable’ HMO property
A landlord has been fined £48,000 for failing to comply with house of multiple occupancy ...
Scottish government to offer homeowners with cladding free safety assessments
Homeowners in Scotland living in flats with external cladding will be offered free safety ...
Cladding-hit leaseholders consider bankruptcy as govt blocks funding and Grenfell safety rules
A plan to protect leaseholders from extortionate costs of fixing fire safety problems has ...
Freeholders ‘shockingly’ able to hide results of EWS1 form if building not fire safe – Rudolf
No one who has seen the horrific images of the Grenfell Tower disaster will forget just ho...