The battle for buying your freehold at a fair price
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
It's been described as a "David and Goliath" contest. Hundreds of leasehold home owners have joined together - for the first time - to begin a legal fight to take control of the freehold on their properties. They want investment companies, which bought the freeholds, to sell them for a fair price.
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Presenter: Paul Lewis Reporter: Dan Whitworth Producer: Alex Lewis Editor: Emma Rippon
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| 0:00.0 | In Northern Ireland, from the late 70s to the early 90s, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers. |
| 0:08.0 | But the man who often found, tortured and sometimes killed these people on behalf of the IRA |
| 0:12.0 | was himself an informer, a secret British army agent with the codename Stakeknife. |
| 0:18.0 | Who gets to play God? And why me? Why my family? |
| 0:21.3 | When lies are still being told to this day, who do you believe? |
| 0:25.1 | I wouldn't even know where to start, and I'm with the IRA. |
| 0:28.5 | Steakknife. |
| 0:29.7 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:33.5 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:37.6 | Hello, the leaseholder homeowners battling to buy their freehold at a fair price |
| 0:42.1 | and the prepaid money account card aimed at prison levers. |
| 0:46.4 | Is it too expensive? |
| 0:47.4 | Is it even needed? |
| 0:48.8 | But first, the new Conservative government has a majority of 80. |
| 0:52.2 | So it seems a safe assumption that the UK will leave the European Union at the end of January. |
| 0:58.2 | So what will happen to the consumer rights and freedoms that go with being in the EU? |
| 1:03.2 | With me as Kate Sumter, a specialist in financial services legislation, a partner at Alan Overy. |
| 1:08.6 | Kate Sumter, let's assume everything goes to plan, |
| 1:14.5 | and at 11pm on January the 31st, UK leaves the EU. |
| 1:18.9 | What happens to all those EU laws that apply here now? |
| 1:21.9 | So in the very short term, Paul, absolutely nothing. |
| 1:25.0 | One of the things that the bill, which we're expecting to go through Parliament in the next few weeks, provides for is an implementation period that will last until the end of December 2020. During the course of that |
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