Rejected petition: Ground Rent Abolition for all leasehold apartments.
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Abolish ground rent completely for all leasehold apartments.
Freeholders are changing nearly £500 ground rent on apartments built in 2016.
Such flats are not sellable.
STOP these extortion by landlords.
Abolish ground rent completely for all leasehold apartments.
Freeholders are changing nearly £500 ground rent on apartments built in 2016.
Such high ground rent are not acceptable by mortgage lenders as there is a forefeiture clause and Freeholder are not willing to do deed of variation without paying them 10s of thousands.
Such flats are not sellable and a trap.
STOP these extortion by landlords.
Why was this petition rejected?
There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for similar action:
Ban ground rent on all leasehold properties.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/701602We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.