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melyorktt.bsky.social
Assistant Property Editor at The Times & Sunday Times. Proud #housingnerd and dachshund obsessive. Message me or email me at [email protected]
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As the government proposes banning the sale of new leasehold flats, a class action lawsuit suggests owners may be owed millions in compensation. Very well done by my @thetimes.com colleague James Hurley on the business desk www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

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Here's everything we know following yesterday's commonhold white paper. It'll be great to see a reinvigorated legal framework for commonhold but there is still a question mark over where this leaves existing leaseholders www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

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Exc: Houses valued at more than £1m in the Home Counties are taking longer to sell and when they do it is for £150,000 less than the asking price — a far cry from pandemic highs, according to new @investecgroup.bsky.social report www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Leaseholders - new data shows it take the average flat owner 20 years to see the same increase in property value as a house owner would see in 10 years. Has anyone else seen little value growth when they sell a leasehold flat - and would be happy to talk about it?

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Ever heard of the Headington Shark, a 25 ft fibreglass sculpture that sticks out of the roof a house in Oxford? Oxford City Council has banned its owner, Magnus, from letting it out on Airbnb. I spoke to him about planning battles and artistic expression www.thetimes.com/article/c0b8...

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Generation rent… From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

submitted 76 days ago • 3 comments

I investigated delays at the Land Registry. Nearly half of 'complex' applications such as lease extensions are taking 18 months to register, and new build owners are waiting years to be registered as the legal owner of their property www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

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Took my dog for a walk and he stopped and made this face 😟. I said “oh, don’t be silly, come - it’s a hairless cat on a lead in dungarees”

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From @manumidolo.bsky.social: The Building Safety Regulator is often taking more than twice the time to make safety check decisions. In June out of 62 applications for checks; only four of them were completed within the legally mandated 12 week period www.thetimes.com/article/25e2...

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

Could building on the green belt solve our housing crisis? @centreforcities.bsky.social report they've been working on all year that shows where we could build 5m within commutable distance of 15 cities and 2/3rds of it lies within the green belt www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

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Now I couldn't say that this is where the new towns *will* be built, but thanks very much to @melyorktt.bsky.social for a great write up of the @centreforcities.bsky.social approach: build on existing urban economies and around public transport nodes www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

In a new regular series of articles called House Histories I started a couple of weeks ago, we ask readers to volunteer their homes and we delve into the history of them to see what we can find. Great comment from a former owner below this week's! www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

Hello, everyone! I write about housing for the Times & Sunday Times. Below 👇 are a few examples of my work but if you want to talk about anything housing-related, my DMs are open and my email is in my bio 🧵 www.thetimes.com/life-style/p... Firstly I write about all things leasehold

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Ooh! Exciting! Please follow my colleagues 👇

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