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Ground Rent Abolition for all leasehold apartments.

Submitted on Sunday 16th February 2025

Rejected on Thursday 27th March 2025

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Ground Rent Abolition for all leasehold apartments.

Petition Details

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.

Additional Information

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.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for similar action:

Ban ground rent on all leasehold properties.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/701602

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