Owning your own home

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ReekBlefs in reply to @jaitch

Only on new builds, and only on houses too, if the headline is accurate.

Which is a double pain in the dick for those of us who've bought old council flats.

Still, as you say, it's a start.

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Howard in reply to @ReekBlefs

Which is a double pain in the dick for those of us who've bought old council flats.

Not known for having punitive, escalating ground rent charges designed to exploit hapless buyers and their asleep-on-the-job solicitors.

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ReekBlefs in reply to @Howard

Only if the council still own the freehold. Our freehold was auctioned off in 2010 and bought by the infamous Triplerose, who do exactly this, and seem depressingly successful at it too.

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