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ONS trumpets collapse in sales of new-build leasehold houses
July 15, 2019 // by Harry Scoffin
The public backlash against selling houses as leasehold tenancies has been considerable since LKP first broke the story.
By Harry Scoffin
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has confirmed that just 4.2% of all new houses sold across England and Wales in 2018 were leasehold tenancies, down from 13.3% in 2017.
The ONS has described its decision to publish a leasehold dataset as having being influenced by the "growing public and policy interest" in leasehold issues.
It has used previously available Land Registry statistics.
The body says it intends to produce annual data on the number of transactions on leasehold and freehold property.
In 2018, there were 3,242 new houses and 41,686 existing houses sold as leasehold.
The ONS notes that the North West has remained the region with the highest percentage of new-build leasehold house sales.
It cites the government line that "the sale of new build leasehold houses in some areas of England is an accepted custom and practice… it is particularly common practice in parts of Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside."
Last year saw 21.8% of all new houses in the North West area sold as leaseholds, which is a marked decline from 58.5% the year before.
London is the locality with the second highest number of new leasehold houses being sold, at 15.8% in 2018.
The Financial Times attributes the developer move away from leasehold houses to government action, namely the Fixing Our Broken Housing Market white paper of February 2017.
UK sales of new leasehold houses dwindle following scandal
The number of new houses sold as leasehold in England and Wales has fallen sharply over the past two years, following a scandal which left many buyers in unsaleable homes. In England and Wales 4.2 per cent of all new-build sales – or 3,242 new houses – were sold as leasehold in 2018, down from 13.3 per cent in 2017.
The title fails to credit the tireless work of Leasehold Knowledge Partnership.
The National Leasehold Campaign, the LKP-backed social movement set up by three house lessees the month after the selling of new-build houses reached its peak of 17.5 per cent in January 2017, is also not mentioned.
Only 0.8 per cent of all new houses were sold as leasehold last month, according to the ONS release.
However, this market change has not been driven by legislative change.
The leasehold ban on all new-build houses, first announced by Sajid Javid in December 2017, has yet to become law.
Government also has to wait until 2021 to end taxpayer subsidy of leasehold houses on Help To Buy.
As The Times notes, the shift away from leasehold is linked to the "political pressure on unfair contracts and abuses linked to tenure arrangements", which LKP has instigated.
Leasehold home sales plunge amid political pressure for end to abuses
The number of new houses sold as leasehold has fallen sharply amid political pressure on unfair contracts and abuses linked to tenure arrangements.
In comments that will be seen as helpful to government, Nigel Henretty, head of housing analysis at the ONS, said:
"The government's announcements about potential changes to the leasehold system may have driven the decreases."
Although the ONS dataset is only concerned with houses, the body has chosen to use a contentious definition of leasehold tenancies:
"Leasehold properties are those that are owned for a fixed period, under an agreement with the landlord, usually known as the freeholder."
Government has recently been criticised by campaigners for suggesting something similar, that leasehold is "a legitimate form of home ownership… [where leaseholders] are homeowners", which contradicts the wording in its newly published How to Lease guide:
"Leasehold is a type of long-term tenancy; it is not the same as outright ownership. When you 'buy' a leasehold property, you do not become the owner of the property: you acquire the right to occupy it for the amount of time that is remaining on the lease."
The ONS intervention on leasehold suggests that government is finally convinced of the need to invest in information gathering since better data can improve policymaking.
Taxpayer subsidy via Help To Buy for leasehold houses to run until 2021, MPs told Farewell to newbuild leasehold houses? Surge in new-build leasehold houses with £1.9 billion sold last year Last year: £64.8bn leasehold properties sold. £13.7bn was new-build. Leasehold house numbers double. Developers make £300-500 million a year from ground rent sales Daily Telegraph reports the new-build leasehold houses ban
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"The Flight from Conversation" (Sherry Turkle, NYTimes, 4/21/12). Could it be true? Are we becoming increasingly shallow with each and every Tweet?
Based on my own experience as an avid digital communicator, the frequency of conversations I call meaningful have not diminished in the least. Actually, I think they have increased. By staying digitally in-touch with people who are physically removed, I believe our interactions are far richer when we do get together for having shared words in the interim.
Philosophers for centuries have complained about the alienation of modern life, that we're unconnected from, you name it – a moral authority, fulfilling labor, the land, our own nature, from each other. Now it seems social scientists are whining that we are too connected, too social, and unable to be alone.
For the majority of history Homo sapiens lived as hunter-gatherers in small bands of related individuals. Based on similar present-day groups, individuals are rarely alone and instead work collectively to insure the group's survival. They engage in bits of conversation as they go about their affairs and I doubt their exchanges are categorically much different from the incidental stuff we Tweet and Facebook about today. If their daily banter didn't prevent meaningful conversations later around the campfire, why assume our Web-based interactions thwart significant dialogue at the bar or dinner table?
Instead of alienating us from meaningful relationships I think our digital devices are reconnecting us to our evolutionary past. Social networking allows us to live more like our ancestors did - to be constantly connected in order to gossip, trade bits of information, to share stories, offer moments of comfort and encouragement. These relatively simple exchanges are part of the glue that holds a group together. We are a social species and there is deep satisfaction in simply staying in touch. Today our group of family and friends might be larger and more spread out, but the urge to stay connected is as strong as ever. I don't think our hyperactive thumbs are turning the screws on human nature just yet.


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Nigerian born British Boxer, Anthony Joshua and his son JJ, are the cover stars of the December edition of GQ Magazine.
Anthony Joshua who graced the cover of the December edition of GQ Magazine, which is the brand's 30th-anniversary dissection of masculinity, talked about not wanting his child to take up boxing as a career and what it takes to raise a family right.
The boxer who was captured sitting on a bike with his son "JJ" sat in front of him, became the first man to appear on the cover of British GQ alongside his son, three-year-old Joseph Joshua. Born in Watford in 1989, Joshua began boxing at the age of 18 at the Finchley ABC amateur boxing gym in Barnet, North London. His is however now a title holder of three of the four major world boxing championships.
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Q: How to easily remove fields from Redux form and Redux store My code uses conditional rendering to remove fields from form DOM. For redux form, the deleted field value will remain in the form store, and this is really annoying. Anyone has good ideas how to solve this issue? The following is my implementation for the conditional rendering. Because it is quite common in my project to do the conditional rendering, how can I solve the issue glablly?
import React from "react";
import { connect } from "react-redux";
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import { Grid, Form } from "semantic-ui-react";
import RenderFieldSelect from "../../formElements/Select";

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} from "./SelectOptions";
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class SummaryAttributes extends React.Component {
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    return (
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                  name="propertyType"
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                  required="Y"
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                  validate={[required()]}
                />
              </Form.Group>
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    );
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}

const mapStateToProps = state => ({
  formValues: getFormValues("propertyForm")(state)
});

export default withRouter(
  connect(
    mapStateToProps,
    null
  )(SummaryAttributes)
);

Reducer: Index.js
import { combineReducers } from 'redux';
import { reducer as formReducer } from 'redux-form';
import loadingReducer from './reducer_loading';

export default combineReducers({
  form: formReducer,
  loading: loadingReducer
});

Thanks.

A: I have found a way to solve this issue:
import { combineReducers } from "redux";
import {
  reducer as formReducer,
  actionTypes as formActionTypes
} from "redux-form";

const removeUnregisteredFormFieldValue = (state, action) => {
  if (action.type !== formActionTypes.UNREGISTER_FIELD) return state;
  const {
    values: { [action.payload.name]: unregistered, ...values }
  } = state;
  return { ...state, values };
};

export default combineReducers({
  form: formReducer.plugin({
    sampleForm: removeUnregisteredFormFieldValue,
    propertyForm: removeUnregisteredFormFieldValue
  })
});

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Corona Implosion
The Promised Land is a strange and difficult term. When moving half-way around the planet to Israel, I told myself that I was deserving of it, a life-change and midlife crisis all rolled up into one. Having converted to Judaism while living in Los Angeles, I was still trying to find my own Jewish roots after 15 years of raising my little Jewish family in Colorado. I had fled from the city when my first son was born, and became a member of Jewish Renewal in Boulder, but never really melded into the fold, I always felt. At least that is what I told myself to explain the difficulties I seemed to be having feeling normal, but really just feeling Jewish. At the time I felt that I needed to understand, more in depth, the roots of the tradition, or religion, or culture, or place of origin, or language, or … any and all of the missing pieces of who I destined myself to be; so, I searched.
I searched for many years to find a path in life that fit my own vision; a vision of the answers compiled together, addressing the question of the universe—and what it all revealed to me—and what, ultimately for me, ongoingly ... it all really meant. This search caused me to change directions many times in life. And traversed I did, from Hare Krishna to tribal surfers, from indigenous culture to the second Number One holding court on the beaches of Laguna, mimicking the Greeter, Eiler Larsen, who, when I was a child, had been an inspiration to me. I witnessed Eiler often, but only when quite young, driving by in the backseat of my parent's automobile, with my mother exclaiming, always, for us to wave back as we passed. He had long stringy hair, I remember, and an even longer beard dripping down over his stooped European frame as he waved and pointed his index finger out, as if saying, "Give me a ride, I too am on my way to where you're going…" And, echoing through time, like a promise delivered, I see today that he was not altogether unhinged. I have carried Eiler with me in this life, remembering the good ole' times from days ongoing and then passing by; all the while: with isolation currently rocking the planet and a pandemic of biblical proportions waving its hand out with greetings, not so gently. Like pointing a finger towards a future mostly known but entirely unbelieved, we, like infants cast into a pond, pass over altogether its meaning and flounder about in order to find the new norm.
Passover hit me over the head this year. I've been living the dream for 13 consecutive years, building my presence in the Land of Israel via 'anyway possible.' I started with cabinet making, as that is what I had known, but moved on eventually to the Internet and all the blessings and curses that have evolved since from that realm. Once parting with my employ for 7 years: the Christian German Zionist Kibbutz situated down the street, I began to paint. From there I spawned a gallery, an art school, a center for community, and then began to teach – woodworking, painting, drawing, and ceramics, with creative writing hugging the aisle; then came teaching English in public school. In the summers I traveled the globe from the center of the world, exploring my backyard in Israel to Europe, Malaysia, Africa, Indonesia, Madagascar, and beyond. I may have converted my nefesh back in L.A., but my neshama became Jewish here in the Promised Land. Since then I've been selling my khumetz to the folk I once had been; and this year was no different. But, Passover this year, as opposed to before, has sent cracks out and into the world. It was spent with my tiny pod, our family of two grown boys with lives of their own. We isolated together, virtually embracing, as the world covered its face with masks of disbelief. I wrote our own Haggadah, and then read it together with my pod of four humans, two dogs, and two cats prowling ... somewhere on their own. Passover, really, just hit me over the head this year.
There's a world lurking above our heads, always, in this modern age. The air is filled to the brim with signals blinking and pinging off reality as we go about our business day-in and day-out. Due to the circumstances of corona-isolation parameters, I began teaching online, and discovered that right above our heads lays a network of blessings in a time gone aslant; the world created has growth-potential beyond. We've always thought of the virtual world as just that, 'almost reality.' But, what this particular reality has ushered-in is the understanding of belief. We can travel anywhere, anytime, virtually, and it absolutely exists. Our minds, in the end, allow it to be. Reality has become the plaything of philosophy, not the other way 'round. We have become independent of our realm. Rome conquered the known world with roads, we know, but that evolution led us to planetary decay. Physically binding, our bio-eco-growth has propelled us, and has thus physically connected all reality that seemingly matters. Physically we have reached the paramount of ascent, but have not really understood it, yet. Like free-falling with gravity-understood, a primordial sea splitting, we breathe in one last time—the essence of what we've built, the age of knowing about to decline. Turning the page now, we anticipate what our minds will build next, what the new reality tells us will become. And, turning over the next falling leaf, we may discover that we knew of a grand-plan all along.
What is a promise? Well, integrity is important to understand, as well as hearing the truth of the reality spoken in the first place, but it's more than just that. My mom, insistent upon asking us to look at the Laguna Greeter greeting and pointing the way, may have known. She was ill in her mind, at least certified by the standards set in motion by the 'real world,' but also had some underpinning of awareness of a place unknown. We dwell day-in and day-out waiting for the next landing, the next place, a land only dreamt of, the next awareness of what will be, but in the end all we keep wondering is only from which way it will come. Together we wait. Together we isolate. In gatherings we settle. And, we wait. Sometimes we adjust our own thinking, and influence others in our pod, as isolation waivers and the future reveals its possibilities. Sometimes we just inhabit within the influence of others. And, we wait. For what, we cannot tell. For, if we do tell, we ignite growth and decay all together. If we engage we risk chaos, uncertainty, and cracking the shell. There is, however, a quiet place that exists in us all, in our minds, deep at the back, that can guide us and help. In each of our bio-ships, our suits, there exists a node deep at the core, a place we remember from before. Like a world revolving above, a sword unseen, unbelieved, the promise from before sprouts up in our own backyards. Like a fountain of inner peace from our isolated souls, we reach out to connect to others, all others; we can reach out with our ingenuity and intuition, we can reach out and greet one-another as we pass over, and only then can we truly settle — and only then can we, in truth, dwell.
Photographs taken in Ramat Hanadiv Nature Reserve near Zikhron Yaakov.
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