Article: EVICTED OVER pounds 15 DEBT; Now I'm being stung for pounds 1,000 to get back in; SPECIAL ON TORY ROGUES AND THEIR OUTDATED LAWS.(Features)

Article: Fury over ground rent bill.(News)
Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England);  April 7, 2004 ;     333 words ......couple are facing a pounds 230 bill - for an unpaid ground rent charge of pounds 5.61. Mark Oakes...letters about the ground rent until February...saying they owed pounds 3.74 with an administration...at a charge of pounds 225. She said people...legally liable for ...

Article: Mohammad Sarwar Millionaire claimed almost pounds 100,000
The Sunday Telegraph London;  May 31, 2009 ;     528 words ......2004. He claimed almost pounds 2,000 a month for mortgage interest on a pounds 600,000 apartment just...also claimed more than pounds 3,000 for ground rent and service charges every year, and around pounds 1,500 for council tax and...interest on his mortgage on a pounds ...

Article: Could my ground rent figure be increased? property posers.(News)
South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales);  December 4, 2008 ;     198 words ......attracts an annual ground rent of just pounds 4.50. I realise...years the total ground rent I will pay over...only amount to pounds 90. But I am concerned...several hundred pounds. Could this happen...And your annual ground rent cannot be increased...

Article: Extended lease costs pounds 3,000
The Independent - London;  August 14, 1994 ;     471 words ......flat's old ground rent. This was estimated...the annual pounds 25 ground rent - pounds 175, which...backlog of ground rent - pounds 175 - to the...prepared to pay pounds 2,000 less...the annual ground rent by which a...

Article: pounds 85k caravan.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  February 13, 2003 ;     33 words ...A two-bedroomed mobile home valued at pounds 20,000 has been sold for pounds 85,000 because of its spectacular sea views at Lyme Regis, Dorset. The new owner will have to fork out pounds 40 a week on ground rent.

Article: Ground rent package receives OK: Details of lease registry spark the most debate.
Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD);  April 7, 2007 ;     700+ words ......approval yesterday to bills to create a ground rent registry and make it more difficult...drew a handful of no votes. Reforming ground rent rose to near the top of the legislative...session after The Sun reported that ground rent owners had been awarded at least 521...

Article: Mirror Comment: Ground rent farce.(Leader)
The Mirror (London, England);  April 20, 1999 ;     78 words ......they are threatening to evict pensioners over a few pounds in ground rent. No doubt they are well within their legal rights...the going tough enough is totally uncalled for. Ground rent is a system that has outlived its time. Nobody quite...

Article: End ground rent evictions, O'Malley says.
Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD);  February 1, 2007 ;     649 words ......strongest comments yet on a central issue of ground rent reform, Gov. Martin O'Malley called...action that can befall homeowners who owe ground rent. Having the administration on board...documented how a few of the largest ground rent owners in Baltimore have used arcane...

Article: The Baltimore Sun Jay Hancock column: Ground rent law violates the principles of due process, fair play.
Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD);  December 13, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Deloris McNeil missed paying a $96-a-year ground rent bill, she lost the Fayette Street house...described in The Sun' s series this week on ground rent, pass every test for requiring legislative...not exaggerate by saying the rules for ground rent delinquency are medieval. ...

Article: Ground rent reform plan set: Measures to be unveiled today include expanded options for homeowners to buy out the leases.
Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD);  February 5, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Gov. Martin O'Malley today to unveil a ground rent reform package that would make sweeping...before Christmas over what began as a $24 ground rent debt. We heard the cry, and we responded...documented how a few of the largest ground rent owners in Maryland have used state laws...

Article: Blair's pounds 50 for servicing Aga and Brown's cash for Sky TV; POLITICS.(News)
The Birmingham Post (England);  May 24, 2008 ;     564 words ......authorities gave up a three-year pounds 100,000 legal battle to...ACA, worth a maximum of pounds 22,110 a year to MPs for...for service, insurance and ground rent on an unspecified property...submitted quarterly bills of pounds 723 for cleaning services...bills in 2005-06, as well as ...

Article: 15ft hut's a bargain at pounds 165k.(News)
The Mirror (London, England);  February 14, 2005 ;     158 words ......by 15ft beach hut is up for sale for pounds 165,000 - pounds 50,000 more than the average house. The new owner will also have to pay pounds 1,600 a year ground rent and pounds 50 a week to leave their car in the...Morris, 55, bought it 18 years ago for pounds 6,800. The ...

Article: pounds 165k for hut.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  February 14, 2005 ;     54 words ......measuring 10ft by15ft has been put up for sale - at a price of pounds 165,000. The hut at Mudeford, Dorset, has no parking and costs pounds 1600 a year in ground rent. Seller Stuart Morris bought it 18 years ago for pounds 6800. He said: 'It is a lot of money, but that is how much...

Article: Crowd condemns ground rent system: Many express anger at public meeting attended by 200.
Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD);  January 9, 2007 ;     621 words ......out last night at a public meeting on ground rent and tax sale property seizures in Baltimore...they haven't stopped the practice of ground rent, said Ron Weaver, an investor who told...rents for his properties after a new ground rent owner took over. I've been involved...