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What does the Leasehold Reform Act mean for McCarthy Stone and Churchill customers?
The Leasehold Reform Act is being hailed as the biggest British property shakeup in the last 100 years. And it is hitting some retirement community property developers harder than others The problems with leasehold Since the 1920s a form of property…
Retirement home nightmare: Who can a full time worker trust with their elderly relatives’ wellbeing?
Dutiful son issues stark warning about the ‘realities’ of trusting retirement community giant McCarthy Stone (formerly McCarthy & Stone) with an elderly relative’s physical and financial wellbeing Clive and Lilian In 2019 Clive Drysdale 63, a chartered…
Urgent calls to regulate the UK retirement community industry
Retirement community property scandals have been hitting the headlines recently. What is being done to protect consumers? The problem We are all getting older. One minute we are 20, invincible and fierce. The next we are unable to pick something up off the floor…
Retirement community consumer abuse epidemic wiping out life savings across Britain
Hard hitting BBC investigation exposes critical levels of empty ‘unsellable’ UK retirement flats Solutions for the semi-dependent elderly Our rapidly ageing UK population requires that we re-evaluate traditional approaches to caring for our elderly, and by…
Leading claims firm targets justice for Brits who lost life savings buying retirement community properties
After a decade of bringing financial redress to people mis-sold by holiday ownership companies, leading consumer claims company ECC targets retirement community injustice. European Consumer Claims (ECC) European Consumer Claims launched in 2016 to challenge…