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Originally Posted by nomadking
Are you sure that it's not the Met that own the freehold. It seems to be the Met that is selling it. They leased it to Crown Housing Association, and that lease has expired.
The decision appears to have been taken in 2006, which is before any financial problems were meant to have surfaced.
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My bad ... I got the freeholder and the leaseholder the wrong way round.
It actually makes no difference to the point I was making - the tenants have been aware for SEVEN YEARS that their landlord did not have an unending lease on the properties and that at some point they were likely to be moved on.
It is the freeholder's right not to renew the lease and then to sell the property on. They have given fair notice and now they are carrying through the sale. Its all very well for the tenants to be complaining how many years they have lived there but if they want the best possible chance of living an entire lifetime in "their" house the only way to achieve that is to buy one for themselves.