Daniel Timms
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174 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 26 May
Daniel Timms’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's right.
Okay.
Yeah.
And normally there might be an element of, you know, ground rent.
It might be a small sum paid to the freeholder.
Yeah.
Right.
So when they were set up, the ground rent was a significant sum of money, maybe five, six pounds a year.
Back then, a lot of money.
It's still five or six pounds a year, essentially worthless.
And so one company in Sheffield was flogging a load of them off.
And this guy, Andrew Milne, bought them at auction.
Why would you buy several hundred freeholds as Mr. Milne did?
It's a good question because we worked out if you did it just as an investment for ground rent, it would take about 30 years to get your money back.
But if you own the freehold, you have a legal position of power over someone or a relationship, perhaps.
And people don't really understand the freehold leasehold system completely.
And in those leases, there are terms and conditions.
And in his letters to some homeowners, Milne said that those have been breached.
Yes, I understand that he would write to people either offering to sell them their own freehold at a fairly high price, or he would say that there was a problem, there might have been some breach of the terms and conditions.
It was actually two letters at the same time to the same people.
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