Priti Patel's landlord parents have overpriced three freehold properties by tens of thousands of pounds forcing leaseholders who want to buy them to take them to a tribunal, we can reveal.
A Mirror investigation has found that Sushil and Anjana Patel demanded one leasehold tenant pay more than £28,000 for the freehold the Patels had bought for around £4,000 at auction. A tribunal judge later ruled they had made a mistake and it should be £5,100 - just £31 more than the tenants had offered the Patels 12 months earlier.
We found it was not an isolated case. The Patels asked for £7,500 from a second tenant in 2020, before a tribunal ruled it should be £5,751. Mr Patel wanted £17,000 for another freehold he owned in 1993 but, after a three year legal battle, a judge said the price should be just £2,750.
