Ground rent scandal

Nationwide is the mortgage lender most nervy about ground rents, suggests survey by National Leasehold Campaign

Clive Betts: removing onerous ground rents is ‘completely compatible with the European convention on human rights’

Michael Gove: ‘squeeze every income stream that freeholders have’. Parliament debates leasehold reform Bill

Freeholds aren’t worth £27.3bn. They are worth what someone might pay for them today

Freeholders face £27.3bn fall in asset values if ground rents reduced to peppercorn, says government

Bottomley to raise with Churchill Retirement its decision to continue charging ground rents

When inflation linked ground rents are worse than ten-year doubling ones. That would be now …

More than 20,000 leaseholders benefit from CMA action over ground rent mis-selling

Barratt off the hook from CMA over mis-selling leasehold homes

CMA slaps down doubling ground rents of 15 punters who bought cheating freeholds from Countryside Properties plc

Blunder forces Pier Management and debt collector JB Leitch to scrap £3,265 late ground rent bill (and forfeiture threat that accompanied it)

Sucking a lemon, the Leasehold Advisory Service notes the ground rent Act – which it did absolutely nothing to assist

Open letter to Taylor Wimpey: If you cared about sorting out your ground rent mess, you can pay back the money your own ex-customers have wasted over this scandal

Reverse ferret: Taylor Wimpey NOW agrees to sort out re-sale buyers of its rip-off ground rent leasehold properties

CMA forces Taylor Wimpey to sort out rip-off ten-year doubling ground rents

Time to tell MPs what you think about the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill – and why it must not be nobbled

Few disagreements over banning ground rents, but last minute effort to keep them for retirement properties by Theresa Villiers and Sir Desmond Swayne

Lobbying alert: Theresa Villiers MP speaks up for ground rents, freehold owners and making sure marriage value still pays off for freehold investors

CMA forces Countryside Properties plc to strike out doubling ground rents: it was selling them as late as May 2017!

Blatant pro-landlord loophole left in the Ground Rent Bill. Is this the way leasehold ‘reforms’ will go?

Justin Madders MP asks why Redrow is selling freeholds at Ledsham Garden Village for £4,000 when they were £6,500. And what about those who paid too much?

National Leasehold Campaign email dump urges developers to settle up like Aviva and Persimmon have done with CMA

CMA forces Aviva to re-set rip-off doubling ground rents to what they were when homes were first bought …

Make sure ground rents are dead and buried by improving the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill

Analysis of where next with the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill

Freeholders and housebuilders have plucked the leasehold golden goose, and now the path is clear for commonhold

House of Lords turns into the House of Serfs to attack the iniquity of leasehold ground rents

The Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill: opportunities and challenges

If government’s is tempted to dither over banning new ground rents, then this woman’s £1m a year for a small flat should clinch it …

Bovis Homes leaseholder in Bristol cannot sell as ground rents reviewed every five years

CMA kicks housebuilders: Countryside Properties and Taylor Wimpey ‘unfair contract terms’ over rip-off ground rents; Persimmon and Barratt ‘possible mis-selling’ of homes

Do NOT buy a new property with ground rents

Cracks in the leasehold racket as Barratt London drops ground rents