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Ground rent scandal

Do NOT buy a new property with ground rents

Category: Ground rent scandal, HomeSlider, Latest News, NewsTag: Strawberry Star

Cracks in the leasehold racket as Barratt London drops ground rents

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Barratt, Ground rents

Long Harbour Board

Oh, dear! Long Harbour private equity speculators buy freehold where ground rent FALLS from £250 to £143

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, William Waldorf Astor

Pensioners in former pit village fight ground rents rising from £10 a year to £1,100pa (after a demand for £2,450pa was rejected)

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Alan Copley Pennington, Alan Shaun Pennington, Alexander Stafford MP, Coppen (Estates) Limited, David Alan Senior, Dennis Plant, Ground rents, Heather Plant, Leasehold houses, National Coal Board, Robert Jenrick, Shirley Pennington, Thurcroft

Ground Rents Income Fund plc

Telegraph says buy Ground Rents Income Fund plc, which has fallen 31.6% and lost court action over Beetham Tower

Category: Ground rent scandal, John Christodoulou, Latest News, NewsTag: Beetham Tower, Braemar Estates, Ground rents, Ground Rents Income Fund plc, John Christodoulou, Rendall and Rittner, The Daily Telegraph

Hugh Mcgreever RMG

RMG’s unexplained blunder increased pensioners’ ground rents by 59%, saying it was ‘in line with RPI’

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Benjamin Bleier, David Cowans, Ground rents, Holdmanor Limited, Hugh Mcgeever, Norman Bleier, Places for People, RMG

Consumers' Association self-puffing

Consumers’ Association boasts sorting ground rent scandal and prompting CMA mis-selling investigation

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Sir Ed DaveyTag: CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, Consumers' Association, Sir Ed Davey, Which?

Clive Betts MPs

Government told to curb excessive ground rents and ‘disassociate’ from freeholders’ ‘Pledge to Leaseholders’ by Communities Select Committee

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Clive Betts MP, CMA, Communities Select Committee

Clive Betts MP leasehold mis-selling

CMA’s devastating report on leasehold mis-selling echoes the Communities Select Committee, says Clive Betts MP

Category: Cladding scandal, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Parliament, PressTag: Clive Betts MP, Ground rents

MoneyBox leasehold

We are going to court if necessary to get ripped off leaseholders their money back, CMA tells BBCR4 MoneyBox

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: BBC R4 MoneyBox, Cath Williams, CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, George Lusty, Paul Lewis, Sebastian O’Kelly

LKP vindicated by devastating CMA report into mis-selling of leasehold homes

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, Ground rent scandal, HomeSlider, Latest News, NewsTag: Countryside Properties plc

‘Peppercorn’ ground rents on Help To Buy properties … from next year

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Ground rents, Help To Buy, Leasehold houses, Robert Jenrick

Mark Hawthorn rebuked by Long Harbour

Long Harbour rebukes Mark Hawthorn, of Landmark Investments, for ‘falling below professional standards’ over email on doubling ground rents

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Landmark Investments, Long Harbour, Mark Hawthorn, Mark Hawthornthwaite, Rebecca Long-Bailey MP

Katie Kendrick Sky News Dec 19

LKP trustees Katie Kendrick and Louie Burns tell Sky News and BBC R4 MoneyBox of ‘David and Goliath’ fight for freeholds

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, PressTag: BBC R4 MoneyBox, Enfranchisement, Katie Kendrick, Leasehold houses, Long Harbour, Louie Burns, Sky News, Sunday Times, The Sunday Times

Does Li Ka-shing own your Adriatic freehold, or Hutchison Whampoa, or billionaire Frank Sixt, or Astor? Only Long Harbour knows, and it’s not saying …

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, NewsFeaturedStory, William Waldorf AstorTag: CK Hutchison Holdings, Crosby Textor, Hutchison Whampoa, Li Ka-shing, Long Harbour, Sir Lynton Crosby, Sir Peter Bottomley, The Times, Viscount Astor, William Waldorf Astor

Astor Times Front page

Families challenge Long Harbour for freeholds to Bellway leasehold houses, The Times reports

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, PressTag: Adriatic Land, Katie Kendrick, Long Harbour, The Times, William Waldorf Astor

Rothesay Life

Would you want your former Prudential pension invested in Tchenguiz ground rents by Rothesay Life? FT reports concerns

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, PressTag: David Miles, Dean Buckner, Financial Times, M&G, Professor Kevin Dowd, Prudential, Prudential Regulation Authority, Rothesay Life

Boris Johnson Manifesto

‘Get leasehold done’? Boris Johnson’s Conservatives repeat 2017 pledges in manifesto

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: 2019 election, Boris Johnson, Conservative Party, Ground rents

Ground rent baron James Tuttiett gives £8,500 to the Tories (which is a bit stingy, considering …)

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: E&J Capital Partners, James Tuttiett

Swayne McCarthy Stone

Churchill Retirement donates £150,000 to Conservatives. To retain ground rents, by any chance?

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Churchill Retirement Living, Conservative Party

Esther McVey hints at new era of friendly cross-party consensus in Commons debate

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Communities Select Committee, Esther McVey, Ground rents, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Sir Peter Bottomley

NLC conveyancing report on BBC R4 You and Yours today

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, PressTag: BBC R4 You and Yours, Beth Rudolf, Cath Williams

Gary Streeter MP: Hand over the freeholds at Saltram Meadows, Persimmon, or else lose Help To Buy …

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, National Leasehold Campaign, News

Fairview New Homes cancels sale as buyer wanted own solicitor and mortgage broker, says Times

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, PressTag: conveyancing, Fairview New Homes, Sebastian O’Kelly, The Times

Countryside Properties plc tells leaseholders wanting their freeholds: We’ve signed the pledge (and we’ve flogged them on, anyway) …

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Countryside Properties plc

LKP meets Competition and Markets Authority over leasehold house mis-selling

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Competition and Markets Authority, George Lusty, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Justin Madders MP, Simon Jones, Sir Peter Bottomley

Scale of leasehold house scandal revealed in mass email dump to house builder bosses

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, National Leasehold Campaign, NewsTag: Barratt, Bellway Homes, Bovis Homes, Countryside Properties plc, Crest Nicholson, David Jenkinson, David Wilson Homes, Dundee Group, Ecclestone Homes, Galliford Try, Harron Homes, London and Quadrant, Miller Homes, Morris Homes, Persimmon, Redrow, Taylor Wimpey, Wain Homes

Mass email dump: leasehold home owners demand their freeholds after Persimmon caves into court action

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, PersimmonTag: David Jenkinson, David Thomas, Justin Madders MP, Mark Francois MP, Persimmon, Robert Halfon Mp, Siobhain McDonagh MP

Now it is Shanly Homes dumping its customers into unsellable homes

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, PressTag: Daily Mail, Help To Buy, Shanly Homes

Tory MP Eddie Hughes moves private member’s bill to cap existing ground rents at £250

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Ground rent, MPs' APPG on leasehold

Taylor Wimpey’s Pete Redfern tells FT ‘we got it wrong on ground rents’

Category: Commonhold, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Press, Taylor WimpeyTag: Ground rents, Help To Buy, Leasehold houses, Taylor Wimpey

Better late than never for the CMA?

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Andrea Coscelli, CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, Ground rents

Freehold for Elan Homes leasehold house doubles in price to £15,900 four months after being sold to Landmark Investments

Category: Ground rent scandal, HomeSlider, Latest News, Louie Burns, NewsTag: Dame Louise Ellman MP, Elan Homes, James Brokenshire MP, John Kendrick, Landmark Investments, Mark Hawthorn, Mark Hawthornthwaite

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