Ground rent scandal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 …

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

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

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

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

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

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

NLC conveyancing report on BBC R4 You and Yours today

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

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

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

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

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

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

Now it is Shanly Homes dumping its customers into unsellable homes

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

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

Better late than never for the CMA?

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

Beware ground rent addicts bearing gifts with their good conduct pledge

UK Finance mortgage lenders doled out cash on dodgy leases, but don’t know how many now can’t sell