Ground rent scandal

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

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?