Ground rent scandal

Leasehold house owners thank Brokenshire after Persimmon sells freehold to leasehold house for less than £3,750

Anonymous freeholders are the reliable long-term custodians of blocks of flats, Select Committee is told

Communities Select Committee lifts the lid on the residential freehold racket

Taylor Wimpey recommended conveyancing solicitors go bust after one is jailed for stealing £280,000

Did government cop-out on retirement ground rents stuff new thinking in the sector?

Long Harbour lobby MP Kate Osamor bars leasehold activist from Twitter feed

Ground rents to be allowed in retirement housing, says government

Has Brokenshire trashed Sajid Javid’s reforms of leasehold?

Retirement sector thought it would prompt leasehold reform, but leasehold houses and double ground rents were even worse …

MPs turn out in force to welcome leaseholder demonstrators at Westminster

APPG July 11: Robust debate over retirement ground rents and event fees

APPG July 11: Taylor Wimpey deserves no praise for its cheating RPI ground rent relief scheme, says leasehold house customer

Ground rents are so valid … to pay out £300m bonuses to Persimmon cronies

Retirement housebuilders and speculators plead to be allowed ground rents in the Evening Standard

McCarthy and Stone and Churchill: are you blackmailing government over the ground rent ban and is your business model broken? Asks BBC R4 MoneyBox

Taylor Wimpey’s snake oil ground rent review scheme makes toxic leases even worse: in my case, £25m worse!

Leaseholders urge Clive Betts MP to quiz housebuilders over ground rent review schemes

98% of rip-off lease sales broke consumer protection rules, says Conveyancing Association

Gleeson won’t sell leasehold houses, but freehold ones come with ‘fleasehold’ covenants, says Justin Madders

McCarthy and Stone: Ground rents are not the future of retirement housing

Housebuilders ground rent scandal compo schemes ‘must go further and faster’, says housing minister

£19,200 a year ground rents at Crawford Building are not our problem, says Redrow

Guardian reports misery of leasehold home owners trapped by John Lewis Partnership Pension Trust – and the Mail, Sun, Mirror and Lad Bible (any we have missed?)

Leasehold houses to be banned and future ground rents set to zero, announces Sajid Javid

Telegraph reports case of Taylor Wimpey pensioner who has paid £38,000 for his freehold … and now won’t help him

John Lewis Partnership Pensions Trust tells leaseholder it will ‘disinvest’ in doubling ground rents

E&J Capital Partners ‘compelled’ to sell freehold to Taylor Wimpey house to pensioner for £38,000 (plus £4,000 costs)

Pensioner paid £38,000 for Taylor Wimpey freehold to ground rent speculators E&J Capital Partners

Has Taylor Wimpey done just enough to avoid being successfully sued?

Taylor Wimpey and Long Harbour deal to defuse toxic lease scandal … after 11 months!

MailOnline forensically examines Taylor Wimpey couple stuck in leasehold house with £590pa to Adriatic Land

Ground Rents Income Fund plc offers help to leaseholders … in order to keep this grisly show on the road

LKP guidance for responding to the government consultation on tackling unfair practices in the leasehold market