Ground rent scandal

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

JB Leitch loaded leasehold ground rent debt by 222%, Justin Madders tells Commons

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, Harry Scoffin,

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

Housebuilders sitting on 600,000 plots of land, while taxpayers pour in billions through Help To Buy

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