Ground rent scandal

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

Criticism over bumper pay bonuses for Persimmon and Berkeley bosses

Now Bovis says ‘Our houses are freehold’. (Gleeson’s always were …)

Commons Library’s excellent resume of leasehold problems will give MPs plenty of ideas for reform

Furious Persimmon leasehold house owners at Harrow View West demand their freeholds

E&J Capital Partners in full retreat over rapacious ground rent terms

Countryside Properties plc cracks over ground rents scandal …

The Sun attacks ‘fatcat’ housebuilders with inflated fortunes thanks to Help To Buy

Should you buy a leasehold house now? Certainly not!

Protestors gather outside ANOTHER housebuilder: Galliford Try

Ground Rents Income Fund plc says it wants to be a ‘socially responsible landlord’. How about: socially responsible ex-landlord?

Murky investors hitching a ride on the English (and Welsh) homeowner, thanks to leasehold

Buyers would have ignored ground rent clauses even if we had told them, says conveyancer Rob Hailstone

Savills and Allsops: Why ground rents from people’s home are just so ‘attractive’

Ground rent protestors stage ANOTHER demonstration against leasehold houses and charges

Daily Mail reports E&J Estates and wine-growing freeholder James Tuttiett

Scandal makes Ground Rents Income Fund plc fall £6m since March but … it has paid out 40.6% in three years

Housebuilders and stooge conveyancing solicitors face legal action, reports The Times

Guardian says: It’s time to send the feudal leasehold system crashing. Amen, to that

Guardian (again today) on freeholders’ endless fees

James Tuttiett’s tangled web of E&J freeholds scrutinised by the Guardian

First squawk from the (smaller) house builders

Patrick Collinson, of The Guardian, … on leasehold

Daily Mail on leasehold houses and doubling ground rent scandals

One article among many yesterday … from LKP

Government to ban leasehold houses and set ground rents ‘as low as’ zero

Englishman’s home isn’t a castle: it’s a revenue stream for an offshore company thanks to national housebuilders, Justin Madders tells the Commons

I had to spend £14,000 to change double ground rent to RPI at Ausden Place. But will I get compo from Taylor Wimpey?

Who are Dublin-based Boardwalk Finance DAC and Jetty Finance DAC? Why do they own freeholds to people’s homes? And why are they based abroad?

Marie Rimmer MP: how can a modest Taylor Wimpey leasehold house in St Helens pay out £185,850 to freehold investors over 60 years?

Stella Creasy MP backs leasehold reform … and Kirstie Allsopp is Tweeting to stop leasehold house sales

Buyers walk away from toxic Persimmon leasehold house