Ground rent scandal

BBC R4 Today programme hears of ‘venal, greedy housebuilders’ playing the angles of leasehold

The Sun demands end to ground-rent rip-offs

Conveyancing Association’s Beth Rudolf attacks the HomeOwners Alliance for ‘scaremongering’ over leasehold

Ground rent scandal risks becoming full-blown crisis as loans are refused on blighted homes

Leasehold houses to be outlawed, says the Daily Mail

‘Cameron’s brother-in-law Will Astor and the toxic leasehold scandal’, Daily Mail

Ask Louie Burns: The leasehold houses scandal and what you can do about it

Sajid Javid pledges Help To Buy clampdown on ‘feudal’ leasehold terms

Leasehold houses expose ‘gulf between the letter and the spirit of the law’, say ministers

Leaked Taylor Wimpey document showing doubling ground sales TODAY is “an oversight”

Bellway fears backlash over leasehold houses may eat into profits

Bottomley tells BBC R4: Clear out sector stooges from LEASE. Stop barring LKP trustees. Bring justice quickly to leasehold house owners.

Leaseholders demand end to Redrow selling leasehold houses

Taylor Wimpey ‘stretches credulity’ by refusing to list properties sold with doubling ground rents

Does Steve Morgan deserve a demo on Redrow’s doorstep?

Leaseholders to stage ground rent demo at Redrow’s Ledsham Garden Village

Ground rent strike ‘a very real possibility,’ reports Daily Telegraph

Some of our freehold clients are offshore, admits Will Astor’s HomeGround

Here we go … Bellway porkies to talk up leasehold

ITV News covers the leasehold house scandal, and homeowners stage mass demo on March 18

Dear Pete Redfern (again) … Opaque leases, dubious ‘independent’ legal advice, no contact from Taylor Wimpey during its ‘review’, normal industry practice to stuff clients with leasehold houses (especially in North West)

‘I don’t see why houses are sold leasehold,’ says prime minister. Is this the final nail?

Taylor Wimpey rejects responsibility to resale buyers facing doubling ground rents

Linden Homes calls in libel lawyers to silence customer who spoke to BBC

No van man here: Persimmon bans first-time buyer from parking his van at his leasehold house

STOP Selling new build leasehold houses demands Leader of the House of Commons

Justin Madders MP tells Chester Chronicle leasehold is ‘the PPI of housing sector’

Homebuyer calls for Persimmon boycott, and local MP Andrew Selous agrees with him!

‘No other law so blatantly allows the wealthiest to rip off those less so,’ says the Sunday Times of leasehold

Dear Gavin Barwell … our Taylor Wimpey leasehold house means my pension will be eroded

Dear Ted Ayres … your company Bellway sold our family’s future

Dear Jeffrey Fairburn … Can I buy the freehold to a Persimmon house before you sell it to anonymous investors, please?

Dear Pete Redfern … Taylor Wimpey cheated us: what are you doing about it?