Ground rent scandal

Taylor Wimpey CEO says doubling ground rent scandal under ‘review’. But Bottomley asks: ‘Have innocent homebuyers been shafted?’

Telegraph reports ‘marketing cobblers’ of 999-year ‘virtual freeholds’ with lethal ground rents

Bottomley tells Taylor Wimpey to explain ‘sharp practice’ ground rents – and asks for names of directors who approved them

Pete Redfern: Stop pontificating about the housing crisis and sort out the ground rent scandal of Taylor Wimpey’s own making

Philip Rainey QC: Reform of the law is a duty (and for landlord and tenant law it is overdue)

ARMA conference ‘worried’ that developers are exploiting new home owners

First-time buyers facing £8,000 ground rents stuffed by plc housebuilders

Taylor Wimpey woes reported in Estates Gazette

Surge in new-build leasehold houses with £1.9 billion sold last year

Leasehold houses scandal widens as developers face MPs

Disgraceful leasehold houses reported in Guardian today

Would you choose a good night out, or 500 freehold acres of Mayfair and Belgravia?