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APPG tells MPs: Ban ground rents. Introduce commonhold. Summons housebuilders to select committee. End rip-off ‘fleasehold’ permission fees on managed estates

Sector foxes warn that changing leasehold will be ‘dangerous’. But for whom?

BetterRetirementHousing.com reports retirement resale disasters. On BBCR4 MoneyBox today

McCarthy and Stone says ground rents essential, but why sell freeholds to murky Adriatic Land?

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

The Property Ombudsman fines agent for selling house as ‘virtually freehold’. (Don’t worry ARMA members: it was only £200)

More farce than Blackadder’s court martial: ARMA claims its regulator ‘retired’

ARMA regulator Sally Keeble outlines five areas where statutory regulation is needed in leasehold

ARMA regulator Sally Keeble quit ‘after being blocked’ from ruling on Warwick Estates lift shaft fatality

ARMA’s self-regulation in disarray after member sues the organisation and Sally Keeble resigns

MPs and LKP demand end to developers’ ‘stooge’ solicitors

Why are National Trust leaseholders in uproar over ‘modern ground rents’?

Now four in five homebuyers avoid new-builds … after ground rent scandals and shoddy build quality, that’s no surprise

Daily Mail attacks housebuilder bosses helping themselves to “mate’s-rates homes”

Leasehold needs to stop being a means to produce ‘ever-increasing profits’, says Conveyancing Association

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

Urban Owners finds 41% of leaseholders have not had lease terms explained by solicitors

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

Business Insider reports how easily developers get round ‘right of first refusal’

The creation of the National Leasehold Campaign

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

Countrywide to take away pensioner’s flower pots, says local newspaper

Daily Mail says blue chips are cashing in on ‘rip-off ground rents’

Countryside Properties plc deal to buy back freeholds turns spotlight on Taylor Wimpey, BBC told

ConservativeHome website calls for radical reform of leasehold

Guardian reports ‘breakthrough’ deal from Countryside … Pressure on Taylor Wimpey also to offer freeholds

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 …

Leasehold sector insiders respond to a changed world …

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

Should you buy a leasehold house now? Certainly not!