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My granny’s Audley Retirement home ‘was a money pit’ costing £48,000 in exit fees

Daily Mail ‘reveals’ Will Astor’s ‘links to leasehold rip-offs’

Sajid Javid does not like regulation. What about micro management like Help To Buy?

Ground rent groups concede leasehold house owners have a right to buy freehold

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

LKP helps cut Hyde Group £600 ground rent demand to £50

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

DCLG rejects second complaint about Roger Southam as LEASE chair. He was appointed on merit, it claims

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

Solicitor removes ‘member of LEASE’ claim after Facebook ‘vendetta’

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

Nigel Wilkins, long term campaigner for leasehold abolition, dies aged 66

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

Government considers adding leasehold abuses to consumer protection law

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

Here we go … Bellway porkies to talk up leasehold

Oxford leaseholders win first round against £60,000 major works bills

Southwark council leaseholders see major works bill slashed from £17,000 to £8,000

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

LEASE chair Roger Southam in Private Eye (again)

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

Justin Madders MP demands LEASE chair has ‘no business interests in the leasehold sector’

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

Israel Moskovitz loses epic Elim Court right to manage battle in landmark Court of Appeal decision

Time for the tribunal to dismiss trivial objections to right to manage after Elim Case