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

Will more funding for LEASE just be: Carry on minister!

‘Dump Roger Southam. Appoint Sebastian O’Kelly,’ National Leasehold Campaign tells housing minister

Court of Appeal to hear Mundy case which will save millions on lease extensions

Banker leaseholders spend £50,000 to reform the paw law

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 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?

Bellway sells Baltic Avenue freehold to Adriatic Land 6 as leaseholders mobilise

Taylor Wimpey delays ground rent scandal ‘review’ to April, and hopes, like Mr Micawber, ‘something will turn up’

Have lenders refused mortgages on doubling ground rent properties?

Leasehold rip-offs are ‘legalised extortion’ by housebuilders, says Chartered Institute of Building

Leaseholder activists rejected for positions on LEASE board

BBC R4 You and Yours exposes Taylor Wimpey buyers facing doubled ground rents to £500 before 10 years have passed

DCLG rejects complaint over LEASE chair Roger Southam, who pledged to ‘maximise ground rent opportunities’ for freeholders

Victoria Derbyshire told ‘we must end cheating speculators in leasehold housing’

Affluent London leaseholders are just as likely to be kicked around as poor ones, finds the Sunday Times

‘If I fail to offend anyone, I will do it next time,’ Bottomley tells appalled leasehold professionals at LEASE annual conference

Housing minister urges transparency over retirement exit fees

Housing minister says LEASE must be on the side of leaseholders, and promises more money

Leasehold injustices on BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire show

Gavin Barwell: ‘No excuse for leasehold houses or punitive ground rents and we will stamp them out’

The day the Leasehold Advisory Service was returned to leaseholders

LKP tells Sunday Times reader not to buy leasehold house (and there is no excuse for them)

Housebuilders ‘pimp their profits’ by selling freeholds, says Financial Times columnist

Taylor Wimpey’s Speakman Gardens now erupts in protest

Help offered to leasehold house owners facing onerous ground rents

Brighton council leaseholders win refunds for major works

Now Daily Telegraph wades into the leasehold house racket

Cramlington: The wet dream of housebuilders, where everything is sold leasehold