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Bellway offers young mother freehold for £3,750. But Adriatic Land demands £12,750 … then agrees to half the sum

Buyer pulls out of Persimmon £219,995 leasehold house purchase

Beech Developments sets off customer mutiny in Wales with grasping ground rents

ITV News says 45,000 leasehold houses sold in last five years. LKP claims £300-500m new home freeholds sold every year

Sapphire Fields comes clean over leasehold terms

Shaken ground rent whistleblower pulls out of BBC radio interview after lawyer’s letter

Well, goodbye 2016

Commons leasehold debate. December 20 2016

Taylor Wimpey abandons the leasehold houses racket from January 1

Commons debate leasehold. Tuesday December 20

Commons to debate leasehold reform next Tuesday. And Bottomley intends to name leasehold game-players …

Taylor Wimpey more greedy than the ground rent ‘Mr Smallweeds’ (and so are other plc housebuilders)

Taylor Wimpey CEO to meet MPs over ‘cancer’ of doubling ground rents (which were deterring astute buyers in 2007!)

Labour to cap ‘legalised extortion’ of ground rents and end leasehold houses … Opposition and government now compete to reform leasehold

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Guardian sticks with new-build ground rent scandal, while LKP advises Persimmon home buyers to walk away

Sajid Javid vows to ‘stamp out abuses’ over leasehold that make homes unsellable

Sunday Times reports Taylor Wimpey ground rent scandal, as executives meet leaseholders

End lease extension ‘injustice’, veteran MP urges Commons

Last year: £64.8bn leasehold properties sold. £13.7bn was new-build. Leasehold house numbers double. Developers make £300-500 million a year from ground rent sales

Taylor Wimpey ground rent explanation ‘not true’, BBC is told

Ban revenue-generating leasehold houses, says Justin Madders MP. Redrow responds

Sunday Telegraph says ‘New homes, yes, but not leasehold’

‘New-build ground rent scandal could spark legal battles,’ says Guardian

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

LKP poised to mine information on leasehold, after being admitted to Open Data Institute

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

Campaign against Residential Leasehold Exploitation and AgeUK reject Law Commission draft on exit fees

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