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Demo at First-Time Buyers show warns of developers’ leasehold rip-offs

Responses to the government consultation

Leasehold dystopia

E&J Capital Partners ‘compelled’ to sell freehold to Taylor Wimpey house to pensioner for £38,000 (plus £4,000 costs)

What’s the probability that government leasehold statistics are still useless?

Pensioner paid £38,000 for Taylor Wimpey freehold to ground rent speculators E&J Capital Partners

MPs tell government consultation: End leasehold houses. Scrap new ground rents. Ignore pleas for self-regulation. Ban Help To Buy on rip-off leaseholds

Ground rent speculator in leasehold homes laments losses in FT

BBC Radio Manchester wades into the leasehold houses scandal

Civil Justice Council says don’t ban leasehold houses

Countdown to take part in Sajid Javid’s consultation

Has Taylor Wimpey done just enough to avoid being successfully sued?

LKP lunch-time Friday lecture: How we made 2.1 million homes appear

Taylor Wimpey and Long Harbour deal to defuse toxic lease scandal … after 11 months!

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?

MailOnline forensically examines Taylor Wimpey couple stuck in leasehold house with £590pa to Adriatic Land

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