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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!

Pensioners hammered with 88% rise in ground rents, says Better Retirement Housing

Protestors gather outside ANOTHER housebuilder: Galliford Try

Neo Bankside leaseholders offered freehold for £4.8m, but have eight weeks to agree deal

Ground Rents Income Fund plc says it wants to be a ‘socially responsible landlord’. How about: socially responsible ex-landlord?

Murky investors hitching a ride on the English (and Welsh) homeowner, thanks to leasehold

‘Fright night’ for Taylor Wimpey as profits fall 24% over leasehold scandal, says Times

Roger Southam silenced on LEASE website as blog is removed

Our ground rents are fair, says McCarthy and Stone (even though they go up to £600 and are for no service whatsoever)

Buyers would have ignored ground rent clauses even if we had told them, says conveyancer Rob Hailstone

Savills and Allsops: Why ground rents from people’s home are just so ‘attractive’

Leasehold houses have at last got the scandal of ground rents into the nation’s consciousness. But this is much worse …

The sector fights back … er, deploying LEASE chair Roger Southam

Ground rent protestors stage ANOTHER demonstration against leasehold houses and charges

Daily Mail reports E&J Estates and wine-growing freeholder James Tuttiett

Spire View, in Pickering, shows a commonhold future with no leases at all, says Sunday Times

Daily Telegraph reports the new-build leasehold houses ban

Scandal makes Ground Rents Income Fund plc fall £6m since March but … it has paid out 40.6% in three years

Housebuilders and stooge conveyancing solicitors face legal action, reports The Times

Guardian says: It’s time to send the feudal leasehold system crashing. Amen, to that

Guardian (again today) on freeholders’ endless fees