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James Tuttiett’s tangled web of E&J freeholds scrutinised by the Guardian

First squawk from the (smaller) house builders

Patrick Collinson, of The Guardian, … on leasehold

Media storm over leasehold as government declares ban on leasehold houses and rip-off ground rents

Daily Mail on leasehold houses and doubling ground rent scandals

One article among many yesterday … from LKP

Government to ban leasehold houses and set ground rents ‘as low as’ zero

Englishman’s home isn’t a castle: it’s a revenue stream for an offshore company thanks to national housebuilders, Justin Madders tells the Commons

I had to spend £14,000 to change double ground rent to RPI at Ausden Place. But will I get compo from Taylor Wimpey?

Signal Building leaseholders told to sell flats back to Southwark council

Adriatic Land and other freeholders ‘acting like robbers’, Commons told

Who are Dublin-based Boardwalk Finance DAC and Jetty Finance DAC? Why do they own freeholds to people’s homes? And why are they based abroad?

BBC R4 You and Yours features £36,000 car crash leasehold defiance over Southwark major works scheme

Mortgage lenders and conveyancers lay bare the rot of leasehold to MPs

Marie Rimmer MP: how can a modest Taylor Wimpey leasehold house in St Helens pay out £185,850 to freehold investors over 60 years?

Stella Creasy MP backs leasehold reform … and Kirstie Allsopp is Tweeting to stop leasehold house sales

Buyers walk away from toxic Persimmon leasehold house

Ripped-off leaseholders bring protest to central Manchester

Taylor Wimpey gets round ‘right of first refusal’ to buy freehold by selling the block BEFORE more than half flats are sold

Woman signs up to doubling ground rent to extend lease on £70,000 flat. Is it now sellable at all?

Peter Bottomley MP calls for a debate on leasehold reform

“Leaseholders are being let down again by Taylor Wimpey” says MP

Grenfell Tower, what next?

Taylor Wimpey ground rent “assistance” review -update

Welcome, Alok Sharma … another new Conservative housing minister

BBC R4 You and Yours now turns to Countryside’s doubling ground rents

LKP patron Sir Ed Davey returns to Parliament

Housebuilders attempt to justify leasehold scams on ITV’s New Build Nightmares

Doubling ground rents owned by John Lewis Partnership Pension Trust … and managed by Tchenguiz

RTMF says it’s vindicated on Triplerose, but fails to mention it lost earlier case

Now Pier Management only wants £48 sublet fee … after £120 demand on the dead

Ratner moment for UK housebuilders, says Chris Blythe, CEO of Chartered Institute of Building

Bellway Homes attempts to explain why leasehold houses are just fine. And it is self-interested rubbish …