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Here we go … Bellway porkies to talk up leasehold

Oxford leaseholders win first round against £60,000 major works bills

Southwark council leaseholders see major works bill slashed from £17,000 to £8,000

ITV News covers the leasehold house scandal, and homeowners stage mass demo on March 18

LEASE chair Roger Southam in Private Eye (again)

Dear Pete Redfern (again) … Opaque leases, dubious ‘independent’ legal advice, no contact from Taylor Wimpey during its ‘review’, normal industry practice to stuff clients with leasehold houses (especially in North West)

‘I don’t see why houses are sold leasehold,’ says prime minister. Is this the final nail?

MP Justin Madders questions role of Roger Southam as LEASE chair

Taylor Wimpey rejects responsibility to resale buyers facing doubling ground rents

Linden Homes calls in libel lawyers to silence customer who spoke to BBC

Justin Madders MP demands LEASE chair has ‘no business interests in the leasehold sector’

No van man here: Persimmon bans first-time buyer from parking his van at his leasehold house

Israel Moskovitz loses epic Elim Court right to manage battle in landmark Court of Appeal decision

Time for the tribunal to dismiss trivial objections to right to manage after Elim Case

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 Ted Ayres … your company Bellway sold our family’s future

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