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Victoria Derbyshire told ‘we must end cheating speculators in leasehold housing’

Affluent London leaseholders are just as likely to be kicked around as poor ones, finds the Sunday Times

‘If I fail to offend anyone, I will do it next time,’ Bottomley tells appalled leasehold professionals at LEASE annual conference

Housing minister urges transparency over retirement exit fees

Housing minister says LEASE must be on the side of leaseholders, and promises more money

Leasehold injustices on BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire show

Gavin Barwell: ‘No excuse for leasehold houses or punitive ground rents and we will stamp them out’

The day the Leasehold Advisory Service was returned to leaseholders

LKP tells Sunday Times reader not to buy leasehold house (and there is no excuse for them)

Housebuilders ‘pimp their profits’ by selling freeholds, says Financial Times columnist

Taylor Wimpey’s Speakman Gardens now erupts in protest

Help offered to leasehold house owners facing onerous ground rents

Brighton council leaseholders win refunds for major works

Now Daily Telegraph wades into the leasehold house racket

Cramlington: The wet dream of housebuilders, where everything is sold leasehold

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

Viscount Astor hears the lamentations of leaseholders

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

We want to hear more from developers putting things right, says housing minister

Justin ‘Madders than hell’ about Taylor Wimpey / Bellway / Redrow ground rent scams in leasehold houses

Billionaire John Christodoulou and his lawyer David Marsden accused of ‘little short of harassment’ of court-appointed managing agent

Mixed verdict on Leasehold Advisory Service

Ground rent scam ‘creates new asset class,’ says Ruth Cadbury

Tchenguiz ‘skulduggery’, Peverel / Cirrus bid-rigging scam and Charter Quay: all get another outing

Right to manage woes at Elim and Regent Courts retirement sites

Taylor Wimpey abandons the leasehold houses racket from January 1

Commons debate leasehold. Tuesday December 20