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

Category: Bellway, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Persimmon, Press, Taylor WimpeyTag: Persimmon, Sunday Times

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

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Press, Taylor WimpeyTag: Financial Times, James Wyatt, Merryn Somerset Webb, Parthenia

Taylor Wimpey’s Speakman Gardens now erupts in protest

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Taylor WimpeyTag: George Howarth, Help To Buy, Marie Rimmer MP, Speakman Gardens, Taylor Wimpey

Help offered to leasehold house owners facing onerous ground rents

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Taylor WimpeyTag: Louie Burns, Mari Knowles, Taylor Wimpey

Brighton council leaseholders win refunds for major works

Category: Latest News, Local authority leasehold, NewsTag: Brighton and Hove

Now Daily Telegraph wades into the leasehold house racket

Category: Bellway, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Persimmon, Press, Redrow, Taylor WimpeyTag: Adriatic Land, Katie Kendrick, The Daily Telegraph

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

Category: Bellway, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Persimmon, Taylor WimpeyTag: Bellway, Cramlington, Taylor Wimpey

Bellway offers young mother freehold for £3,750. But Adriatic Land demands £12,750 … then agrees to half the sum

Category: Bellway, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, William Waldorf AstorTag: Adriatic Land, Adriatic Land 4 (GR1) Limited, Bellway, Homeground Management Limited, James Stacy Aumonier, Justin Madders MP, Long Harbour, Richard John Sherry, William Waldorf Astor

Buyer pulls out of Persimmon £219,995 leasehold house purchase

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Persimmon, Taylor WimpeyTag: Bellway, Help To Buy, Persimmon

Beech Developments sets off customer mutiny in Wales with grasping ground rents

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Beech Developments, Gwel y Mynydd, Llandudno Junction, Mark Hawthornthwaite, Matthew Gilmartin, William John Coplin

Viscount Astor hears the lamentations of leaseholders

Category: APPG, Ground rent scandal, HomeSlider, News, William Waldorf AstorTag: Adriatic Land, Frank Sixt, Ground rents, JimFitzpatrick, Long Harbour, Tarbert estate, Viscount Astor, Will Astor

ITV News says 45,000 leasehold houses sold in last five years. LKP claims £300-500m new home freeholds sold every year

Category: Ground rent scandal, HomeSlider, Latest News, News, Taylor WimpeyTag: Allegra Stratton, Bolton, Clair Scott, ITV News, Leasehold houses, Silver Birch Close, Taylor Wimpey

Sapphire Fields comes clean over leasehold terms

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Persimmon, Taylor WimpeyTag: Roger Southam, Sapphire Fields, Taylor Wimpey

Shaken ground rent whistleblower pulls out of BBC radio interview after lawyer’s letter

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Taylor WimpeyTag: Bannister Preston Solicitors, Bellway, Berrymans Lace Mawer, Clair Scott, David Carter Hughes, Katie Kendrick, Sajid Javid, Sir Peter Bottomley, Taylor Wimpey

Well, goodbye 2016

Category: Latest News, News, Taylor Wimpey

Commons leasehold debate. December 20 2016

Category: APPG, Benjamin Mire, Commons Debate 20/12/16, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, John Christodoulou, Justin Madders MP, Latest News, Martin Paine, Parliament, Persimmon, Press, Sir Peter Bottomley, Taylor WimpeyTag: Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Justin Madders MP, Mundy, Oliver Colvile MP, Sir Peter Bottomley, The Guardian

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

Category: Commons Debate 20/12/16, Taylor WimpeyTag: Gavin Barwell, Justin Madders MP

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

Category: Bellway, Commons Debate 20/12/16, Justin Madders MP, Redrow, Taylor WimpeyTag: Bellway, E & J Capital Partners, Justin Madders MP, Redrow, Taylor Wimpey

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

Category: Canary Riverside, Commons Debate 20/12/16, HomeSlider, John Christodoulou, Parliament, West India QuayTag: 25% rule, Canary Riverside, David Marsden, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, John Christodoulou, Mixed-use sites, Trowers and Hamlins, West India Quay

Mixed verdict on Leasehold Advisory Service

Category: Commons Debate 20/12/16, Roger SouthamTag: Dorchester Ground Rent Management, Julius Gottlieb, Roger Southam

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

Category: Bellway, Commons Debate 20/12/16, Ground rent scandal, Parliament, Taylor WimpeyTag: Bellway, Ruth Cadbury MP

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

Category: Commons Debate 20/12/16, TchenguizTag: Charter Quay, Cirrus, Vincent Tchenguiz

Right to manage woes at Elim and Regent Courts retirement sites

Category: Commons Debate 20/12/16, Moskovitz / Gurvits, News, Retirement, RTMTag: Elim Court, Israel Moskovitz, Joseph Gurvits, Oliver Colvile, Regent Court, Retirement

Taylor Wimpey abandons the leasehold houses racket from January 1

Category: APPG, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, MPs' APPG on leasehold, News, Taylor WimpeyTag: APPG, Bob Bessell, Louie Burns, Patrick Collinson, Philip Rainey QC, Roger Southam, Taylor Wimpey

Commons debate leasehold. Tuesday December 20

Category: APPG December 14 2016, Ground rent scandal, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Latest News, MPs' APPG on leasehold, News, Parliament

70 attend APPG on leasehold after ground rent scandal grabs media attention

Category: APPG, APPG December 14 2016, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Justin Madders MP, MPs' APPG on leasehold, Parliament, Persimmon, Sir Peter Bottomley, Taylor WimpeyTag: APPG, Barratt, Bob Bessell, David Thomas, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Justin Madders MP, Patrick Collinson, Ruth Cadbury MP, Sir Peter Bottomley, Taylor Wimpey, The Guardian

Guardian’s Patrick Collinson says ‘time to reform leasehold in entirety’

Category: APPG December 14 2016, MPs' APPG on leaseholdTag: Patrick Collinson, The Guardian

Housebuilder Bob Bessell says ‘no justification for ground rents at all’

Category: APPG December 14 2016, MPs' APPG on leaseholdTag: Bob Bessell, Retirement Security Limited

Philip Rainey QC: Are we creating homes or an investment asset class?

Category: APPG December 14 2016, HomeSlider, MPs' APPG on leasehold, Philip Rainey QCTag: Philip Rainey QC

Open Data Institute says data will be key to reforming leasehold

Category: APPG December 14 2016, MPs' APPG on leaseholdTag: Jeni Tennison, Open Data Institute, Peter Wells, Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Questions from APPG attendees: Ground rent sale prices have risen tenfold since 2007

Category: APPG, APPG December 14 2016, Conveyancing Association, MPs' APPG on leaseholdTag: Barratt, Beth Rudolf, Canary Riverside, Cherry Jones, Conveyancing Association, David Thomas, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, John Christodoulou, Leasehold Law, Leasehold Solutions, Louie Burns, Mari Knowles, Yianis Group

Commons to debate leasehold reform next Tuesday. And Bottomley intends to name leasehold game-players …

Category: APPG December 14 2016, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Latest News, MPs' APPG on leasehold, News, Parliament, Sir Peter BottomleyTag: APPG, Danny Truell, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Sir Peter Bottomley, Wellcome Trust

Taylor Wimpey more greedy than the ground rent ‘Mr Smallweeds’ (and so are other plc housebuilders)

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Parliament, Taylor WimpeyTag: Ground rents, Groundrentsforsale, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Mr Smallweed, Pete Redfern, Sir Peter Bottomley, Taylor Wimpey, Wates

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