Parliament

Companies like ARMA member SDL Bigwood are ripping off homeowners in private estates, Parliament is told

Justin Madders: this could be called the Leasehold Emancipation Bill

Two opportunities to raise leasehold scandals in Parliament today

Justin Madders launches Bill to end the enfranchisement and lease extension racket

Sajid Javid has thought about leasehold property management and does not like what he sees …

Dudley Joiner and Barry Weir named in Commons … and Roger Southam invited to retire

Labour MP Helen Hayes ‘disappointed’ by Sajid Javid’s response on leasehold scandal

Responses to the government consultation

MPs tell government consultation: End leasehold houses. Scrap new ground rents. Ignore pleas for self-regulation. Ban Help To Buy on rip-off leaseholds

APPG tells MPs: Ban ground rents. Introduce commonhold. Summons housebuilders to select committee. End rip-off ‘fleasehold’ permission fees on managed estates

Sector foxes warn that changing leasehold will be ‘dangerous’. But for whom?

Commons Library’s excellent resume of leasehold problems will give MPs plenty of ideas for reform

E&J Capital Partners in full retreat over rapacious ground rent terms

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

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

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

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

Welcome, Alok Sharma … another new Conservative housing minister

LKP patron Sir Ed Davey returns to Parliament

All Party Parliamentary Group: this is how to reform leasehold

BBC R4 You and Yours reports MPs saying leasehold houses are a ‘national con’

Leasehold houses and the sales process were ‘absolutely disgusting’, MPs told. But have laws been broken?

MP urges Commons to condemn developers selling leasehold houses with onerous ground rents. And names Taylor Wimpey, Persimmon, Bellway and Adriatic Land …

Will Astor should come to meet leasehold house owners in Ellesmere Port

Leasehold houses are the ‘spivvy idea of a financial director to make more money on wet Thursday afternoon’, says MP

Adriatic Land now wants £54,000 for my freehold that Taylor Wimpey said would cost £6,000

71% of leasehold house buyers used developer recommended solicitors

Why are leasehold house owners mobilising while flat owners suffer in silence?

Leasehold houses expose ‘gulf between the letter and the spirit of the law’, say ministers

Government considers adding leasehold abuses to consumer protection law

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