Parliament

Commons leasehold debate. December 20 2016

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

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

Taylor Wimpey abandons the leasehold houses racket from January 1

Commons debate leasehold. Tuesday December 20

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

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

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

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

Open Data Institute says data will be key to reforming leasehold

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

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

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

Taylor Wimpey CEO to meet MPs over ‘cancer’ of doubling ground rents (which were deterring astute buyers in 2007!)

Labour to cap ‘legalised extortion’ of ground rents and end leasehold houses … Opposition and government now compete to reform leasehold

Guardian sticks with new-build ground rent scandal, while LKP advises Persimmon home buyers to walk away

Sajid Javid vows to ‘stamp out abuses’ over leasehold that make homes unsellable

Ban revenue-generating leasehold houses, says Justin Madders MP. Redrow responds

Taylor Wimpey CEO says doubling ground rent scandal under ‘review’. But Bottomley asks: ‘Have innocent homebuyers been shafted?’

LKP poised to mine information on leasehold, after being admitted to Open Data Institute

Bottomley tells Taylor Wimpey to explain ‘sharp practice’ ground rents – and asks for names of directors who approved them

Pete Redfern: Stop pontificating about the housing crisis and sort out the ground rent scandal of Taylor Wimpey’s own making

First-time buyers facing £8,000 ground rents stuffed by plc housebuilders

Land Registry sell-off is shelved (for the moment)

LKP meeting with housing minister Gavin Barwell

All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and commonhold established today

Former Labour minister Sally Keeble is new ARMA regulator

Stop the leasehold ‘rip-offs’ by joining our APPG, Fitzpatrick tells MPs

Law Commission: ‘We want to hear about problems in leasehold law’

Commonhold or leasehold, it still needs managing

For first time in 14 years, Westminster hears more of commonhold

LKP meets Roger Southam and Taylor Wimpey over embedded management companies

Martin Paine, embedded management companies, LKP … all raised in Queen’s speech debate