Persimmon

More than 20,000 leaseholders benefit from CMA action over ground rent mis-selling

National Leasehold Campaign email dump urges developers to settle up like Aviva and Persimmon have done with CMA

‘You weren’t mis-sold your leasehold house and I am keeping my £45m bonus’, is the message of Persimmon CEO to Bluebell Meadow

South Somerset council enters the ‘fleecehold’ racket

Mass email dump: leasehold home owners demand their freeholds after Persimmon caves into court action

18% of leasehold houses paid for with Help To Buy, says FT in devastating attack

Help To Buy cheat Persimmon racks up £1bn profits – and spread the plague of leasehold houses around the country

Leasehold house owners thank Brokenshire after Persimmon sells freehold to leasehold house for less than £3,750

For God’s sake! Now it emerges £8.3 billion Help To Buy scheme – that turned house builder executives into multi-millionaires – is not available on commonhold properties!

The Economist notes LKP’s agenda to reform leasehold

Is your leasehold home – from Taylor Wimpey, Persimmon etc – a life sentence? Ask the estate agents who can’t sell them

Kit Malthouse to meet Persimmon over doubling ground rent at Picket Twenty site

Ground rents are so valid … to pay out £300m bonuses to Persimmon cronies

‘Fleecehold’ petition launched to stop housebuilders creating YET ANOTHER revenue stream from their customers

Mail and Telegraph pile on the misery for Persimmon’s Jeffrey Fairburn (Good, says LKP, he deserves it)

Persimmon sold leasehold houses for £50,000 more than same-size freehold houses at Harrow View West

Demo at First-Time Buyers show warns of developers’ leasehold rip-offs

Criticism over bumper pay bonuses for Persimmon and Berkeley bosses

Now Bovis says ‘Our houses are freehold’. (Gleeson’s always were …)

Business Insider reports how easily developers get round ‘right of first refusal’

Furious Persimmon leasehold house owners at Harrow View West demand their freeholds

The Sun attacks ‘fatcat’ housebuilders with inflated fortunes thanks to Help To Buy

Should you buy a leasehold house now? Certainly not!

The sector fights back … er, deploying LEASE chair Roger Southam

Buyers walk away from toxic Persimmon leasehold house

Ripped-off leaseholders bring protest to central Manchester

Bellway Homes attempts to explain why leasehold houses are just fine. And it is self-interested rubbish …

Jeffrey Fairburn, Persimmon CEO, drops ‘virtual freehold’ when selling leasehold

Daily Mail turns up the heat on ‘fat cat’ housebuilder bosses

Vans are banned in Persimmon leases, so here is one outside your sales suite!

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

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

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