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Persimmon

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

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, Ground rent scandal, HomeSlider, Latest News, News, Persimmon, Sir Peter Bottomley, Slider Posts, Taylor WimpeyTag: Bovis Homes, CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, Countryside Properties plc, Crest Nicholson, Galliford Try, Ground rents, Linden Homes, Miller Homes, Redrow, Taylor Wimpey, Tchenguiz Family Trust, Vistry, Wallace Partnership Group

Countryside Properties plc

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

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, E&J Capital Partners, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Persimmon, Redrow, Taylor Wimpey, Tchenguiz, William Waldorf AstorTag: Aviva, Barratt, Bellway Homes, Bovis Homes, CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, Countryside Properties plc, Jason Honeyman, Persimmon, Pier Management

Bluebell Meadow

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

Category: Latest News, News, PersimmonTag: Bluebell Meadow, Brandon Lewis, David Jenkinson, Persimmon

South Somerset council enters the ‘fleecehold’ racket

Category: Fleecehold, Latest News, News, PersimmonTag: Augusta Park, Fleasehold, Fleecehold, Persimmon, South Somerset

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

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, PersimmonTag: David Jenkinson, David Thomas, Justin Madders MP, Mark Francois MP, Persimmon, Robert Halfon Mp, Siobhain McDonagh MP

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

Category: Latest News, News, Persimmon, PressTag: Financial Times, Help To Buy, Merryn Somerset Webb, Persimmon

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

Category: Latest News, News, Persimmon, PressTag: Clive Betts MP, David Jenkinson, Help To Buy, Persimmon, The Times

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

Category: Fleecehold, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, PersimmonTag: James Brokenshire MP, Persimmon, TrudyHarrisonMP

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!

Category: Commonhold, Latest News, News, PersimmonTag: Commonhold, David Jenkinson, Help To Buy, Hopton Build, Jeff Fairburn, Stewart Moxon

The Economist notes LKP’s agenda to reform leasehold

Category: Latest News, News, Persimmon, PressTag: Anis Kasmani, David Jenkinson, Harrow View West, Harry Scoffin, Jeff Fairburn, Persimmon, The Economist

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

Category: Latest News, National Leasehold Campaign, News, Persimmon, PressTag: Countryside Properties plc, Leasehold houses, National Association of Estate Agents, Persimmon, Redrow, Taylor Wimpey, The Times

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

Category: Latest News, News, Persimmon, PressTag: Andover Star, Ground rents, Jeff Fairburn, Kit Malthouse, Persimmon

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

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, PersimmonTag: Aberdeen Standards Investments, Jeffrey Fairburn, Persimmon

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

Category: Fleecehold, Latest News, News, PersimmonTag: Alexander Middleton, Anthony Winston Burton, Antony John Dean, Colin David Thomson, Gateway Property Management, Gerry Campbell More, HorNet, Janet McQuillan, Persimmon, The Guardian

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

Category: Latest News, National Leasehold Campaign, News, Persimmon, PressTag: Jeffrey Fairburn, Katie Kendrick, Mail on Sunday, Persimmon, The Sunday Telegraph

Persimmon sleaze

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

Category: HomeSlider, Latest News, News, NewsSlider, PersimmonTag: BBC North, Harrow View West, Jeffrey Fairburn, Persimmon

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

Category: Latest News, National Leasehold Campaign, News, PersimmonTag: Bellway, Katie Kendrick, National Leasehold Campaign, Persimmon, Redrow, Taylor Wimpey

Criticism over bumper pay bonuses for Persimmon and Berkeley bosses

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, PersimmonTag: Berkeley, Help To Buy, Jeffrey Fairburn, Persimmon, Sajid Javid, Tony Pidgley

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

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, PersimmonTag: Aveley, Bloor Homes, Bovis Homes, Gleeson Homes, Persimmon

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

Category: Latest News, News, Persimmon, Press, William Waldorf AstorTag: Bellway, Business Insider, Hart Brown, Long Harbour, Neo Bankside, Persimmon, Right of first refusal, Thomas Colson, William Waldorf Astor Philip Rainey QC

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

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, PersimmonTag: Harrow View West, Persimmon

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

Category: Bellway, Ground rent scandal, HomeSlider, Latest News, News, NewsSlider, Persimmon, Press, Redrow, Taylor Wimpey, Tchenguiz, William Waldorf AstorTag: Bellway Homes, E&J Capital Partners, Homeground Management Limited, James Tuttiett, Jeffrey Fairburn, Long Harbour, Persimmon, Pete Redfern, Redrow, Samantha Cameron, Steve Morgan, Taylor Wimpey, Ted Ayres, The Sun, Vincent Tchenguiz, William Waldorf Astor

Should you buy a leasehold house now? Certainly not!

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Persimmon, Press, Taylor WimpeyTag: Daily Mail

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

Category: Latest News, LEASE, News, Persimmon, Roger Southam, Taylor WimpeyTag: Leasehold Advisory Service, Roger Southam

Buyers walk away from toxic Persimmon leasehold house

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Persimmon, PressTag: Harford Mews, Jeffrey Fairburn, Persimmon, The Plymouth Herald

Ripped-off leaseholders bring protest to central Manchester

Category: Bellway, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Persimmon, Redrow, Taylor WimpeyTag: Alok Sharma, Katie Kendrick, National Leasehold Campaign

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

Category: Bellway, Fleecehold, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Persimmon, RedrowTag: Bellway, Bellway Homes, Ted Ayres

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

Category: Latest News, News, PersimmonTag: Jeffrey Fairburn, Persimmon

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

Category: Latest News, News, Persimmon, Press, Redrow, Taylor WimpeyTag: Bovis Homes, Duncan Scott, Help To Buy, Persimmon, Priced Out, Taylor Wimpey

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

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Persimmon, Taylor WimpeyTag: Chris Leslie MP, Mark Garnier MP, Persimmon, Taylor Wimpey

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

Category: APPG April 19 2017, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Parliament, Persimmon, Redrow, Taylor WimpeyTag: Andrew Selous MP, APPG, BBC R4 You and Yours, Joanne Darbyshire, Justin Madders MP, Melanie Abbott, MPs' APPG on leasehold

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

Category: APPG April 19 2017, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Parliament, Persimmon, Taylor WimpeyTag: Adriatic Land, Bellway, Persimmon, Sir Peter Bottomley, Taylor Wimpey

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

Category: APPG April 19 2017, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Parliament, PersimmonTag: Andrew Selous MP, Galliford Try, Persimmon

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