Retirement

Your chance to say what you think about retirement housing before September 18

Investors see gold in retirement housing, but oldies have taken a look and remain wary … Brighter developers are pushing for change

Bottomley to raise with Churchill Retirement its decision to continue charging ground rents

Bungling operations manager and directors at retirement site Dibleys Heritage signed £66,000 a year energy deal incorrectly – and have cost leaseholders £40,000 in legal fees

Retirement housebuilder Platinum Skies breached shared ownership rules with onerous ‘staircasing’ charges in the lease

Pensioner loses £130,000 to escape Roseland Parc Retirement Village. But it is worth it, she says …

Pensioners in retirement housing face £150,000 fire safety bill, but McCarthy and Stone isn’t reponsible (nor is FirstPort, and NHBC hasn’t responded)

Rip-off retirement leasehold fees give Corrie’s Ken Barlow a feast of plot lines. Let’s hope he leads a right to manage rebellion …

Corrie’s Ken Barlow warned against buying ‘red flags’ leasehold flat on upmarket retirement site

Retirement housebuilders will only reform when they are forced to do so, Lord Best tells property conference

The Times reports that families ‘lost £3 billion’ on resale of leasehold retirement flats, while developers and freehold speculators made millions

Guardian reports dismal retirement flat re-sale prices, as seller ponders £28,000 offer

Government will cave in to retirement house builders over ground rents, says Times

Still hope for zero ground rents, says Brokenshire. Please end them for retirement too, says LKP

Falling property prices expose pension exposure to equity release, warns LKP trustee

Your Housing Group shared equity retirement flat sells for £39,129.26, after three years on the market

Family outraged by £50,000 exit fee on sale at Retirement Villages’ Mayford Grange

Rectory Court slashes service charges after dumping Stonewater for right to manage LKP accredited managing agent

Did government cop-out on retirement ground rents stuff new thinking in the sector?

Ground rents to be allowed in retirement housing, says government

Retirement sector thought it would prompt leasehold reform, but leasehold houses and double ground rents were even worse …

APPG July 11: Robust debate over retirement ground rents and event fees

APPG July 11: Retirement event fees ‘align interests of buyers and operators’, Michael Voges tells meeting

Retirement housebuilders and speculators plead to be allowed ground rents in the Evening Standard

Anti-ground rent trade body ARCO snubbed at retirement housing conference … (along with us, less surprisingly)

Please exempt retirement housebuilders from ground rent ban, pleads Sir Desmond Swayne

McCarthy and Stone: Ground rents are not the future of retirement housing

FirstPort Retirement is allowed into ARMA

Sebastian O’Kelly addresses retirement property managers. Were you lynched? No, they agreed: leasehold ‘granny flats’ have no future

BetterRetirementHousing.com reports retirement resale disasters. On BBCR4 MoneyBox today

Pensioners hammered with 88% rise in ground rents, says Better Retirement Housing

My granny’s Audley Retirement home ‘was a money pit’ costing £48,000 in exit fees

Housing minister urges transparency over retirement exit fees