William Waldorf Astor

When inflation linked ground rents are worse than ten-year doubling ones. That would be now …

Can’t we hear why leasehold reform is bad straight from the top: from Count Padulli, or Will Astor, or James Tuttiett, or the Gould brothers, or Vincent Tchenguiz … ?

CMA slaps down doubling ground rents of 15 punters who bought cheating freeholds from Countryside Properties plc

Hallmark Property Group seeks to put 44 flats worth £15m on top of a block with ACM cladding, waking watch, a B2 rating after EWS1 … and 75 utterly stressed out leaseholders

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

Oh, dear! Long Harbour private equity speculators buy freehold where ground rent FALLS from £250 to £143

MPs fail to stop Robert Jenrick’s multi-billion pound planning hand-out to offshore freeholders

Beware ‘MacDUFF’ Scottish consumer-friendly land laws, say freeholders in lobbying report to save their incomes

Long Harbour’s Adriatic Land backs leaseholders at Skyline Central 1 to get public money for HPL removal

Fatcat freeholders SHAMED by MHCLG for having no plan to remove Grenfell cladding from their buildings include Long Harbour and James Tuttiett

Rebecca Long-Bailey asks Will Astor why Long Harbour is demanding £10,000 to vary toxic doubling ground rent leases

Does Li Ka-shing own your Adriatic freehold, or Hutchison Whampoa, or billionaire Frank Sixt, or Astor? Only Long Harbour knows, and it’s not saying …

Ending ground rents will hurt leaseholders, says Long Harbour …

Boris’s PR gurus Crosby Textor have NOT been nobbling government over ground rents (well, not since autumn 2017 anyway …)

Long Harbour hits reverse on forfeiture to £800,000 flat over £400 ground rent … and JB Leitch halves its legal bill

Barking fire site is owned by anonymous investors in Adriatic Land

Tory MP Stephen McPartland shames Long Harbour / Adriatic Land into dropping doubling ground rent leases

Are hedge funds behind Long Harbour, asks Tory MP

Brokenshire tells freeholders to pay up to remove Grenfell cladding. But how can that work?

Anonymous freeholders are the reliable long-term custodians of blocks of flats, Select Committee is told

Questions for MPs to ask Taylor Wimpey and Long Harbour today …

Long Harbour lobby MP Kate Osamor bars leasehold activist from Twitter feed

Government thinking freeholders are paternalistic long-term custodians of a building is where it has gone wrong over Grenfell cladding

Why should Will Astor, Tchenguiz etc be paying to remove Grenfell cladding?

Private Eye identifies yet another murky offshore landlord, Vuillard Holdings Limited, with Grenfell cladding

Kate Osamor MP asks parliamentary questions for Long Harbour on ground rents, says Daily Telegraph

Don’t buy leasehold, says Merryn Somerset Webb of Money Week, but …

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

Government to ask Will Astor: who is the offshore freeholder at Heysmoor Heights (where ordinary families face £18k Grenfell cladding bills)?

Sesame Apartments: Yet another anonymous Long Harbour freeholder demanding £2.2 million over Grenfell cladding

Countryside Properties plc and Long Harbour to offer deal to end ground rent scam at Silver Point

Tchenguiz, Astor and offshore freeholders like Abacus Land 4 Limited should PUBLICLY meet over Grenfell cladding, MPs told

Grenfell cladding debate: Who thinks offshore freeholders will pay (apart from government ministers)?