Press

Moneywise does a thorough job reporting leasehold

Marriage value a bogus profit in the £2.5bn enfranchisement racket, LKP trustee Dean Buckner tells BBC

Does Dominic Cumming’s gung-ho planning idea put a hole in Law Commission’s enfranchisement reforms by boosting freehold values?

New fire safety certificate to unlock UK high-rise flat market after Advice Notice 14 resulted in valuations of zero, FT reports

LKP trustees Katie Kendrick and Louie Burns tell Sky News and BBC R4 MoneyBox of ‘David and Goliath’ fight for freeholds

Leaseholder of £3m pad in central London demands £100 a day off Gerald Ronson for no internet

Families challenge Long Harbour for freeholds to Bellway leasehold houses, The Times reports

Grenfell United link up with leaseholder groups to protest cladding crisis and warn next government of Grenfell 2

Would you want your former Prudential pension invested in Tchenguiz ground rents by Rothesay Life? FT reports concerns

Taxpayers funding two leasehold houses a day in 2019 through Help To Buy … despite government saying THREE times they should be banned

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

After ground rents and cladding … now lenders won’t touch rip-off ‘fleecehold’ properties either, BBC reports

Cladding crisis: How worse can it get?

NLC conveyancing report on BBC R4 You and Yours today

Fairview New Homes cancels sale as buyer wanted own solicitor and mortgage broker, says Times

Redrow: ‘shoddy workmanship and leasehold games’, but bumper profits from Help To Buy

John McDonnell is a leaseholder, reveals Daily Mail in hatchet job article

Leaseholders pay up to 60% more for buildings insurance because of secret commissions, reports The Times

Ending ground rents will hurt leaseholders, says Long Harbour …

The i newspaper links leasehold ‘slums of the future’ to Help To Buy and the Tchenguiz Family Trust

Victoria Derbyshire Show reports the toll of leasehold miseries on mental health

Leaseholders to sue government over fire safety measures

Now it is Shanly Homes dumping its customers into unsellable homes

Taylor Wimpey’s Pete Redfern tells FT ‘we got it wrong on ground rents’

Have young buyers woken up to the great leasehold hoax? Looks like it …

BBC R4 MoneyBox hears that a CMA mis-selling ruling could see leaseholders suing plc house builders. Hope so!

Estate agents say extortionate charges are blighting the lives of 10% of leaseholders

Board ousted at St Katherine’s Dock after whopping £5.5m major works bill

Press reports how freehold doubled in price to £15,900 after being sold to Landmark Investments

Peterborough by-election Brexit Party candidate was director of E&J Ground Rents

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

Brokenshire announces £200m Grenfell cladding removal fund – hours after APPG meeting of leaseholders

Leaseholder and judge Suki Johal wins war over her patio that has cost £250,000