Press

Could paying off Help To Buy loans on blighted homes force government to act over Grenfell cladding … and doubling ground rents?

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

FT looks at financial consequence to freehold speculators of #leaseholdscandal

Pinsent Masons believes ban on ‘almost all’ new leasehold houses to have retrospective effect

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

Hilary Benn rounds on Miller Homes in Leeds constituency

‘Our David Wilson Homes leasehold house means we don’t own it, or the land, pay ground rent and consent fees to anonymous speculators in freeholds, often based offshore,’ Cheshire woman tells local paper

Leasehold Roadshow heads for Leeds on February 27

Newcastle leasehold house owners stuff attempt by Barratt and Keepmoat to sell their freeholds

Fresh building is to pay £100,000 for fire marshals … with more Grenfell bills to come

Bottomley attacks ‘uncivilised extortion’ of lease extension racket in Mortgage Solutions

Guardian reports misery of leasehold home owners trapped by John Lewis Partnership Pension Trust – and the Mail, Sun, Mirror and Lad Bible (any we have missed?)

Ground rent speculator Robert Steinhouse cuts and runs from Nova House, but who pays £4m Grenfell bill?

Telegraph reports rip-off leasehold sales packs

CRL insurers to explain ground rents set to zero

Mundy case in Court of Appeal showdown over valuation racket

‘Gargantuan’ Grenfell cladding bills from Astor and Tchenguiz on sites such as New Festival Quarter, The Times reveals today

Pathetic efforts by plc housebuilders to address ground rent scandal exposed on TV

Blenheim Centre flat owners to be spared £20,000-30,000 each on Grenfell cladding bill, Legal & General tells LKP

Leasehold houses have been sold for more than freehold ones, reports Telegraph

Telegraph reports case of Taylor Wimpey pensioner who has paid £38,000 for his freehold … and now won’t help him

LKP tells BBC that property managers can’t regulate themselves. It needs government

Ground rent speculator in leasehold homes laments losses in FT

BBC Radio Manchester wades into the leasehold houses scandal

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

MPs and LKP demand end to developers’ ‘stooge’ solicitors

Why are National Trust leaseholders in uproar over ‘modern ground rents’?

Now four in five homebuyers avoid new-builds … after ground rent scandals and shoddy build quality, that’s no surprise

Daily Mail attacks housebuilder bosses helping themselves to “mate’s-rates homes”

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

Countrywide to take away pensioner’s flower pots, says local newspaper

Daily Mail says blue chips are cashing in on ‘rip-off ground rents’

Countryside Properties plc deal to buy back freeholds turns spotlight on Taylor Wimpey, BBC told