Press

ConservativeHome website calls for radical reform of leasehold

Guardian reports ‘breakthrough’ deal from Countryside … Pressure on Taylor Wimpey also to offer freeholds

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

Should you buy a leasehold house now? Certainly not!

Murky investors hitching a ride on the English (and Welsh) homeowner, thanks to leasehold

‘Fright night’ for Taylor Wimpey as profits fall 24% over leasehold scandal, says Times

Daily Mail reports E&J Estates and wine-growing freeholder James Tuttiett

Spire View, in Pickering, shows a commonhold future with no leases at all, says Sunday Times

Daily Telegraph reports the new-build leasehold houses ban

Scandal makes Ground Rents Income Fund plc fall £6m since March but … it has paid out 40.6% in three years

Housebuilders and stooge conveyancing solicitors face legal action, reports The Times

Guardian says: It’s time to send the feudal leasehold system crashing. Amen, to that

Guardian (again today) on freeholders’ endless fees

James Tuttiett’s tangled web of E&J freeholds scrutinised by the Guardian

Patrick Collinson, of The Guardian, … on leasehold

Media storm over leasehold as government declares ban on leasehold houses and rip-off ground rents

Daily Mail on leasehold houses and doubling ground rent scandals

One article among many yesterday … from LKP

Signal Building leaseholders told to sell flats back to Southwark council

Who are Dublin-based Boardwalk Finance DAC and Jetty Finance DAC? Why do they own freeholds to people’s homes? And why are they based abroad?

BBC R4 You and Yours features £36,000 car crash leasehold defiance over Southwark major works scheme

Buyers walk away from toxic Persimmon leasehold house

Telegraph and Mail attack Nationwide for £54 million ground rent investments

Local media takes up the leasehold housing scandal

Guardian reports leasehold is the biggest problem for ‘homeowners’

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

Bannister Preston and Cohen Filippini Solicitors ‘errors’ over ground rents, says BBC

Election: Your chance to ask Theresa May about the leasehold scandals

Taylor Wimpey: Secretive £130m ‘compo’ is PR fluff and not good enough

Guardian’s Patrick Collinson welcomes Nationwide exploding the ground rent scandal

Police may need to investigate ground rent scandal, says Bottomley

Time to ‘get political about leasehold’, says the Financial Times

Guardian reports the Taylor Wimpey £130m offer to settle ground rent scandal