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Developer recommended solicitors could face £500m bill, says Daily Mail

Leasehold needs to be reformed, BBC Money Box Live is told

Not the job of LEASE to warn ministers of leasehold houses scandal, Roger Southam tells BBC

BBC R4 Today programme hears of ‘venal, greedy housebuilders’ playing the angles of leasehold

The Sun demands end to ground-rent rip-offs

Ground rent scandal risks becoming full-blown crisis as loans are refused on blighted homes

Leasehold houses to be outlawed, says the Daily Mail

‘Cameron’s brother-in-law Will Astor and the toxic leasehold scandal’, Daily Mail

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

Daily Mail ‘reveals’ Will Astor’s ‘links to leasehold rip-offs’

Bottomley tells BBC R4: Clear out sector stooges from LEASE. Stop barring LKP trustees. Bring justice quickly to leasehold house owners.

Ground rent strike ‘a very real possibility,’ reports Daily Telegraph

Oxford leaseholders win first round against £60,000 major works bills

Southwark council leaseholders see major works bill slashed from £17,000 to £8,000

LEASE chair Roger Southam in Private Eye (again)

Justin Madders MP tells Chester Chronicle leasehold is ‘the PPI of housing sector’

Homebuyer calls for Persimmon boycott, and local MP Andrew Selous agrees with him!

‘No other law so blatantly allows the wealthiest to rip off those less so,’ says the Sunday Times of leasehold

Victoria Derbyshire told ‘we must end cheating speculators in leasehold housing’

Affluent London leaseholders are just as likely to be kicked around as poor ones, finds the Sunday Times

Leasehold injustices on BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire show

LKP tells Sunday Times reader not to buy leasehold house (and there is no excuse for them)

Housebuilders ‘pimp their profits’ by selling freeholds, says Financial Times columnist

Now Daily Telegraph wades into the leasehold house racket

Commons leasehold debate. December 20 2016

Labour to cap ‘legalised extortion’ of ground rents and end leasehold houses … Opposition and government now compete to reform leasehold

Guardian sticks with new-build ground rent scandal, while LKP advises Persimmon home buyers to walk away

Sunday Times reports Taylor Wimpey ground rent scandal, as executives meet leaseholders

Taylor Wimpey ground rent explanation ‘not true’, BBC is told

Sunday Telegraph says ‘New homes, yes, but not leasehold’

‘New-build ground rent scandal could spark legal battles,’ says Guardian

LKP poised to mine information on leasehold, after being admitted to Open Data Institute

Pete Redfern: Stop pontificating about the housing crisis and sort out the ground rent scandal of Taylor Wimpey’s own making