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

Pensioner paid £38,000 for Taylor Wimpey freehold to ground rent speculators E&J Capital Partners

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

ARMA regulator Sally Keeble quit ‘after being blocked’ from ruling on Warwick Estates lift shaft fatality

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

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

Patrick Collinson, of The Guardian, … on leasehold

Englishman’s home isn’t a castle: it’s a revenue stream for an offshore company thanks to national housebuilders, Justin Madders tells the Commons

Doubling ground rents owned by John Lewis Partnership Pension Trust … and managed by Tchenguiz

Nationwide bans mortgages on doubling ground rent properties

Leasehold houses and the sales process were ‘absolutely disgusting’, MPs told. But have laws been broken?

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

‘If I fail to offend anyone, I will do it next time,’ Bottomley tells appalled leasehold professionals at LEASE annual conference

Viscount Astor hears the lamentations of leaseholders

ITV News says 45,000 leasehold houses sold in last five years. LKP claims £300-500m new home freeholds sold every year

Billionaire John Christodoulou and his lawyer David Marsden accused of ‘little short of harassment’ of court-appointed managing agent

Martin Paine ‘is a crook who is turning sleaze in leases into an art form’, MPs told

Benjamin Mire ‘not fit to go on being a member of RICS’

Philip Rainey QC: Are we creating homes or an investment asset class?

Last year: £64.8bn leasehold properties sold. £13.7bn was new-build. Leasehold house numbers double. Developers make £300-500 million a year from ground rent sales

Leasehold sales are bedevilled with ‘extortionate’ charges and game-playing, says the Conveyancing Association

Leasehold is a feudal, wasting asset with opportunities for exploitation, says the Financial Times in a devastating article

Property tribunal upholds lease extension ‘scandal’ that pays millions to freeholders

Taylor Wimpey leaseholders ask: if the management company is ours, how do we oust Roger Southam?

Affluent freehold-owning couple’s lease terms bring ruin to families who bought flats that are virtually worthless

LKP is DELUGED by leaseholders caught out in local authority major works schemes …

It’s unfair, say Chelsea Harbour leaseholders lumbered with £300,000 legal costs after neighbours fail at tribunal

Right to manage promoter calls it a day at Quadrangle House

Leasehold ‘a lucrative way to stop people from buying their own home outright’ – Daily Mail

Dudley Joiner: Not relevant that I was disqualified from being a company director for 7 years

Freehold sale withdrawn at Discovery Docklands East – once the residents were all set to buy

Peverel / FirstPort pays back £39,377 wrongly taken from Hillside Court, but the pensioners say another £3,498 is missing

Countrywide ‘ripping off’ leaseholders, MP tells Commons. And it is given the boot by Bovis Homes