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Clive Fenton stands down as CEO of McCarthy and Stone as profits slump

Taylor Wimpey’s snake oil ground rent review scheme makes toxic leases even worse: in my case, £25m worse!

Leaseholders urge Clive Betts MP to quiz housebuilders over ground rent review schemes

Complain to Advertising Standards Authority over ‘virtual freehold’ and ‘home ownership’ when the offer is leasehold tenancy

Chronology 2017

Labour deputy Tom Watson joins APPG on leasehold reform – but select committee STILL won’t call in the housebuilders

‘Fleecehold’ petition launched to stop housebuilders creating YET ANOTHER revenue stream from their customers

FT looks at financial consequence to freehold speculators of #leaseholdscandal

Dominic Raab: freeze doubling ground rents and get housebuilders to offer proper redress, says National Leasehold Campaign

Will Astor ‘tried to nobble reform of ground rents’, Daily Mail claims

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

Demo at First-Time Buyers show warns of developers’ leasehold rip-offs

The Property Ombudsman fines agent for selling house as ‘virtually freehold’. (Don’t worry ARMA members: it was only £200)

Now Bovis says ‘Our houses are freehold’. (Gleeson’s always were …)

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

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

Should you buy a leasehold house now? Certainly not!

Protestors gather outside ANOTHER housebuilder: Galliford Try

The sector fights back … er, deploying LEASE chair Roger Southam

Bellway Homes attempts to explain why leasehold houses are just fine. And it is self-interested rubbish …

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

BBC R4 You and Yours reports MPs saying leasehold houses are a ‘national con’

Leasehold houses are the ‘spivvy idea of a financial director to make more money on wet Thursday afternoon’, says MP

Sajid Javid does not like regulation. What about micro management like Help To Buy?

Does Steve Morgan deserve a demo on Redrow’s doorstep?

Leaseholders to stage ground rent demo at Redrow’s Ledsham Garden Village

STOP Selling new build leasehold houses demands Leader of the House of Commons

Banker leaseholders spend £50,000 to reform the paw law

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

Now Daily Telegraph wades into the leasehold house racket

Cramlington: The wet dream of housebuilders, where everything is sold leasehold

Sapphire Fields comes clean over leasehold terms

Commons leasehold debate. December 20 2016