Bellway

Settle up with doubling ground rent victims or see you in court next year, CMA tells house builders

‘Years’ to sign off Peabody flats as safe, BBC is told. That means no one is able to sell up and leave …

19kg cylinder of propane gas found in roof of fire-stricken Samuel Garside House, says report

Bellway to pay to remove wood from Barking Riverside fire site

Government is hiding behind Law Commission and CMA, says Tory MP Bob Blackman

Communities Select Committee lifts the lid on the residential freehold racket

Brokenshire wrongly says freeholders have paid for Grenfell cladding removal

Bellway and Peabody cave in over Grenfell cladding costs at New Festival Quarter

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

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

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

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?

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

Bellway is second developer to face public protest over leasehold cheating

MP urges Commons to condemn developers selling leasehold houses with onerous ground rents. And names Taylor Wimpey, Persimmon, Bellway and Adriatic Land …

Bellway fears backlash over leasehold houses may eat into profits

Here we go … Bellway porkies to talk up leasehold

Dear Ted Ayres … your company Bellway sold our family’s future

Bellway sells Baltic Avenue freehold to Adriatic Land 6 as leaseholders mobilise

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

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

Bellway offers young mother freehold for £3,750. But Adriatic Land demands £12,750 … then agrees to half the sum

Buyer pulls out of Persimmon £219,995 leasehold house purchase

Shaken ground rent whistleblower pulls out of BBC radio interview after lawyer’s letter

Justin ‘Madders than hell’ about Taylor Wimpey / Bellway / Redrow ground rent scams in leasehold houses

Ground rent scam ‘creates new asset class,’ says Ruth Cadbury

Taylor Wimpey CEO to meet MPs over ‘cancer’ of doubling ground rents (which were deterring astute buyers in 2007!)

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

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