CMA

CMA forces Countryside Properties plc to strike out doubling ground rents: it was selling them as late as May 2017!

Justin Madders MP asks why Redrow is selling freeholds at Ledsham Garden Village for £4,000 when they were £6,500. And what about those who paid too much?

National Leasehold Campaign email dump urges developers to settle up like Aviva and Persimmon have done with CMA

CMA forces Aviva to re-set rip-off doubling ground rents to what they were when homes were first bought …

Bovis Homes leaseholder in Bristol cannot sell as ground rents reviewed every five years

CMA kicks housebuilders: Countryside Properties and Taylor Wimpey ‘unfair contract terms’ over rip-off ground rents; Persimmon and Barratt ‘possible mis-selling’ of homes

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

Land Registry publishes new data on leasehold and fleecehold deals to help buyers and nudge Rightmove

An open letter to Robert Jenrick: the costs of delayed leasehold reform

Get commonhold done, London Assembly tells government

Consumers’ Association boasts sorting ground rent scandal and prompting CMA mis-selling investigation

Some in leasehold sector declined to co-operate with mis-selling investigation, says CMA

Government told to curb excessive ground rents and ‘disassociate’ from freeholders’ ‘Pledge to Leaseholders’ by Communities Select Committee

We are going to court if necessary to get ripped off leaseholders their money back, CMA tells BBCR4 MoneyBox

BBC R4 MoneyBox hears that a CMA mis-selling ruling could see leaseholders suing plc house builders. Hope so!

Will CMA investigation at last give cheated leaseholders the chance to sue plc house builders?

Better late than never for the CMA?

Competition and Markets Authority cannot investigate leasehold mis-selling because of Brexit, Brokenshire told

Leasehold mediation from commercial operators backed by government

Government to ‘take forward’ CMA leasehold report, but rejects making right to manage easier

Freeholders must not get away with ‘abusing’ leaseholders, says Bottomley in Budget debate

Packed Westminster meeting for leasehold reform

CMA: easier right to manage, re-tendering property management when residents choose, changes to major works rules … but no statutory regulation of block managers

Feeble talk from CMA at ARMA conference

AgeUK’s damning verdict on leasehold in CMA study

Woman has £165,000 flat forfeited over what began as £290 ground rent demand

LKP submission to CMA leasehold inquiry

£80 million a year in charges for conveyancing leasehold property, say lawyers

AgeUK echoes Campaign against Residential Leasehold Exploitation in demanding retirement housing reform

Competition and Markets Authority issues update on leasehold study

Engage Liverpool to hold public meeting with CMA

Daily Mail reports OFT inquiry into leasehold management

OFT leasehold management inquiry includes housing associations and council properties – and will report in September