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Housing Minister Rachel Maclean pledges to reform LEASE, calls out Churchill Retirement Living, pledges to end the ‘assured tenancy trap’ and reiterates commitments to reform leasehold

Property rip-off ‘Whack-a-mole’: Now it’s your chance to tell CMA about fleecehold

More than 20,000 leaseholders benefit from CMA action over ground rent mis-selling

Barratt off the hook from CMA over mis-selling leasehold homes

Tory Treasurer Lord Leigh and Priti Patel’s family accused of gaming the opportunities of leasehold

Note to Mr Gove: FSA was warning of ‘reputational risk’ in not cracking down on secret leasehold insurance commissions 17 years ago!

Michael Gove: Is this the robust inquiry into leasehold insurance fiddles that you wanted from the FCA?

Insurance insiders call for an end to secretive leasehold insurance commissions following Canary Riverside ruling

CMA slaps down doubling ground rents of 15 punters who bought cheating freeholds from Countryside Properties plc

John Christodoulou fails to dump £355,000 gym debt onto the Canary Riverside leaseholders. Insurance commissions to be disclosed. And judge criticises his ‘extremely unattractive’ approach to tribunal

Gove calls on complacent FCA to stop the leasehold insurance rip-offs, and urges the CMA to get stuck in as well

Reverse ferret: Taylor Wimpey NOW agrees to sort out re-sale buyers of its rip-off ground rent leasehold properties

CMA forces Taylor Wimpey to sort out rip-off ten-year doubling ground rents

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