Countryside Properties plc

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

Financial Conduct Authority under pressure to force open secretive insurance commissions, so leaseholders can see what they are paying for

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

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

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

LKP vindicated by devastating CMA report into mis-selling of leasehold homes

The new leaseholders’ hero … Lloyd George

Countryside Properties plc tells leaseholders wanting their freeholds: We’ve signed the pledge (and we’ve flogged them on, anyway) …

Scale of leasehold house scandal revealed in mass email dump to house builder bosses

Countryside Properties plc shafted buyer by selling his freehold to Tuscola Ltd in the British Virgin Islands, says Liz McInnes MP

Time to ban Redrow in Liverpool, asks leasehold victim Rosie Cooper MP – who also names stooge solicitors Bannister Preston

Communities Select Committee lifts the lid on the residential freehold racket

Brokenshire to meet house builders and freehold investors … but no leaseholders

Long Harbour lobby MP Kate Osamor bars leasehold activist from Twitter feed

Is your leasehold home – from Taylor Wimpey, Persimmon etc – a life sentence? Ask the estate agents who can’t sell them

Countryside Properties plc and Long Harbour to offer deal to end ground rent scam at Silver Point

Barclays turns down mortgage on flat where ground rent doubles every 25 years

Pathetic efforts by plc housebuilders to address ground rent scandal exposed on TV

Labour MP Helen Hayes ‘disappointed’ by Sajid Javid’s response on leasehold scandal

Taylor Wimpey and Long Harbour deal to defuse toxic lease scandal … after 11 months!

MPs and LKP demand end to developers’ ‘stooge’ solicitors

Countryside Properties plc deal to buy back freeholds turns spotlight on Taylor Wimpey, BBC told

Guardian reports ‘breakthrough’ deal from Countryside … Pressure on Taylor Wimpey also to offer freeholds

Countryside Properties plc cracks over ground rents scandal …

‘Fright night’ for Taylor Wimpey as profits fall 24% over leasehold scandal, says Times

Buyers would have ignored ground rent clauses even if we had told them, says conveyancer Rob Hailstone

Savills and Allsops: Why ground rents from people’s home are just so ‘attractive’

First squawk from the (smaller) house builders

Mortgage lenders and conveyancers lay bare the rot of leasehold to MPs

BBC R4 You and Yours now turns to Countryside’s doubling ground rents

Countryside Properties is selling London flats at The Mount, Mill Hill, with £300pa doubling ground rents