Ground rents

When inflation linked ground rents are worse than ten-year doubling ones. That would be now …

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

Blunder forces Pier Management and debt collector JB Leitch to scrap £3,265 late ground rent bill (and forfeiture threat that accompanied it)

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

Lobbying alert: Theresa Villiers MP speaks up for ground rents, freehold owners and making sure marriage value still pays off for freehold investors

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

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

Make sure ground rents are dead and buried by improving the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill

Analysis of where next with the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill

House of Lords turns into the House of Serfs to attack the iniquity of leasehold ground rents

If government’s is tempted to dither over banning new ground rents, then this woman’s £1m a year for a small flat should clinch it …

Government announces ban on new ground rents now, THEN reform leasehold (which is what LKP recommended)

Do NOT buy a new property with ground rents

Cracks in the leasehold racket as Barratt London drops ground rents

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

Law Commission reports offer blueprint to demolish monetising landlordism in residential leasehold

Pensioners in former pit village fight ground rents rising from £10 a year to £1,100pa (after a demand for £2,450pa was rejected)

Telegraph says buy Ground Rents Income Fund plc, which has fallen 31.6% and lost court action over Beetham Tower

Jenrick tells Bottomley: Bill to set new ground rents at peppercorn coming ‘shortly’

RMG’s unexplained blunder increased pensioners’ ground rents by 59%, saying it was ‘in line with RPI’

John Christodoulou side-steps £4m ‘dou-dou’ at Beetham Tower, where leaseholders face bills of £40,000 each as the works begin

CMA’s devastating report on leasehold mis-selling echoes the Communities Select Committee, says Clive Betts MP

Lords hear how LKP warned government over ground rents and leasehold houses … in 2015

‘Peppercorn’ ground rents on Help To Buy properties … from next year

Rebecca Long-Bailey asks Will Astor why Long Harbour is demanding £10,000 to vary toxic doubling ground rent leases

‘Get leasehold done’? Boris Johnson’s Conservatives repeat 2017 pledges in manifesto, Harry Scoffin,

Don’t forget about 10 million voters, Bottomley tells the government … which omitted leasehold reform from the Queen’s speech

Esther McVey hints at new era of friendly cross-party consensus in Commons debate

John Healey blasts the government over lack of support for existing leaseholders as Tory backbench unease grows

Welsh policymakers back monetary ground rents while pondering ‘compulsory commonhold’

Political arms race commences as Labour announces £250 ground rents for existing leaseholders