Ground rents

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

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

‘The genie is out of the bottle,’ three lawyers solemnly explain to industry insiders in Estates Gazette

Taylor Wimpey’s Pete Redfern tells FT ‘we got it wrong on ground rents’

Exclusive: Commonhold can only work if ground rents are banned, said Ministry of Justice – in 2009!

Better late than never for the CMA?

Bob Blackman gets Theresa May to commit to ‘peppercorn’ ground rents … Let’s hope she knows what it means

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

Kit Malthouse to meet Persimmon over doubling ground rent at Picket Twenty site

APPG July 11: Retirement event fees ‘align interests of buyers and operators’, Michael Voges tells meeting

APPG July 11: The case for ground rents from McCarthy and Stone

APPG July 11: Retirement fees whether ground rents or event fees need to be for defined services not open-ended profits, says AgeUK

Taylor Wimpey’s snake oil ground rent review scheme makes toxic leases even worse: in my case, £25m worse!

Leaseholders urge Clive Betts MP to quiz housebuilders over ground rent review schemes

Please exempt retirement housebuilders from ground rent ban, pleads Sir Desmond Swayne

Guardian reports misery of leasehold home owners trapped by John Lewis Partnership Pension Trust – and the Mail, Sun, Mirror and Lad Bible (any we have missed?)

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

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

Nationwide bans mortgages on doubling ground rent properties