Leasehold houses

After 60 consultations, Bottomley told ‘when parliamentary time allows’ for reforms promised three years ago

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

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

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

LKP trustees Katie Kendrick and Louie Burns tell Sky News and BBC R4 MoneyBox of ‘David and Goliath’ fight for freeholds

Taxpayers funding two leasehold houses a day in 2019 through Help To Buy … despite government saying THREE times they should be banned

ONS trumpets collapse in sales of new-build leasehold houses

Is this the best news for leasehold serfs since 1066? Quite possibly …

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

Leasehold first-time buyers trapped in leasehold homes with £800 ground rents, says BBC

Taxpayer subsidy via Help To Buy for leasehold houses to run until 2021, MPs told

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

No more Help To Buy payola to developers for leasehold houses

Pinsent Masons believes ban on ‘almost all’ new leasehold houses to have retrospective effect

Newcastle leasehold house owners stuff attempt by Barratt and Keepmoat to sell their freeholds

Daily Mail on leasehold houses and doubling ground rent scandals

“Leaseholders are being let down again by Taylor Wimpey” says MP

Taylor Wimpey ground rent “assistance” review -update

BBC R4 Today programme hears of ‘venal, greedy housebuilders’ playing the angles of leasehold

The Sun demands end to ground-rent rip-offs

Ground rent scandal risks becoming full-blown crisis as loans are refused on blighted homes

Ask Louie Burns: The leasehold houses scandal and what you can do about it

Sajid Javid pledges Help To Buy clampdown on ‘feudal’ leasehold terms

Leasehold houses expose ‘gulf between the letter and the spirit of the law’, say ministers

‘I don’t see why houses are sold leasehold,’ says prime minister. Is this the final nail?

Taylor Wimpey delays ground rent scandal ‘review’ to April, and hopes, like Mr Micawber, ‘something will turn up’

Gavin Barwell: ‘No excuse for leasehold houses or punitive ground rents and we will stamp them out’

ITV News says 45,000 leasehold houses sold in last five years. LKP claims £300-500m new home freeholds sold every year

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Ban revenue-generating leasehold houses, says Justin Madders MP. Redrow responds

Surge in new-build leasehold houses with £1.9 billion sold last year