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

Category: Latest News, MHCLG, News, Parliament, Rooftop development, Sir Peter BottomleyTag: 2019 election, Harry Scoffin, James Brokenshire MP, Leasehold houses, Luke Hall, MHCLG, Peppercorn ground rents, Permitted development, Rooftop development, Sajid Javid, Sir Peter Bottomley

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

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Alan Copley Pennington, Alan Shaun Pennington, Alexander Stafford MP, Coppen (Estates) Limited, David Alan Senior, Dennis Plant, Ground rents, Harry Scoffin, Heather Plant, Leasehold houses, National Coal Board, Robert Jenrick, Shirley Pennington, Thurcroft

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

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: APPG, Covid-19, Ground rents, Harry Scoffin, James Brokenshire MP, Leasehold houses, Lord Greenhalgh, Sajid Javid, Sir Peter Bottomley

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

Category: House of Lords, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Baroness Grender, Brandon Lewis, Competition and Markets Authority, Ground rents, Harry Scoffin, Leasehold houses, Sajid Javid

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

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Ground rents, Harry Scoffin, Help To Buy, Leasehold houses, Robert Jenrick

Katie Kendrick Sky News Dec 19

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

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, PressTag: BBC R4 MoneyBox, Enfranchisement, Harry Scoffin, Katie Kendrick, Leasehold houses, Long Harbour, Louie Burns, Sky News, Sunday Times, The Sunday Times

Leasehold Houses

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

Category: Latest News, News, PressTag: Commonhold, Harry Scoffin, Help To Buy, Leasehold houses

ONS trumpets collapse in sales of new-build leasehold houses

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: Harry Scoffin, Land Registry, Leasehold houses, Office of National Statistics

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

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: James Brokenshire, Leasehold houses, MHCLG, Peppercorn ground rents, Sajid Javid

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

Category: Commonhold, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Press, Taylor WimpeyTag: Ground rents, Harry Scoffin, Help To Buy, Leasehold houses, Taylor Wimpey

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

Category: Latest News, News, PressTag: BBC, Commonhold, Harry Scoffin, Leasehold houses

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

Category: Communities Select Committee, Latest News, NewsTag: Harry Scoffin, Help To Buy, Leasehold houses, Theresa Pearce MP

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

Category: Latest News, National Leasehold Campaign, News, Persimmon, PressTag: Countryside Properties plc, Leasehold houses, National Association of Estate Agents, Persimmon, Redrow, Taylor Wimpey, The Times

No more Help To Buy payola to developers for leasehold houses

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: Help To Buy, James Brokenshire MP, Leasehold houses

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

Category: Latest News, News, PressTag: Leasehold houses, Pinsent Masons, Sajid Javid

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

Category: Latest News, National Leasehold Campaign, News, PressTag: Barratt, Keepmoat, Leasehold houses, New Tyne West Development Company, Newcastle Chronicle

Daily Mail on leasehold houses and doubling ground rent scandals

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Press, Taylor WimpeyTag: Daily Mail, Ground rent, Leasehold houses

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

Category: APPG December 14 2016, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, MHCLG, Taylor WimpeyTag: justin madders, Leasehold houses

Taylor Wimpey ground rent “assistance” review -update

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, Taylor WimpeyTag: Ground rent, Leasehold houses, Taylor Wimpey

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

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Press, Taylor WimpeyTag: BBC R4 Today, Leasehold houses, Sarah Montague, Sebastian O’Kelly

The Sun demands end to ground-rent rip-offs

Category: Bellway, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Press, Taylor WimpeyTag: Adrian Flook, Adriatic Land, Adriatic Land 2 (GR2) Limited, Daniel Jones, Joanne Darbyshire, Leasehold houses, Taylor Wimpey, The Sun

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

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, PressTag: CML, Council of Mortgage Lenders, HomeOwners Alliance, Leasehold houses, London and Country Mortgages, Paula Higgins

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

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, RedrowTag: ALEP, Leasehold houses, Leasehold Law, Leasehold Solutions, Louie Burns, Mari Knowles

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

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Help To Buy, Leasehold houses, Sajid Javid

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

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, Law Commission, News, ParliamentTag: DCLG, Gavin Barwell, Leasehold houses, Sajid Javid

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

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Leasehold houses, Theresa May

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

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Taylor WimpeyTag: Leasehold houses, Taylor Wimpey

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

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, LEASE, News, Taylor WimpeyTag: Gavin Barwell, Ground rents, Leasehold houses

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

Category: Ground rent scandal, HomeSlider, Latest News, News, Taylor WimpeyTag: Allegra Stratton, Bolton, Clair Scott, ITV News, Leasehold houses, Silver Birch Close, Taylor Wimpey

Fill in our survey to demonstrate the new-build ground rent scandal

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Taylor WimpeyTag: Leasehold houses, Taylor Wimpey

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

Category: Ground rent scandal, Justin Madders MP, Latest News, MPs' APPG on leasehold, News, Parliament, Redrow, Taylor WimpeyTag: Justin Madders MP, Leasehold houses, Redrow, Steve Morgan

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

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, PersimmonTag: Land Registry, Leasehold houses, Persimmon

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