Persimmon

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

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

Influential Tory MP Neil O’Brien calls developers and managing agents ‘the timeshare salesmen and dodgy wheel-clampers of our generation’

‘You weren’t mis-sold your leasehold house and I am keeping my £45m bonus’, is the message of Persimmon CEO to Bluebell Meadow

South Somerset council enters the ‘fleecehold’ racket

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

Mass email dump: leasehold home owners demand their freeholds after Persimmon caves into court action

18% of leasehold houses paid for with Help To Buy, says FT in devastating attack

Help To Buy cheat Persimmon racks up £1bn profits – and spread the plague of leasehold houses around the country

Leasehold house owners thank Brokenshire after Persimmon sells freehold to leasehold house for less than £3,750

The Economist notes LKP’s agenda to reform leasehold

Communities Select Committee lifts the lid on the residential freehold racket

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

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

Ground rents are so valid … to pay out £300m bonuses to Persimmon cronies

Labour deputy Tom Watson joins APPG on leasehold reform – but select committee STILL won’t call in the housebuilders

‘Fleecehold’ petition launched to stop housebuilders creating YET ANOTHER revenue stream from their customers

Mail and Telegraph pile on the misery for Persimmon’s Jeffrey Fairburn (Good, says LKP, he deserves it)

Persimmon sold leasehold houses for £50,000 more than same-size freehold houses at Harrow View West

Demo at First-Time Buyers show warns of developers’ leasehold rip-offs

Criticism over bumper pay bonuses for Persimmon and Berkeley bosses

Now Bovis says ‘Our houses are freehold’. (Gleeson’s always were …)

Business Insider reports how easily developers get round ‘right of first refusal’

Furious Persimmon leasehold house owners at Harrow View West demand their freeholds

The Sun attacks ‘fatcat’ housebuilders with inflated fortunes thanks to Help To Buy

Buyers walk away from toxic Persimmon leasehold house

Jeffrey Fairburn, Persimmon CEO, drops ‘virtual freehold’ when selling leasehold

Daily Mail turns up the heat on ‘fat cat’ housebuilder bosses

Vans are banned in Persimmon leases, so here is one outside your sales suite!

MP urges Commons to condemn developers selling leasehold houses with onerous ground rents. And names Taylor Wimpey, Persimmon, Bellway and Adriatic Land …

Leasehold houses are the ‘spivvy idea of a financial director to make more money on wet Thursday afternoon’, says MP