Persimmon

No van man here: Persimmon bans first-time buyer from parking his van at his leasehold house

Homebuyer calls for Persimmon boycott, and local MP Andrew Selous agrees with him!

Dear Jeffrey Fairburn … Can I buy the freehold to a Persimmon house before you sell it to anonymous investors, please?

LKP tells Sunday Times reader not to buy leasehold house (and there is no excuse for them)

Buyer pulls out of Persimmon £219,995 leasehold house purchase

Taylor Wimpey CEO to meet MPs over ‘cancer’ of doubling ground rents (which were deterring astute buyers in 2007!)

Guardian sticks with new-build ground rent scandal, while LKP advises Persimmon home buyers to walk away

Last year: £64.8bn leasehold properties sold. £13.7bn was new-build. Leasehold house numbers double. Developers make £300-500 million a year from ground rent sales

First-time buyers facing £8,000 ground rents stuffed by plc housebuilders

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

Leasehold houses scandal widens as developers face MPs

Disgraceful leasehold houses reported in Guardian today

Average service charges are £1,863, but rise to £2,777 for new builds

Telegraph reports that leasehold newbuild flats are on the rise

Leasehold ‘a lucrative way to stop people from buying their own home outright’ – Daily Mail

Outrageous: Persimmon builds leasehold houses – for the never ending income stream