Sir Peter Bottomley

The day the Leasehold Advisory Service was returned to leaseholders

Shaken ground rent whistleblower pulls out of BBC radio interview after lawyer’s letter

Commons leasehold debate. December 20 2016

‘Reverse the Mundy case on lease valuations by statute if necessary’

70 attend APPG on leasehold after ground rent scandal grabs media attention

Commons to debate leasehold reform next Tuesday. And Bottomley intends to name leasehold game-players …

Taylor Wimpey more greedy than the ground rent ‘Mr Smallweeds’ (and so are other plc housebuilders)

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

Sajid Javid vows to ‘stamp out abuses’ over leasehold that make homes unsellable

Sunday Times reports Taylor Wimpey ground rent scandal, as executives meet leaseholders

End lease extension ‘injustice’, veteran MP urges Commons

‘New-build ground rent scandal could spark legal battles,’ says Guardian

Telegraph reports ‘marketing cobblers’ of 999-year ‘virtual freeholds’ with lethal ground rents

LKP poised to mine information on leasehold, after being admitted to Open Data Institute

Bottomley tells Taylor Wimpey to explain ‘sharp practice’ ground rents – and asks for names of directors who approved them

Pete Redfern: Stop pontificating about the housing crisis and sort out the ground rent scandal of Taylor Wimpey’s own making

Campaign against Residential Leasehold Exploitation and AgeUK reject Law Commission draft on exit fees

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

Guardian reports the Blythe Court ground rent scandal

All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and commonhold established today

Law Commission: ‘We want to hear about problems in leasehold law’

For first time in 14 years, Westminster hears more of commonhold

ARMA rules against FirstPort Retirement …

LKP meets Roger Southam and Taylor Wimpey over embedded management companies

Martin Paine, embedded management companies, LKP … all raised in Queen’s speech debate

Southam surrenders control of Mulberry Mews

Retirement housebuilder hands £7m of freeholds to the leaseholders

20 MPs and Lords sign up for All-Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and commonhold

BBC R4’s You & Yours feature Blythe Court … and now the freeholder wants ‘more ethical approach to charges’

Barnard Marcus withdraws Blythe Court flat from auction

Realities of leasehold spelled out during the Housing Bill

Housing Bill omits necessary ‘changes to leasehold and commonhold’

Packed LKP meeting at Westminster for leasehold reform