Taylor Wimpey

LEASE chair Roger Southam in Private Eye (again)

Dear Pete Redfern (again) … Opaque leases, dubious ‘independent’ legal advice, no contact from Taylor Wimpey during its ‘review’, normal industry practice to stuff clients with leasehold houses (especially in North West)

Taylor Wimpey rejects responsibility to resale buyers facing doubling ground rents

Dear Gavin Barwell … our Taylor Wimpey leasehold house means my pension will be eroded

Dear Pete Redfern … Taylor Wimpey cheated us: what are you doing about it?

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

BBC R4 You and Yours exposes Taylor Wimpey buyers facing doubled ground rents to £500 before 10 years have passed

DCLG rejects complaint over LEASE chair Roger Southam, who pledged to ‘maximise ground rent opportunities’ for freeholders

Victoria Derbyshire told ‘we must end cheating speculators in leasehold housing’

Taylor Wimpey’s Speakman Gardens now erupts in protest

Help offered to leasehold house owners facing onerous ground rents

Cramlington: The wet dream of housebuilders, where everything is sold leasehold

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

Sapphire Fields comes clean over leasehold terms

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

Justin ‘Madders than hell’ about Taylor Wimpey / Bellway / Redrow ground rent scams in leasehold houses

Taylor Wimpey abandons the leasehold houses racket from January 1

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

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!)

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

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

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

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

Taylor Wimpey ground rent explanation ‘not true’, BBC is told

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

Taylor Wimpey CEO says doubling ground rent scandal under ‘review’. But Bottomley asks: ‘Have innocent homebuyers been shafted?’

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

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

Taylor Wimpey woes reported in Estates Gazette

Leasehold houses scandal widens as developers face MPs

Disgraceful leasehold houses reported in Guardian today