The Times

Homes England issued £236k secret fine to shared ownership retirement developer Platinum Skies

Three quarters of Churchill Retirement flats have lost money when resold, says The Times

Cladding leaseholder Arjun Batish, with no legal training, fights £200,000 fire safety bills – and wins

Tory Treasurer Lord Leigh and Priti Patel’s family accused of gaming the opportunities of leasehold

Retirement housebuilder Platinum Skies breached shared ownership rules with onerous ‘staircasing’ charges in the lease

RICS dreams up another feeble ‘code of practice’, as Lord Best’s statutory regulator of property managers falls victim to Covid

Has The Times report ended bnb raves at West India Quay – where landlord John Christodoulou and manager Rendall and Rittner failed?

Two-storey planning windfall means billions for freeholders, reports The Times

The Times saturation coverage of cladding scandal

Housing association Network Homes seeks to dump some of its £200m cladding costs on leaseholders

Wellcome Trust ‘wrong’ over exploiting the lease extension racket in its property portfolio, Bottomley tells The Times

Does Li Ka-shing own your Adriatic freehold, or Hutchison Whampoa, or billionaire Frank Sixt, or Astor? Only Long Harbour knows, and it’s not saying …

Families challenge Long Harbour for freeholds to Bellway leasehold houses, The Times reports

Retirement housebuilders will only reform when they are forced to do so, Lord Best tells property conference

The Times reports that families ‘lost £3 billion’ on resale of leasehold retirement flats, while developers and freehold speculators made millions

Fairview New Homes cancels sale as buyer wanted own solicitor and mortgage broker, says Times

Redrow: ‘shoddy workmanship and leasehold games’, but bumper profits from Help To Buy

Leaseholders pay up to 60% more for buildings insurance because of secret commissions, reports The Times

Freeholders’ ‘cowboy’ insurance commissions at leaseholders’ expense attacked in The Times

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

Why should Will Astor, Tchenguiz etc be paying to remove Grenfell cladding?

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

Times journalist defeats MB Freeholds and RMG over insurance dispute

Tchenguiz brothers fall out among themselves, says The Times

The Sun / The Times urge caution over leasehold purchases, while The Times / Guardian / Mail report Barratt paying out £2m at Citiscape

‘Gargantuan’ Grenfell cladding bills from Astor and Tchenguiz on sites such as New Festival Quarter, The Times reveals today

Why are National Trust leaseholders in uproar over ‘modern ground rents’?

‘Fright night’ for Taylor Wimpey as profits fall 24% over leasehold scandal, says Times

Scandal makes Ground Rents Income Fund plc fall £6m since March but … it has paid out 40.6% in three years

Housebuilders and stooge conveyancing solicitors face legal action, reports The Times

Bellway fears backlash over leasehold houses may eat into profits

Times reports inquiry into dodgy freeholders

Campaign against Residential Leasehold Exploitation meets lawyers over Peverel price-fixing scandal