William Waldorf Astor

Abacus Land sees its ground rents more than double to £711, thanks to RPI

CMA slaps down doubling ground rents of 15 punters who bought cheating freeholds from Countryside Properties plc

Hallmark Property Group seeks to put 44 flats worth £15m on top of a block with ACM cladding, waking watch, a B2 rating after EWS1 … and 75 utterly stressed out leaseholders

Few disagreements over banning ground rents, but last minute effort to keep them for retirement properties by Theresa Villiers and Sir Desmond Swayne

MPs fail to stop Robert Jenrick’s multi-billion pound planning hand-out to offshore freeholders

Report from Tchenguiz Family Trust, Long Harbour and Wallace Estates seeks to side-line leasehold reforms by fear-mongering over fire safety

Beware ‘MacDUFF’ Scottish consumer-friendly land laws, say freeholders in lobbying report to save their incomes

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

Has Jenrick just handed £1bn each to Astor, Tchenguiz and Wallace Estates with two-storey planning gift?

Rebecca Long-Bailey asks Will Astor why Long Harbour is demanding £10,000 to vary toxic doubling ground rent leases

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

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

Tory MP Stephen McPartland shames Long Harbour / Adriatic Land into dropping doubling ground rent leases

Government to ask Will Astor: who is the offshore freeholder at Heysmoor Heights (where ordinary families face £18k Grenfell cladding bills)?

Countryside Properties plc and Long Harbour to offer deal to end ground rent scam at Silver Point

Tchenguiz, Astor and offshore freeholders like Abacus Land 4 Limited should PUBLICLY meet over Grenfell cladding, MPs told

Fresh building is to pay £100,000 for fire marshals … with more Grenfell bills to come

Guardian reports ‘breakthrough’ deal from Countryside … Pressure on Taylor Wimpey also to offer freeholds

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

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

Who are Dublin-based Boardwalk Finance DAC and Jetty Finance DAC? Why do they own freeholds to people’s homes? And why are they based abroad?

Bellway offers young mother freehold for £3,750. But Adriatic Land demands £12,750 … then agrees to half the sum

Private Eye reports challenge to ‘scandal’ of lease extension values

Taylor Wimpey leaseholders ask: if the management company is ours, how do we oust Roger Southam?

Don’t sell off the Land Registry

Boughton Hall’s £950,000 freehold for sale and it pays out 22% a year …