Ground rent scandal

APPG July 11: Robust debate over retirement ground rents and event fees

APPG July 11: Taylor Wimpey deserves no praise for its cheating RPI ground rent relief scheme, says leasehold house customer

Ground rents are so valid … to pay out £300m bonuses to Persimmon cronies

Retirement housebuilders and speculators plead to be allowed ground rents in the Evening Standard

McCarthy and Stone and Churchill: are you blackmailing government over the ground rent ban and is your business model broken? Asks BBC R4 MoneyBox

Taylor Wimpey’s snake oil ground rent review scheme makes toxic leases even worse: in my case, £25m worse!

Leaseholders urge Clive Betts MP to quiz housebuilders over ground rent review schemes

98% of rip-off lease sales broke consumer protection rules, says Conveyancing Association

Gleeson won’t sell leasehold houses, but freehold ones come with ‘fleasehold’ covenants, says Justin Madders

Housebuilders ground rent scandal compo schemes ‘must go further and faster’, says housing minister

£19,200 a year ground rents at Crawford Building are not our problem, says Redrow

Guardian reports misery of leasehold home owners trapped by John Lewis Partnership Pension Trust – and the Mail, Sun, Mirror and Lad Bible (any we have missed?)

Telegraph reports case of Taylor Wimpey pensioner who has paid £38,000 for his freehold … and now won’t help him

John Lewis Partnership Pensions Trust tells leaseholder it will ‘disinvest’ in doubling ground rents

E&J Capital Partners ‘compelled’ to sell freehold to Taylor Wimpey house to pensioner for £38,000 (plus £4,000 costs)

Pensioner paid £38,000 for Taylor Wimpey freehold to ground rent speculators E&J Capital Partners

Has Taylor Wimpey done just enough to avoid being successfully sued?

Taylor Wimpey and Long Harbour deal to defuse toxic lease scandal … after 11 months!

MailOnline forensically examines Taylor Wimpey couple stuck in leasehold house with £590pa to Adriatic Land

Ground Rents Income Fund plc offers help to leaseholders … in order to keep this grisly show on the road

LKP guidance for responding to the government consultation on tackling unfair practices in the leasehold market

Criticism over bumper pay bonuses for Persimmon and Berkeley bosses

Now Bovis says ‘Our houses are freehold’. (Gleeson’s always were …)

Commons Library’s excellent resume of leasehold problems will give MPs plenty of ideas for reform

Furious Persimmon leasehold house owners at Harrow View West demand their freeholds

E&J Capital Partners in full retreat over rapacious ground rent terms

Countryside Properties plc cracks over ground rents scandal …

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

Should you buy a leasehold house now? Certainly not!

Protestors gather outside ANOTHER housebuilder: Galliford Try

Ground Rents Income Fund plc says it wants to be a ‘socially responsible landlord’. How about: socially responsible ex-landlord?

Murky investors hitching a ride on the English (and Welsh) homeowner, thanks to leasehold

Buyers would have ignored ground rent clauses even if we had told them, says conveyancer Rob Hailstone