Ground rent scandal

Savills and Allsops: Why ground rents from people’s home are just so ‘attractive’

Ground rent protestors stage ANOTHER demonstration against leasehold houses and charges

Daily Mail reports E&J Estates and wine-growing freeholder James Tuttiett

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

Guardian says: It’s time to send the feudal leasehold system crashing. Amen, to that

Guardian (again today) on freeholders’ endless fees

James Tuttiett’s tangled web of E&J freeholds scrutinised by the Guardian

First squawk from the (smaller) house builders

Patrick Collinson, of The Guardian, … on leasehold

Daily Mail on leasehold houses and doubling ground rent scandals

One article among many yesterday … from LKP

Government to ban leasehold houses and set ground rents ‘as low as’ zero

Englishman’s home isn’t a castle: it’s a revenue stream for an offshore company thanks to national housebuilders, Justin Madders tells the Commons

I had to spend £14,000 to change double ground rent to RPI at Ausden Place. But will I get compo from Taylor Wimpey?

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?

Marie Rimmer MP: how can a modest Taylor Wimpey leasehold house in St Helens pay out £185,850 to freehold investors over 60 years?

Stella Creasy MP backs leasehold reform … and Kirstie Allsopp is Tweeting to stop leasehold house sales

Buyers walk away from toxic Persimmon leasehold house

Ripped-off leaseholders bring protest to central Manchester

Taylor Wimpey gets round ‘right of first refusal’ to buy freehold by selling the block BEFORE more than half flats are sold

“Leaseholders are being let down again by Taylor Wimpey” says MP

Taylor Wimpey ground rent “assistance” review -update

BBC R4 You and Yours now turns to Countryside’s doubling ground rents

Housebuilders attempt to justify leasehold scams on ITV’s New Build Nightmares

Doubling ground rents owned by John Lewis Partnership Pension Trust … and managed by Tchenguiz

Ratner moment for UK housebuilders, says Chris Blythe, CEO of Chartered Institute of Building

Bellway Homes attempts to explain why leasehold houses are just fine. And it is self-interested rubbish …

Bellway is second developer to face public protest over leasehold cheating

Bloor Homes, which builds leasehold houses, gives £400,000 to the Conservative Party

Local media takes up the leasehold housing scandal

Vans are banned in Persimmon leases, so here is one outside your sales suite!

Bannister Preston and Cohen Filippini Solicitors ‘errors’ over ground rents, says BBC