Ground rent scandal

Does Steve Morgan deserve a demo on Redrow’s doorstep?

Leaseholders to stage ground rent demo at Redrow’s Ledsham Garden Village

Ground rent strike ‘a very real possibility,’ reports Daily Telegraph

Some of our freehold clients are offshore, admits Will Astor’s HomeGround

Here we go … Bellway porkies to talk up leasehold

ITV News covers the leasehold house scandal, and homeowners stage mass demo on March 18

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)

‘I don’t see why houses are sold leasehold,’ says prime minister. Is this the final nail?

Taylor Wimpey rejects responsibility to resale buyers facing doubling ground rents

Linden Homes calls in libel lawyers to silence customer who spoke to BBC

No van man here: Persimmon bans first-time buyer from parking his van at his leasehold house

STOP Selling new build leasehold houses demands Leader of the House of Commons

Justin Madders MP tells Chester Chronicle leasehold is ‘the PPI of housing sector’

Homebuyer calls for Persimmon boycott, and local MP Andrew Selous agrees with him!

‘No other law so blatantly allows the wealthiest to rip off those less so,’ says the Sunday Times of leasehold

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

Dear Ted Ayres … your company Bellway sold our family’s future

Dear Jeffrey Fairburn … Can I buy the freehold to a Persimmon house before you sell it to anonymous investors, please?

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’

Leasehold rip-offs are ‘legalised extortion’ by housebuilders, says Chartered Institute of Building

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

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

Gavin Barwell: ‘No excuse for leasehold houses or punitive ground rents and we will stamp them out’

LKP tells Sunday Times reader not to buy leasehold house (and there is no excuse for them)

Housebuilders ‘pimp their profits’ by selling freeholds, says Financial Times columnist

Taylor Wimpey’s Speakman Gardens now erupts in protest

Help offered to leasehold house owners facing onerous ground rents

Now Daily Telegraph wades into the leasehold house racket

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

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

Buyer pulls out of Persimmon £219,995 leasehold house purchase

Beech Developments sets off customer mutiny in Wales with grasping ground rents