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Ground rent scandal

Viscount Astor hears the lamentations of leaseholders

Category: APPG December 14 2016, Ground rent scandal, News, William Waldorf AstorTag: Adriatic Land, Frank Sixt, ground rents, JimFitzpatrick, Long Harbour, Tarbert estate, Viscount Astor, Will Astor

ITV News says 45,000 leasehold houses sold in last five years. LKP claims £300-500m new home freeholds sold every year

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Slider2, Taylor WimpeyTag: Allegra Stratton, Bolton, Clair Scott, ITV News, leasehold houses, Silver Birch Close, Taylor Wimpey

Sapphire Fields comes clean over leasehold terms

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Persimmon, Taylor WimpeyTag: Roger Southam, Sapphire Fields, Taylor Wimpey

Shaken ground rent whistleblower pulls out of BBC radio interview after lawyer’s letter

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Taylor WimpeyTag: Bannister Preston Solicitors, Bellway, Berrymans Lace Mawer, Clair Scott, David Carter Hughes, Katie Kendrick, Sajid Javid, Sir Peter Bottomley, Taylor Wimpey

Ground rent scam ‘creates new asset class,’ says Ruth Cadbury

Category: Bellway, Commons Debate 20/12/16, Ground rent scandal, Parliament, Taylor WimpeyTag: Bellway, Ruth Cadbury MP

Taylor Wimpey abandons the leasehold houses racket from January 1

Category: APPG, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, MPs' APPG on leasehold, News, Taylor WimpeyTag: APPG, Bob Bessell, Louie Burns, Patrick Collinson, Philip Rainey QC, Roger Southam, Taylor Wimpey

Commons debate leasehold. Tuesday December 20

Category: APPG December 14 2016, Ground rent scandal, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Latest News, MPs' APPG on leasehold, News, Parliament

Taylor Wimpey more greedy than the ground rent ‘Mr Smallweeds’ (and so are other plc housebuilders)

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Parliament, Taylor WimpeyTag: ground rents, Groundrentsforsale, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Mr Smallweed, Pete Redfern, Sir Peter Bottomley, Taylor Wimpey, Wates

Taylor Wimpey CEO to meet MPs over ‘cancer’ of doubling ground rents (which were deterring astute buyers in 2007!)

Category: Bellway, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Parliament, Persimmon, Sir Peter Bottomley, Taylor WimpeyTag: Bellway, Persimmon, Redrow, Sir Peter Bottomley, Taylor Wimpey

Labour to cap ‘legalised extortion’ of ground rents and end leasehold houses … Opposition and government now compete to reform leasehold

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Parliament, PressTag: Jim Fitzpatrick MP, John Healey MP, Labour, Ruth Cadbury MP

Fill in our survey to demonstrate the new-build ground rent scandal

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Taylor WimpeyTag: leasehold houses, Taylor Wimpey

Guardian sticks with new-build ground rent scandal, while LKP advises Persimmon home buyers to walk away

Category: Bellway, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Parliament, Persimmon, Press, Taylor WimpeyTag: Bellway, Jeffrey Fairburn, Neil Francis, Patrick Collinson, Persimmon, Taylor Wimpey, The Guardian

Sajid Javid vows to ‘stamp out abuses’ over leasehold that make homes unsellable

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Alistair Burt, Gavin Barwell, Sajid Javid, Sir Peter Bottomley

Sunday Times reports Taylor Wimpey ground rent scandal, as executives meet leaseholders

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Press, Taylor WimpeyTag: APPG, Berkeley, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Sir Peter Bottomley, Taylor Wimpey, The Sunday Times

Last year: £64.8bn leasehold properties sold. £13.7bn was new-build. Leasehold house numbers double. Developers make £300-500 million a year from ground rent sales

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Redrow, Slider2, Taylor WimpeyTag: Bellway, Conveyancing Association, Crest Nicholson, Land Registry, Persimmon, Redrow, Taylor Wimpey

Taylor Wimpey ground rent explanation ‘not true’, BBC is told

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Press, Taylor WimpeyTag: BBC, Clair Scott, E & J Capital Partners, Leasehold Solutions, Louie Burns, Taylor Wimpey, You and Yours

Ban revenue-generating leasehold houses, says Justin Madders MP. Redrow responds

Category: Ground rent scandal, Justin Madders MP, Latest News, MPs' APPG on leasehold, News, Parliament, Redrow, Taylor WimpeyTag: Justin Madders MP, leasehold houses, Redrow, Steve Morgan

Sunday Telegraph says ‘New homes, yes, but not leasehold’

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Persimmon, PressTag: Leasehold Solutions, Liz Hodgkinson, Louie Burns, The Sunday Telegraph

‘New-build ground rent scandal could spark legal battles,’ says Guardian

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Press, Taylor WimpeyTag: Patrick Collinson, Pete Redfern, Sir Peter Bottomley, Taylor Wimpey, The Guardian

Taylor Wimpey CEO says doubling ground rent scandal under ‘review’. But Bottomley asks: ‘Have innocent homebuyers been shafted?’

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, MPs' APPG on leasehold, News, Parliament, Taylor WimpeyTag: APPG, Pete Redfern, Silver Birch Close, Taylor Wimpey

Telegraph reports ‘marketing cobblers’ of 999-year ‘virtual freeholds’ with lethal ground rents

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: APPG, Louie Burns, Richard Dyson, Sebastian O’Kelly, Sir Peter Bottomley, The Daily Telegraph

Bottomley tells Taylor Wimpey to explain ‘sharp practice’ ground rents – and asks for names of directors who approved them

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, MPs' APPG on leasehold, News, Parliament, Sir Peter Bottomley, Taylor WimpeyTag: APPG, Bannister Preston, Jim Fitzpatrick, Justin Madders MP, Sir Peter Bottomley, Taylor Wimpey

Pete Redfern: Stop pontificating about the housing crisis and sort out the ground rent scandal of Taylor Wimpey’s own making

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, MPs' APPG on leasehold, News, Press, Taylor WimpeyTag: APPG, Kate Barker, Pete Redfern, Sir Peter Bottomley, Taylor Wimpey

Philip Rainey QC: Reform of the law is a duty (and for landlord and tenant law it is overdue)

Category: ARMA, Commonhold, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Philip Rainey QCTag: ARMA, Commonhold, Philip Rainey QC, Right of first refusal, Scotland, strata, Tanfield Chambers, Wales

ARMA conference ‘worried’ that developers are exploiting new home owners

Category: ARMA, ARMA-Q, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Philip Rainey QC, Taylor WimpeyTag: Anna Bailey, Braemar Estates, Elim Court, Jim Fitzpatrick, Justin Bates, Nigel Glen, Philip Rainey QC, Robert Dean, Sally Keeble

First-time buyers facing £8,000 ground rents stuffed by plc housebuilders

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Parliament, Persimmon, Taylor WimpeyTag: Bovis Homes, Persimmon, Silver Birch Close, Sir Peter Bottomley, Taylor Wimpey

Taylor Wimpey woes reported in Estates Gazette

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Press, Taylor WimpeyTag: Peter Bill, Taylor Wimpey

Surge in new-build leasehold houses with £1.9 billion sold last year

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, PersimmonTag: Land Registry, leasehold houses, Persimmon

Leasehold houses scandal widens as developers face MPs

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Persimmon, Taylor WimpeyTag: Agusta Park, Aveley, Ellesmere Port, Jeffrey Fairburn, Justin Madders MP, Persimmon, Pete Redfern, Taylor Wimpey

Disgraceful leasehold houses reported in Guardian today

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Persimmon, Press, Taylor WimpeyTag: Persimmon, Taylor Wimpey

Would you choose a good night out, or 500 freehold acres of Mayfair and Belgravia?

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, Lease Extension, News, PressTag: Financial Times, Grosvenor, Mary Davies

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