Taylor Wimpey

Taylor Wimpey’s Pete Redfern tells FT ‘we got it wrong on ground rents’

Taylor Wimpey recommended conveyancing solicitors go bust after one is jailed for stealing £280,000

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

Taylor Wimpey passed management at Surbiton Plaza II to commercial operator ‘to save customers the administrative burden’ (of being in charge of their own money)

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

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

Should you buy a leasehold house now? Certainly not!

‘Fright night’ for Taylor Wimpey as profits fall 24% over leasehold scandal, says Times

The sector fights back … er, deploying LEASE chair Roger Southam

Housebuilders and stooge conveyancing solicitors face legal action, reports The Times

First squawk from the (smaller) house builders

Patrick Collinson, of The Guardian, … on leasehold

Media storm over leasehold as government declares ban on leasehold houses and rip-off ground rents

Daily Mail on leasehold houses and doubling ground rent scandals

One article among many yesterday … from LKP

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?

Mortgage lenders and conveyancers lay bare the rot of leasehold to MPs

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

Ripped-off leaseholders bring protest to central Manchester

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

Taylor Wimpey ground rent “assistance” review -update

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

Countryside Properties is selling London flats at The Mount, Mill Hill, with £300pa doubling ground rents

Guardian reports leasehold is the biggest problem for ‘homeowners’

Daily Mail turns up the heat on ‘fat cat’ housebuilder bosses

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

Election: Your chance to ask Theresa May about the leasehold scandals

Taylor Wimpey: Secretive £130m ‘compo’ is PR fluff and not good enough

Guardian’s Patrick Collinson welcomes Nationwide exploding the ground rent scandal