Taylor Wimpey

Have lenders refused mortgages on doubling ground rent properties?

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

DCLG rejects complaint over LEASE chair Roger Southam, who pledged to ‘maximise ground rent opportunities’ for freeholders

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’

The day the Leasehold Advisory Service was returned to leaseholders

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

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

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

Sapphire Fields comes clean over leasehold terms

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

Well, goodbye 2016

Commons leasehold debate. December 20 2016

We want to hear more from developers putting things right, says housing minister

Justin ‘Madders than hell’ about Taylor Wimpey / Bellway / Redrow ground rent scams in leasehold houses

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

Taylor Wimpey abandons the leasehold houses racket from January 1

70 attend APPG on leasehold after ground rent scandal grabs media attention

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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