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18% of leasehold houses paid for with Help To Buy, says FT in devastating attack

‘Fleecehold’ estate management contracts are the latest fiddle from taxpayer-subsidised house builders

Pull the other one, Vincent! Leasehold reform hasn’t stuffed Fairhold. It was downgraded in 2015 …

For God’s sake! Now it emerges £8.3 billion Help To Buy scheme – that turned house builder executives into multi-millionaires – is not available on commonhold properties!

The Economist notes LKP’s agenda to reform leasehold

Respond NOW to government consultation to reform leasehold

Communities Select Committee lifts the lid on the residential freehold racket

Questions for MPs to ask Taylor Wimpey and Long Harbour today …

Even if you only respond to one question, take part in the Law Commission consultation!

Brokenshire to meet house builders and freehold investors … but no leaseholders

Clive Fenton stands down as CEO of McCarthy and Stone as profits slump

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

Leaseholders urge Clive Betts MP to quiz housebuilders over ground rent review schemes

Complain to Advertising Standards Authority over ‘virtual freehold’ and ‘home ownership’ when the offer is leasehold tenancy

Chronology 2017

Labour deputy Tom Watson joins APPG on leasehold reform – but select committee STILL won’t call in the housebuilders

‘Fleecehold’ petition launched to stop housebuilders creating YET ANOTHER revenue stream from their customers

FT looks at financial consequence to freehold speculators of #leaseholdscandal

Dominic Raab: freeze doubling ground rents and get housebuilders to offer proper redress, says National Leasehold Campaign

Will Astor ‘tried to nobble reform of ground rents’, Daily Mail claims

Leasehold houses have been sold for more than freehold ones, reports Telegraph

Demo at First-Time Buyers show warns of developers’ leasehold rip-offs

The Property Ombudsman fines agent for selling house as ‘virtually freehold’. (Don’t worry ARMA members: it was only £200)

Now Bovis says ‘Our houses are freehold’. (Gleeson’s always were …)

Business Insider reports how easily developers get round ‘right of first refusal’

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

Should you buy a leasehold house now? Certainly not!

Protestors gather outside ANOTHER housebuilder: Galliford Try

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

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

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

BBC R4 You and Yours reports MPs saying leasehold houses are a ‘national con’

Leasehold houses are the ‘spivvy idea of a financial director to make more money on wet Thursday afternoon’, says MP