McCarthy and Stone

Retirement housebuilders will only reform when they are forced to do so, Lord Best tells property conference

The Times reports that families ‘lost £3 billion’ on resale of leasehold retirement flats, while developers and freehold speculators made millions

LKP saves family £25,000 over shared equity McCarthy and Stone lease

Government will cave in to retirement house builders over ground rents, says Times

Huw Merriman calls for zero ground rents for retirement leasehold at prime minister’s questions

Did government cop-out on retirement ground rents stuff new thinking in the sector?

APPG July 11: Robust debate over retirement ground rents and event fees

APPG July 11: The case for ground rents from McCarthy and Stone

APPG July 11: Retirement fees whether ground rents or event fees need to be for defined services not open-ended profits, says AgeUK

Retirement housebuilders and speculators plead to be allowed ground rents in the Evening Standard

McCarthy and Stone and Churchill: are you blackmailing government over the ground rent ban and is your business model broken? Asks BBC R4 MoneyBox

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

Anti-ground rent trade body ARCO snubbed at retirement housing conference … (along with us, less surprisingly)

Advertising Standards Authority again rejects complaint that McCarthy and Stone is passing off leasehold tenancies as ‘property ownership’

Please exempt retirement housebuilders from ground rent ban, pleads Sir Desmond Swayne

McCarthy and Stone: Ground rents are not the future of retirement housing

Housebuilders shares crash over ground rents, with McCarthy and Stone down 10%

BetterRetirementHousing.com reports retirement resale disasters. On BBCR4 MoneyBox today

McCarthy and Stone says ground rents essential, but why sell freeholds to murky Adriatic Land?

Pensioners hammered with 88% rise in ground rents, says Better Retirement Housing

Our ground rents are fair, says McCarthy and Stone (even though they go up to £600 and are for no service whatsoever)

The Times: ‘Exit fees and poor resale values: the uncomfortable truth about retirement homes’

Campaign against Residential Leasehold Exploitation reveals abysmal retirement housing re-sale values

Housing and Care 21: We’ve made a mess at Ashfield, so manage the site yourselves

Will Lord Best’s proposals produce a healthy retirement housing market …

AgeUK echoes Campaign against Residential Leasehold Exploitation in demanding retirement housing reform

DCLG leasehold team issues raft of improvements

Will hedge-funders clean up in £500 million McCarthy and Stone float?

AgeUK would not get involved, Shelter has quit, Peverel has been expelled and Esther Rantzen is asking questions … the fiasco of the Campaign for Housing in Later Life

Shelter ‘dumps’ the Campaign for Housing in Later Life

Campaign for Housing in Later Life traced to … McCarthy and Stone HQ!

You and Yours features Campaign against Residential Leasehold Exploitation and OFT inquiry into leasehold management

McCarthy and Stone gives Peverel the push at 25 retirement sites