{"id":159192,"date":"2020-09-04T15:46:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T13:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/09\/04\/competition-watchdog-investigates-major-housebuilders-over-leaseholds\/"},"modified":"2020-09-04T15:46:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T13:46:49","slug":"competition-watchdog-investigates-major-housebuilders-over-leaseholds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=159192","title":{"rendered":"Competition watchdog investigates major housebuilders over leaseholds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barratt, Persimmon, Taylor Wimpey and Countryside face action from CMAThe competition watchdog is investigating four of the UK\u2019s biggest housebuilders after uncovering evidence that buyers of leasehold properties were misled and charged excessive fees. Barratt, Persimmon, Taylor Wimpey and Countryside Properties all face action after the Competition and Markets Authority found \u201ctroubling evidence\u201d of unfair practices. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2020\/sep\/04\/competition-watchdog-takes-enforcement-action-over-leaseholds\" target=\"_blank\">Competition watchdog investigates major housebuilders over leaseholds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barratt, Persimmon, Taylor Wimpey and Countryside face action from CMAThe competition watchdog is investigating four of the UK\u2019s biggest housebuilders after uncovering evidence that buyers of leasehold properties were misled and charged excessive fees. Barratt, Persimmon, Taylor Wimpey and Countryside Properties all face action after the Competition and Markets Authority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}