Secretariat of the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold reform

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Onslow Square forfeiture

Wellcome Trust spends £114,000 on lawyers to defeat Onslow Square leaseholder in £6,000 dispute

Sir Peter Bototmley Leasehold Advisory Service

‘If I fail to offend anyone, I will do it next time,’ Bottomley tells appalled leasehold professionals at LEASE annual conference

McCarthy and Stone resale values

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

Claude Wehrle, Claude Schmidt Gwenaëlle Derrendinger)

Grenfell is becoming our worst corporate scandal, says Dominic Lawson in Sunday Times

Roy Wilshire

Getting Cayman Islands freeholders to help with cladding crisis is an additional difficulty, says UK’s top fire chief

E and J Captial Partners

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

Sun shines on the leaseholders’ demo at Parliament: after Jenrick, is this a new dawn?

Will Astor

‘Cameron’s brother-in-law Will Astor and the toxic leasehold scandal’, Daily Mail

forfeiture by neighbour

Neighbour forfeits leaseholder’s £600,000 London maisonette for putting in a new bathroom

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

Persimmon sleaze

Persimmon sold leasehold houses for £50,000 more than same-size freehold houses at Harrow View West

Thea Gilmore leaseholders

LKP: Start as we mean to go on …

Spire View commonhold

Spire View, in Pickering, shows a commonhold future with no leases at all, says Sunday Times

Martin Paine 'crook' MPs told

Martin Paine ‘is a crook who is turning sleaze in leases into an art form’, MPs told

David Marsden Canary Riverside

Canary Riverside’s lawyers at Trowers & Hamlins in ‘ill-conceived’ bid to thwart Parliamentary debate

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Dire state of apartment re-sales in London revealed in Hamptons report

‘London sellers were more likely than anyone else to sell their home for less than they bought it for’ -…

Judges in St David’s Square case deliver a £31,000 unhappy New Year to ARC Time Freehold Fund, FirstPort and debt collectors JB Leitch

ARC Time Freehold Fund stung with £31,000 costs bill following failed appeal at St David’s Square, led by Liam SpenderARC…

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News

In Pennycook government has a good housing minister: let him finish the job by finishing off leasehold

Court of Appeal victory over St David’s Square £500k ‘contract for eternity’ door entry system

Removing freeholders’ development value in enfranchisement – as the Law Commission recommended – is vital to reform and conversion to commonhold

Across from Pennycook’s office: Bad defeat for leaseholders as Court of Appeal says ‘reasonableness’ of costs means they followed a reasonable process. Not that they might be madly inflated

Losing their £5m judicial review against the leasehold reforms threatens freeholders’ long era of primacy. So, what’s next?

Speak out in this government consultation by 26 September – because freeholders and their army of helpers will certainly do so

Land Registry blunder means Cresta Court RTM fails at Court of Appeal as notification was not served on one leaseholder – who actually supported right to manage

As government seeks balance in leasehold litigation costs, Liam Spender asks Court of Appeal to cap freeholder’s lawfare fees over ‘contract for eternity’ dispute

Leaseholders escape £55,000 legal bill dumped on the service charge by Triplark – as reforms seek to balance arms in leasehold litigation

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National Leasehold Campaign

This is the most effective forum for leaseholders ever created. It is on Facebook, founded by Katie Kendrick, Cath Williams and Jo Darbyshire – who are also all trustees of LKP. The three have established an invaluable campaign group for leaseholders

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News Archive

Ex-minister Justin Madders becomes co-chair of APPG. Full list below:

Even if government wins Judicial Review, half of all leaseholders could be left worse off by unfavourable deferment and capitalisation rates. (And conversion to commonhold would be toast, too)

Leaseholders should be told service charges for first 10 years of ownership, says London Assembly

Judicial Review Final Day: Both sides face a nervous wait, but freeholders have already won delay

Judicial Review Day 3: Freeholders incur judge’s wrath as government opens its case

Judicial Review Day 2: Heat is on and the wigs come off in sweltering courtroom 76

Judicial Review Day 1: Bad start for freeholders but three days to go

Your full guide to this week’s judicial review by freeholders to torpedo reform to leasehold

What the accounts say … St John’s Wood leasehold estate is worth only 8% of the £380m John Lyon’s Charity

Freehold owning charity in judicial review says ‘disastrous’ leasehold reforms will benefit millionaires and deprive poor children

Damp cycle ride on a Saturday morning leads to Building Safety Act victory in Court of Appeal

Government announces service charge reforms … with as much enthusiasm as a visit to the dentist

National Leasehold Campaign founders honoured for their work

Lloyds Bank becomes the latest ‘for profit’ registered social landlord

MPs step forward in the new All Party Parliamentary Group for leasehold and commonhold reform

Ending marriage value would benefit short-lease owners. But leaseholders with 80-150 years left could face a considerable hike in extension costs over the current unreformed regime

Leaseholders blocked from intervening against freeholders’ judicial review against reforms

Freeholders’ development rights stand in the way of leaseholder enfranchisement – and the future of commonhold

Nationwide is the mortgage lender most nervy about ground rents, suggests survey by National Leasehold Campaign

Professor Susan Bright

Might consumer protection law be a silver bullet against freeholders’ escalating ground rents? (And the threat to reform?)

Path is set to kill off leasehold and replace it with commonhold

LKP’s guide for leaseholders to respond to government’s proposed permitted insurance fees: the good and not so good

Right to manage reforms announced … days after Chelsea Bridge Wharf wins RTM

Leaseholders win control of 1,132-flat Chelsea Bridge Wharf … which means they also manage the HQ of housebuilder the Berkeley Group

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Astor's empire

Freeholders on course for judicial review showdown against leasehold reforms in January

Abacus Land sees its ground rents more than double to £711, thanks to RPI

Deadline today for freeholders to declare offshore beneficial ownership

When inflation linked ground rents are worse than ten-year doubling ones. That would be now …

Mick Platt

Can’t we hear why leasehold reform is bad straight from the top: from Count Padulli, or Will Astor, or James Tuttiett, or the Gould brothers, or Vincent Tchenguiz … ?

CMA slaps down doubling ground rents of 15 punters who bought cheating freeholds from Countryside Properties plc

Fletcher Court

Hallmark Property Group seeks to put 44 flats worth £15m on top of a block with ACM cladding, waking watch, a B2 rating after EWS1 … and 75 utterly stressed out leaseholders

Countryside Properties plc

National Leasehold Campaign email dump urges developers to settle up like Aviva and Persimmon have done with CMA

Long Harbour Board

Oh, dear! Long Harbour private equity speculators buy freehold where ground rent FALLS from £250 to £143

Sir Peter Bottomley furious

MPs fail to stop Robert Jenrick’s multi-billion pound planning hand-out to offshore freeholders

Tchenguiz Long Harbour Padulli

Beware ‘MacDUFF’ Scottish consumer-friendly land laws, say freeholders in lobbying report to save their incomes

Skyline Central HPL cladding

Long Harbour’s Adriatic Land backs leaseholders at Skyline Central 1 to get public money for HPL removal

More and more Astor’s empire

Local authority leasehold

Southwark council’s leaseholder conference is an invaluable resource for all

Southwark council meets its leaseholders. Lambeth pays them off (and deploys NDAs)

Why not impose a revived Florrie’s Law cap on council major works rather than see leaseholders made homeless?

£100k major works bills wipe out council leaseholders. But why are 40% of Right To Buy homes now owned by investors?

Hackney EWS1 charge

Hackney charges leaseholders £750 for EWS1

Florrie’s Law fails again as Haringey council dumps £100,000 bills on leaseholders in the midst of the Covid-19 disaster

Clairon Property Ombudsman

Housing Ombudsman names and shames social landlords ‘consistently wrong’ with leaseholders and shared owners

An open letter to Robert Jenrick: the costs of delayed leasehold reform

Academic bars Oxford City Council from entering his flat to finish major works

Helen Hayes leasehold

Southwark announces new bills … and no funds for leaseholder group

Emma Lunn Help To Buy

Right-to-buy owners are also being ripped off by the leasehold system, The Guardian reports

Tory trailblazers get Tower Hamlets to come out for commonhold in London first

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