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

At last, some sense over the cladding crisis from … Rob Perrins, of the Berkeley Group

What if Berkeley had built Charter Quay as commonhold? Site visit by officials and Law Commission

Criticism over bumper pay bonuses for Persimmon and Berkeley bosses

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

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

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

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

Leaseholders’ victory over ‘contracts for eternity’ is overturned by Upper Tribunal

Michael Gove: ‘squeeze every income stream that freeholders have’. Parliament debates leasehold reform Bill

War of attrition: FirstPort appeals St David’s Square leaseholder victory (after telling leaseholders everyone would be sharing in the win)

We just made it up: landlord pays back £120,000 for intercom costs at St David’s Square that it cannot account for (and is leased for eternity)

Interview with Lord Greenhalgh: I don’t think the leasehold reforms will be in the King’s Speech

Victory over FirstPort at St David’s Square with £100,000s to be re-payed to leaseholders over insurance and leasing of ancient door entry system

Mr Spender goes to war over St David’s Square service charges … and landlord caves in over more than £100,000 buildings insurance commissions on eve of tribunal

As the tide turns on UK property, any sympathy for this baby boomer investor: ‘I own three cladding flats and two other investment properties. I am considering bankruptcy …’

FirstPort jacks up accounting fees at St David’s Square by 80% … and then bodges accounts, leaving leaseholders overcharged by more than £17,500

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

Taylor Wimpey to pay fire safety works on sites built over past 20 years. (But what’s the catch, as with their tricksy doubling ground plan?)

Gove backs cladding leaseholders in urging investor Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) to make UK housebuilders pay for build defects

Few disagreements over banning ground rents, but last minute effort to keep them for retirement properties by Theresa Villiers and Sir Desmond Swayne

FirstPort faces leasehold rebellion over service charges at St David’s Square

BBC2 Newsnight special on corrosive leasehold and the building safety crisis … with no minister present at all

FirstPort charges leaseholders 33% commission on temporary staff recruitment

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

Freeholders and housebuilders have plucked the leasehold golden goose, and now the path is clear for commonhold

House of Lords turns into the House of Serfs to attack the iniquity of leasehold ground rents

Government announces ban on new ground rents now, THEN reform leasehold (which is what LKP recommended)

Do NOT buy a new property with ground rents

LKP calls for levy on developers and freeholders over cladding

Cracks in the leasehold racket as Barratt London drops ground rents

Report from Tchenguiz Family Trust, Long Harbour and Wallace Estates seeks to side-line leasehold reforms by fear-mongering over fire safety

Barratt’s £15.8m bill at Citiscape … and £70m bill for all cladding sites