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Three MPs tell Entwistle to pay up more over Peverel / Cirrus scandal, or accept binding mediation

Peverel cheated pensioners in £1.4 million tenders at 65 sites, says OFT

Pravda alive and well at LEASE, ARMA and Peverel … who ALL support the OFT inquiry into leasehold fiddling

Freeholder’s barrister Justin Bates named in Parliament yesterday. And Benjamin Mire. And Tchenguiz. And Yianis. And Israel Moskovitz …

LKP gets full investigation into leasehold management by the Office of Fair Trading

OFT will report on the Peverel / Cirrus price-fixing scandal on Friday

BNP Paribas is charging £220 subletting fee – for very little

Barrister Justin Bates delays ANOTHER right to manage by nearly two years. Corrie and Man United stars among the ‘victims’

High charges from Deacon property management. Advice needed

Stop taking money from Benjamin Mire, Bottomley tells Leasehold Advisory Service

Michelle Banks: silent over abuses, but ‘ARMA-Q will be good for leaseholders’

Judge Tim Powell explains First-Tier Tribunal … but leaseholders are not happy that justice is being done

Sunday Times reports the forfeiture scandal of Dennis Jackson at Plantation Wharf

If you buy this flat, subletting fees are £10,000 … investors deterred from buying

Managing agent Benjamin Mire WAS to have been sacked from his judicial appointment … BUT his company is still up for a string of insiders’ property awards!

Sir Peter Bottomley condemns criminal behaviour, price-fixing, cheating freeholders, exit fee fiddles, opportunist lawyers and feeble judicial intervention

Israel Moskovitz fails – again – to appeal against the Regent Court right to manage

MPs back Leasehold Knowledge Partnership call to reform residents’ associations – drawn up by the man who won back £500,000 off Tchenguiz / Peverel

Sub-letting fees should not be more than £40, landlords are told (four times by the Land Tribunal)

Freehold Managers demands £210 to sublet, with an extra £120 for each new tenancy …

It’s £850 for subletting … er, alright, I will take £100, says boss of Hallmark Developments

Parliamentary Questions over Benjamin Mire case

McCarthy and Stone gives Peverel the push at 25 retirement sites

‘Don’t make the pensioners of Regent Court take you to court AGAIN, Mr Moskovitz,’ urges Bottomley

Benjamin Mire ‘resigns’ from property tribunal panel after complaints

Who are the good lawyers in leasehold?

Barrister Justin Bates fails to block right to manage on the grounds that leaseholders’ company name did not include ‘RTM’ in the title

Our freeholder calls us leasehold owners “a bunch of animals”

Leasehold owners of flats worth £60,000 are hit with £1 million refurb bill after freehold is scooped up in auction

Just how much can a freeholder charge in a leasehold flat sale?

ARMA-Q reformers get strong backing at annual conference

What does LKP think of ARMA reforms, we were asked. As the annual conference begins in London today, here we go …

Pickles to stop councils charging leasehold owners more than £10,000 for major block repairs. But will it help many?