Sebastian O'Kelly

Taylor Wimpey to pay all fire safety works on all sites built over past 20 years

Property tribunal tightens up how it appoints section 24 court-appointed managers after the Richard Davidoff debacle

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

Time for leaseholders in mixed-use sites to take control

In Gove we trust, but developers can pay cash

Reverse ferret: Taylor Wimpey NOW agrees to sort out re-sale buyers of its rip-off ground rent leasehold properties

CMA forces Taylor Wimpey to sort out rip-off ten-year doubling ground rents

Richard Davidoff of ABC Estates expelled from IRPM

Two ex-employees of ABC Estates fail to stop Richard Davidoff defamation action over critical Google reviews with fake names (and ‘face £36,000 costs so far’)

Well, can Sir Keith Lindblom do anything about Richard Davidoff’s continuing role as an officer of the property tribunal?

Shadow housing brief passes from Mike Amesbury to Matthew Pennycook

Time to tell MPs what you think about the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill – and why it must not be nobbled

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

Sir Peter Bottomley calls on ministers to listen to ‘whistleblower’ ex-employees of Richard Davidoff (of ABC Estates)

Property tribunal chamber president Siobhan McGrath says Richard Davidoff has two other section 24 court appointments – ‘as far as I can ascertain’ – and proposes a new practice code to encourage section 24 appointees to behave

Leaseholder and ex-Number 10 advisor to David Cameron issues call for reform of property managers after Richard Davidoff case

Richard Davidoff fails to block right to manage – from a residents’ management company where he is the only director

New build flat sales volume has fallen 60% and re-sales trail old and new houses

Sir David Amess, RIP. 1952-2021

Mother and 12-year-old son living on friend’s sofa after eviction from grade 2 listed flat after service charge dispute tops £20,000 with costs

FirstPort buys up Freemont: the property management firm set up by its ousted Politburo

LKP quits FoPRA as it appoints Roger Southam an ‘esteemed honorary consultant’ – after re-surfacing from the Cayman Islands

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

CMA forces Countryside Properties plc to strike out doubling ground rents: it was selling them as late as May 2017!

Dame Judith Hackitt says cladding leaseholders risk ruin with rip-off charges. She wants to help. But is still at sea over leasehold law …

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

Richard Davidoff, of ABC Estates, ‘breached his fiduciary duties’ after disastrous performance as a court-appointed manager, rules property tribunal

RICS dreams up another feeble ‘code of practice’, as Lord Best’s statutory regulator of property managers falls victim to Covid

EWS1 on under 18m high buildings … is still an utter mess

https://www.leaseholdknowledge.com/30334-2/

Justin Madders MP asks why Redrow is selling freeholds at Ledsham Garden Village for £4,000 when they were £6,500. And what about those who paid too much?

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