Sebastian O'Kelly

MPs attack government for dumping historic building failures onto leaseholders

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

Tory councillors and Labour MP back leaseholders in blocking ERE freeholds shoving up two more storeys under Jenrick’s planning give-away

Greenhalgh to dump ‘affordable’ cladding bills on leaseholders, which they were promised AGAIN and AGAIN would not happen …

Government should have equity stake in cladding freeholds covered by the fund, Hilary Benn MP tells APPG

ARMA becomes a lobbyist for freeholders

Freeholder Andrew Craige Curtis to use two-storey planning give-away at a north London cladding site while leaseholders ruined with remediation bills

Property tribunal judge chairs sector-driven code of practice review that is boycotted by leaseholders

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

LKP survey of EWS1 shows that 90% of cladding sites DO need remediation

Lord Greenhalgh becomes the housing minister responsible for leasehold

URGENT: Respond to Building Safety Bill call for evidence

Surveyors discouraged by insurers from carrying out EWS1, says Sir Bob Neill MP

Freeholder Artisan H2 Limited succeeds in insuring cladding site Albion Works … but not for fire

LKP, NLC and FPRA decline to participate in trade body insiders’ code of conduct

Settle up with doubling ground rent victims or see you in court next year, CMA tells house builders

Building Safety Bill means … leaseholders are going to have to pay a lot of money to clear up the mess of other people

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

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

Law Commission reports offer blueprint to demolish monetising landlordism in residential leasehold

To build 8,120 new flats: Government gifts freeholders £41bn, devalues flats by £200m … and torpedoes leasehold reform

MHCLG officials tell MPs: Don’t know costs of waking watch. No idea that at least three cladding sites are uninsured. We are not to blame but ‘30 years of developer failures’

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

Insiders carve up code of practice for property managers – having been silent on systemic abuses for years!

Two-storey planning windfall means billions for freeholders, reports The Times

Has Jenrick just handed £1bn each to Astor, Tchenguiz and Wallace Estates with two-storey planning gift?

FirstPort and Mainstay unite to create ‘monster’ management company controlling 275,000 flats

Solicitor leaseholder may lose Chelsea flat used as brothel

Louie Burns, LKP trustee, dies

Cladding leaseholders: Please complete survey on EWS for MPs

Justin Madders urges Redrow founder Steve Morgan to speed along EWS1 form so leaseholder can sell flat

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

Communities Select Committee: cladding blocks still doing nothing by December should have their freehold removed