Sebastian O'Kelly

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

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

FirstPort suspended from its own trade body the Property Institute

Freeholders win right for a judicial review to challenge 2024 Act

Homes England issued £236k secret fine to shared ownership retirement developer Platinum Skies

NLC recommissions leaseholders’ mental health survey

Government’s leasehold reform announcement was low key, but this is why we think it will deliver

Why it is going to be so important to shout in 2025 – and loudly – when government sets the leasehold Deferment Rate

Eagerstates: BBC finds £1.2m over-charging in 140 tribunal cases over five years

24 Labour MPs invite FirstPort to Westminster to explain ‘consistent complaints’

After begging to keep ground rents, why is McCarthy and Stone saying it now supports commonhold?

Leaseholders in Ilfracombe can claim legal costs against wideboy freeholders over £2.6m wrongly demanded service charges, says Court of Appeal

Spender wards off attempt to frustrate his appeal over £590,000 ‘contract for eternity’ intercom systems

Cladding disaster will cost £16.6 billion, says National Audit Office. Million people stuck in dangerous homes. 2035 is end date for the debacle. Oh, and £500,000 has been stolen (so far)…

Is the betrayal narrative over leasehold reform being over-played?

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

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

MPs set up new parliamentary group to reform leasehold

Fleecehold: The play. Back on stage in Camden August 22-24

Freeholders face class action over insurance commissions

Government to go to war on ‘feudal’ leasehold … But no commitment to zero ground rents

Peter Bottomley: Many thanks

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

Leasehold reform: So, was it worth it?

Damning ruling on E&J’s insurance over-charging

Sterling Estates Management fails to derail second effort at right to manage

Leasehold Bill: What a missed opportunity, with just about every MP wanting to go further …

Leaseholders are not the customer. They are the product, LKP tells Lords committee

Minnow developer Prime Metro has no assets. Warranty provider Acasta is stalling and in Gibraltar. How did seven £800k London flats get built in 2018 that are now falling apart and worth zero?

Dump the two-storey ‘ill-considered’ planning give-away to freeholders, says Sir Julian Lewis

Insurance pooling to lessen leasehold insurance bills appears to have stalled – but not commissions – says Sir Stephen Timms