Sebastian O'Kelly

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 …’

Wyldecrest thwarts attempts by park home activist Tony Turner to provide statement of accounts in upper property tribunal

Park home demonstrators demand end to 10% sales fees – as litany of crooked practice reported to MPs

Richard Davidoff given the boot as section 24 court appointed manager after expulsion from ARMA, IRPM and Propertymark

If freeholders can’t pay to remediate ‘their’ buildings, they should lose the freeholds and the income streams that come with them

Westminster Forum: rare meeting where freeholders, leaseholders, professionals actually discussed leasehold reform … together

Compass Point faces insurance price hike from £12,000 to £250,000, with 21 days to pay the bill

South Cliff Tower and Southdown Surveyors regarded £3m repairs consultation as ‘something to be endured’ rather than ‘influence decision making’

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

Pier / Regis: ‘Pay up £120 for subletting!’ But it says £50 in the lease. ‘Tribunal. Legal costs. Forfeiture … er, alright, we will take £50. Same dance next year? …’

More than 20,000 leaseholders benefit from CMA action over ground rent mis-selling

Barratt off the hook from CMA over mis-selling leasehold homes

Leaseholders duck £430,000 legal bill to block celebrity architect Sophie Hick’s underground house next door

Can’t we hear why leasehold reform is bad straight from the top: from Count Padulli, or Will Astor, or James Tuttiett, or the Gould brothers, or Vincent Tchenguiz … ?

Rogue freeholder Michael Stainer imprisoned for three years

No ‘backsliding’ on Gove’s £3bn building safety levy, says his successor Greg Clark

Richard Davidoff ex-employees apologise for libel, meanwhile fines against ABC Estates pile up

Nothing to do with us, says Poltair Homes CEO, over 80 blighted shared ownership houses in Cornwall

Michael Gove gets the cartel of taxpayer subsidised housebuilders to pay up £5bn towards the building safety scandal … but not Lendlease or Galliard

Michael Gove: Is this the robust inquiry into leasehold insurance fiddles that you wanted from the FCA?

CMA slaps down doubling ground rents of 15 punters who bought cheating freeholds from Countryside Properties plc

Blunder forces Pier Management and debt collector JB Leitch to scrap £3,265 late ground rent bill (and forfeiture threat that accompanied it)

Israel Moskovitz fails to get £30 each from leaseholders for his ground rent demands (as barrister Rebecca Cattermole, acting pro bono, sees off Justin Bates in the Upper Tribunal)

Housing association L&Q abandons rip-off doubling ground rents after CMA prodding

Ted Baillieu: Your misconceived Twitter thread over the ‘polluter pays’ amendment should be removed

Are you overpaying for your lease extension?

Hallmark Property Group seeks to put 44 flats worth £15m on top of a block with ACM cladding, waking watch, a B2 rating after EWS1 … and 75 utterly stressed out leaseholders

Sucking a lemon, the Leasehold Advisory Service notes the ground rent Act – which it did absolutely nothing to assist

Not waiting for Gove: Kelly Tolhurst MP urges freeholder Israel Moskovitz to halt court action against leaseholders over £2m cladding and building safety costs

Gove calls on complacent FCA to stop the leasehold insurance rip-offs, and urges the CMA to get stuck in as well

Open letter to Taylor Wimpey: If you cared about sorting out your ground rent mess, you can pay back the money your own ex-customers have wasted over this scandal

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?)

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