Sebastian O'Kelly

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

Radius leaseholders rumble Taylor Wimpey for trying to flog off freehold to property punters …

FirstPort ‘spy’ leaves company after infiltrating leaseholders’ group on Facebook

Long Harbour’s Adriatic Land backs leaseholders at Skyline Central 1 to get public money for HPL removal

Has Jenrick been saved by the Cummings furore for rushing through approval of 1,500 home Docklands scheme that would have handed £40m to former publisher Richard Desmond?

Telegraph says buy Ground Rents Income Fund plc, which has fallen 31.6% and lost court action over Beetham Tower

RMG’s unexplained blunder increased pensioners’ ground rents by 59%, saying it was ‘in line with RPI’

Sir Bob Neill becomes cladding chair at APPG

Greenhalgh to Communities Select Committee: 1,700 non-ACM cladding blocks at high risk and some waking watch costs are ‘usurious’

Ever lengthening queue of desperate leaseholders now includes investors in student flats at Central Park Towers

Cladding leaseholders issue united video appeal to demand government help

Has Coronavirus caused collapse in service charge receipts? Not yet, says ARMA, but we will see in September …

19kg cylinder of propane gas found in roof of fire-stricken Samuel Garside House, says report

Section 20B: Joseph and Esther Gurvits too late to get £3,387 service charges after an RTM

Two charged with theft of mobile home of Sonia McColl OBE

Cladding remediation to restart despite pandemic

Post-Grenfell fire safety regime brings closer scrutiny of building owners … even shadey freeholders anonymously lurking in sunny tax havens

Bristol leaseholders fail to win freeholds to their homes as one was not a house, in Covid-19 online court case

Jenrick: ‘We owe it to Grenfell community to get building safety right’

A2 Dominion to dump 100% cladding costs on to 25% shared owners at City Wharf Hoxton

90-day reprieve on forfeiture