Sebastian O'Kelly

The Times reports that families ‘lost £3 billion’ on resale of leasehold retirement flats, while developers and freehold speculators made millions

Ground rent baron James Tuttiett gives £8,500 to the Tories (which is a bit stingy, considering …)

Help! Is there a WordPress using leaseholder out there?

Churchill Retirement donates £150,000 to Conservatives. To retain ground rents, by any chance?

LKP patron Jim Fitzpatrick retires as one of Labour’s most respected MPs

Managers retrieve possessions of evacuated residents at cladding site Citiscape

17,000 households living in private blocks with dangerous cladding like Grenfell

Guardian reports dismal retirement flat re-sale prices, as seller ponders £28,000 offer

Can the Tories wriggle out of reforming leasehold? Don’t bet on it …

Residents at cladding site Citiscape allowed back in to retrieve possessions

FPRA annual conference: Labour has a clear leasehold reform agenda, but why are the Tories wobbly?

Shared ‘ownership’ is NOT ownership. It’s the ‘pay-day loan’ of housing and most regret having bought, London Assembly told

ARMA: prepare for a regulated leasehold management world

NLC conveyancing report on BBC R4 You and Yours today

Gary Streeter MP: Hand over the freeholds at Saltram Meadows, Persimmon, or else lose Help To Buy …

The new leaseholders’ hero … Lloyd George

Is Salisbury Cathedral justified in putting the squeeze on leaseholders living on its close?

What if Berkeley had built Charter Quay as commonhold? Site visit by officials and Law Commission

Moskovitz forfeits £400k Camden flat from 24-year-old woman ‘whose brother did not forward correspondence for two years’

Fairview New Homes cancels sale as buyer wanted own solicitor and mortgage broker, says Times

What to do about the Grenfell cladding scandal, asks Oxford conference

Countryside Properties plc tells leaseholders wanting their freeholds: We’ve signed the pledge (and we’ve flogged them on, anyway) …

LKP meets Competition and Markets Authority over leasehold house mis-selling

South Somerset council enters the ‘fleecehold’ racket

Barratt evacuates Grenfell cladding site Citiscape

Redrow: ‘shoddy workmanship and leasehold games’, but bumper profits from Help To Buy

John McDonnell is a leaseholder, reveals Daily Mail in hatchet job article

Scale of leasehold house scandal revealed in mass email dump to house builder bosses

Mass email dump: leasehold home owners demand their freeholds after Persimmon caves into court action

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Ken Clarke says ‘serious problems’ in leasehold

Harrow to hit council leaseholders with £4,500 fire safety bills

Elderly Accommodation Counsel says ‘recent retirement flat resales have increased in value’