Sebastian O'Kelly

Taylor Wimpey recommended conveyancing solicitors go bust after one is jailed for stealing £280,000

Keep the leasehold racket unreformed, Mainstay begs MPs

Questions for MPs to ask Taylor Wimpey and Long Harbour today …

Unhappy doubling ground rent customers deluge TrustPilot and TripAdvisor

Is Law Commission wobbly over 25% commercial exclusion to collective enfranchisement? (Let’s hope so)

VAT on house managers’ wages will cost leaseholders £50m a year

Property manager who champions leaseholders resigns from Tory party over ‘watered down’ reforms

Welsh Assembly evidence over Grenfell cladding costs by FPRA ‘consultant’ Cassandra Zanelli is called into question

Did government cop-out on retirement ground rents stuff new thinking in the sector?

Labour MP Helen Goodman fights ‘fleecehold’ rip-offs with Private Members’ Bill

Even if you only respond to one question, take part in the Law Commission consultation!

ARMA pleads to be on Lord Best’s regulatory working group. It should be. And so should LKP …

Government action on leasehold scandal has been ‘too weak and too slow’, says John Healey

‘Uncharitable’ Mary Magdalene and Holy Jesus Trust and the issue of lease extensions

Brokenshire wrongly says freeholders have paid for Grenfell cladding removal

Brokenshire to meet house builders and freehold investors … but no leaseholders

Select Committee on leasehold, November 5 2018

Google removes FS Legal’s advertisement ‘falsely implying affiliation’ with NLC

Private Eye warns that Brokenshire’s £10 ground rents undermine reform of leasehold

Law Commission meets leaseholders in Manchester

Long Harbour lobby MP Kate Osamor bars leasehold activist from Twitter feed

Lawyers offer pro bono aid to leaseholder facing QC in £24,000 dispute in Upper Tribunal

Anger at Law Commission meetings in offices of freeholders’ solicitors

Southwark litigant-in-person leaseholder faces wipe-out after £24,000 tribunal victory. Council now deploys ‘shock and awe’ QC …

LKP London meeting for leaseholders November 10

Justin Madders Bill: 10x annual ground rent and the freehold is yours … Anyone got a problem with that?

Flush with money: how Kier Homes leaseholders pay for a public toilet in Worthing

‘Compo’ law firm FS Legal threatens libel action against National Leasehold Campaign co-founder

Park home owners: government action better than expected (well, that’s sort-of positive)

Government thinking freeholders are paternalistic long-term custodians of a building is where it has gone wrong over Grenfell cladding

Why should Will Astor, Tchenguiz etc be paying to remove Grenfell cladding?

No help for leaseholders trapped in unsellable homes, says government

£10 ground rents applies to flats and house