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Sebastian O'Kelly

Leasehold reforms this parliamentary session, says minister

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Baroness Altmann, Baroness Scott of Bybrook, Lord Kennedy of Southwark, Lord Young of Cookham

Bottomley to raise with Churchill Retirement its decision to continue charging ground rents

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, RetirementTag: Churchill Retirement Living, Ground rents, Housing Today, React News, Spencer McCarthy

FCA finds ‘significant shortcomings’ in leasehold insurance. While Michael Gove urges it to look further

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: Financial Conduct Authority, Michael Gove

Lord Greenhalgh

Interview with Lord Greenhalgh: I don’t think the leasehold reforms will be in the King’s Speech

Category: Commonhold, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Building Safety Act, Commonhold, Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act, Lord Greenhalgh

Malcolm Digby Warner

Landlord Malcolm Digby Warner, of Pediment Properties: Sorry I did not ask for ground rent for five years, but pay up now, along with £785.82 in interest I lost because of my carelessness – or I will forfeit the lease!

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: Malcolm Digby Warner, Pediment Properties Limited, Ruth Archer, Thangham Debbonaire MP

Nigel Glen decamps to FirstPort, abandoning the ‘Property Institute’ (ARMA, IRPM)

Category: ARMA, IRPM, Latest News, NewsTag: ARMA, Emeria, FirstPort, IRPM, Nigel Glen, Property Institute

Inspired Sutton

Cladding leaseholder Arjun Batish, with no legal training, fights £200,000 fire safety bills – and wins

Category: Latest News, News, PressTag: Arjun Batish, Inspired Asset Management, Inspired Sutton, Judge Timothy Powell, Ruth Bloomfield, Siobhan McGrath, The Times

St David's Square

Victory over FirstPort at St David’s Square with £100,000s to be re-payed to leaseholders over insurance and leasing of ancient door entry system

Category: FirstPort, Latest News, Liam Spender, News, Property tribunalTag: FirstPort, Liam Spender, St David's Square

Bungling operations manager and directors at retirement site Dibleys Heritage signed £66,000 a year energy deal incorrectly – and have cost leaseholders £40,000 in legal fees

Category: Latest News, News, RetirementTag: Charles Knapper, David Johnston MP, Dibleys Heritage, RWK Goodman, Section 20

Building Safety Bill

Galliard and Lendlease were quick to get leaseholders on the hook for building safety bills, now they won’t sign Michael Gove’s agreement to pay up

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Abbey Developments, Avant, Ballymore, Dandara, Emerson Group (Jones Homes), Galliard, Inland Homes, Lendlease, London Square, Michael Gove, Rydon Homes, Telford Homes

FirstPort blows a fuse: Why are energy subsidies absent from the £265,784 electricity bills – an increase of 154% – at St David’s Square, tribunal is asked

Category: FirstPort, Latest News, News, Property tribunalTag: Energy Bill Relief Scheme, FirstPort, JB Leitch, Judge Vance, Kully Sahdra, Liam Spender, Miriam Seifert, St David's Square

Property rip-off ‘Whack-a-mole’: Now it’s your chance to tell CMA about fleecehold

Category: Fleecehold, Latest News, NewsTag: Andy Carter MP, CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, Fleecehold, Greenbelt Group Limited, Justin Madders MP, Professor Susan Bright, Steinbeck Grange, Welsh Government

You could not make it up: Estates and Management faces strike-off over late accounts!

Category: Latest News, News, TchenguizTag: Estates and Management, JB Leitch, Vincent Tchenguiz

Lee Rowley

Dismal picture of leasehold emerges from MPs’ debate. But no government commitment on reforms

Category: Fleecehold, Justin Madders MP, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: ABC Estates, Andy Carter MP, Apsana Begum MP, Barry Gardiner MP, Competition and Markets Authority, Financial Conduct Authority, FirstPort, Fleecehold, Florence Eshalomi MP, Hallmark Premier Estates, Justin Madders MP, Lee Rowley MP, Matthew Pennycook, Matthew Pennycook MP, Mike Amesbury MP, Munira Wilson MP, Nigel Wilkins, Sir Peter Bottomley, Steinbeck Grange, Stephen McPartland MP

Barry Gardner

MPs briefing: Stop trying to reform leasehold. Just bring it to an end, and join the rest of the world

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Justin Madders MP

New Estate Management thrown out of Property Ombudsman for not paying £1,000 award

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: Adam New, IRPM, New Estate Management, The Property Ombudsman

Deadline today for freeholders to declare offshore beneficial ownership

Category: Latest News, News, William Waldorf AstorTag: Abacus Land, Abacus Land 4 Limited, Armalytix, Heysmoor Heights, Long Harbour, Mike Ward, Putin, Register of Overseas Entities

Mr Spender goes to war over St David’s Square service charges … and landlord caves in over more than £100,000 buildings insurance commissions on eve of tribunal

Category: FirstPort, JB Leitch, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Berkeley, Countryside Contracts, FirstPort, FIT Nominee 2 Limited, FIT Nominee Limited, JB Leitch, Liam Spender, NatWest Group plc, RBS, St David's Square

After seven efforts at reform – with more on the way – Sections 21 and 22 of Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 are still flawed service charge protections

Category: APPG, Latest News, News, Property tribunalTag: Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, Rawdon Crozier, Sections 21 and 22

Why not impose a revived Florrie’s Law cap on council major works rather than see leaseholders made homeless?

Category: Latest News, Local authority leasehold, News, PressTag: BBC, Florrie's law, Islington, Local authority leasehold, The Guardian, Thurrock

Railpen: We don’t want to invest in ground rents anymore because ‘there is a consumer on the far end’

Category: Latest News, News

£100k major works bills wipe out council leaseholders. But why are 40% of Right To Buy homes now owned by investors?

Category: Latest News, Local authority leasehold, News, PressTag: Local authority leasehold, Right to Buy, Tom Copley

At last a housing minister who seems to want to reform leasehold, and knows legal costs are being gamed to keep freeholders on top

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Lord Greenhalgh, Lucy Frazer MP, Michael Gove, Sir Peter Bottomley

Metropolitan housing association MTVH tells MPs: we won’t collect ground rent, we have ditched marriage value and all leases are 990 years (where possible)

Category: Latest News, News, Parliament, Shared ownershipTag: Metropolitan and Thames Valley Housing, Sue Phillips

Another buy-to-let leaseholder landlord faces ruin over building safety costs

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Buy-to-let, Michael Gove

RMC / RTM directors threaten mass resignation if ‘building safety directors’ are imposed

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Baz Jafar, Giles Grover, Jim Illingworth, Martin Boyd

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 …’

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News

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

Category: Latest News, News, Park Homes, Sir Peter BottomleyTag: Park Home Owners Justice Campaign, Sir Peter Bottomley, Sonia McColl OBE, Tony Turner, Wyldecrest

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

Category: Latest News, News, Park HomesTag: Ben Spencer MP, Heather Wheeler MP, Justin Madders MP, Mark Tami MP, Mary Robinson MP, Number 10, Park Home Owners Justice Campaign, Park homes, Paul Baker, Robert Courts MP, Robin Millar MP, Sir Peter Bottomley, Sonia McColl OBE, Steve Brine MP, Tony Turner, William Tandoh

Richard Davidoff

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

Category: Latest News, News, Richard DavidoffTag: Paul Cleaver, Richard Davidoff, Section 24 manager, Urang

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

Category: HomeSlider, Latest News, NewsTag: Sir Ken Knight

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

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: ARCO, Bernie Wales, Beth Rudolf, Jeremy Dharmasena, Katie Kendrick, Lord Best, Professor Susan Bright, Robert Bryant Pearson, Sally Ireland, Siobhan McGrath

Compass Point

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

Category: Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: Clear Building Management, Compass Point, Financial Conduct Authority, Inside Housing

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