Sebastian O'Kelly

Eagerstates: BBC finds £1.2m over-charging in 140 tribunal cases over five years

24 Labour MPs invite FirstPort to Westminster to explain ‘consistent complaints’

After begging to keep ground rents, why is McCarthy and Stone saying it now supports commonhold?

Leaseholders in Ilfracombe can claim legal costs against wideboy freeholders over £2.6m wrongly demanded service charges, says Court of Appeal

Spender wards off attempt to frustrate his appeal over £590,000 ‘contract for eternity’ intercom systems

Cladding disaster will cost £16.6 billion, says National Audit Office. Million people stuck in dangerous homes. 2035 is end date for the debacle. Oh, and £500,000 has been stolen (so far)…

Is the betrayal narrative over leasehold reform being over-played?

Freeholders on course for judicial review showdown against leasehold reforms in January

Southwark council’s leaseholder conference is an invaluable resource for all

MPs set up new parliamentary group to reform leasehold

Fleecehold: The play. Back on stage in Camden August 22-24

Freeholders face class action over insurance commissions

Government to go to war on ‘feudal’ leasehold … But no commitment to zero ground rents

Peter Bottomley: Many thanks

Leaseholders’ victory over ‘contracts for eternity’ is overturned by Upper Tribunal

Leasehold reform: So, was it worth it?

Damning ruling on E&J’s insurance over-charging

Sterling Estates Management fails to derail second effort at right to manage

Leasehold Bill: What a missed opportunity, with just about every MP wanting to go further …

Leaseholders are not the customer. They are the product, LKP tells Lords committee

Minnow developer Prime Metro has no assets. Warranty provider Acasta is stalling and in Gibraltar. How did seven £800k London flats get built in 2018 that are now falling apart and worth zero?

Dump the two-storey ‘ill-considered’ planning give-away to freeholders, says Sir Julian Lewis

Insurance pooling to lessen leasehold insurance bills appears to have stalled – but not commissions – says Sir Stephen Timms

We promised ‘fairness and transparency for leaseholders’ so let’s do it, says Bob Blackman

MPs call for fleecehold of private estates to be stamped out

Clive Betts: removing onerous ground rents is ‘completely compatible with the European convention on human rights’

Is Gove an empty vessel making the loudest noise? asks Samantha Dixon. And where is Lord Best’s report on regulating property managers?

‘Even Del Boy had limits, Mr Moskovitz,’ Stella Creasy tells MPs

Stop this ‘bad freeholders’ nonsense. Abuse in leasehold is organised, trained and systemic, says Ruth Cadbury MP

Lee Rowley and Matthew Pennycook duel political points over leasehold reform Bill

Freeholders cried crocodile tears for old ladies and said the pensions sector would be destabilised, says former housing minister. (And commonhold is ready to roll …)

Michael Gove: ‘squeeze every income stream that freeholders have’. Parliament debates leasehold reform Bill

Our parliamentary briefing on the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill