Sebastian O'Kelly

Leasehold reforms this parliamentary session, says minister

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Deadline today for freeholders to declare offshore beneficial ownership

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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 …’

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

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

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

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

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

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