Sebastian O'Kelly

Richard Davidoff fails to block right to manage – from a residents’ management company where he is the only director

New build flat sales volume has fallen 60% and re-sales trail old and new houses

Sir David Amess, RIP. 1952-2021

Mother and 12-year-old son living on friend’s sofa after eviction from grade 2 listed flat after service charge dispute tops £20,000 with costs

FirstPort buys up Freemont: the property management firm set up by its ousted Politburo

LKP quits FoPRA as it appoints Roger Southam an ‘esteemed honorary consultant’ – after re-surfacing from the Cayman Islands

Sun shines on the leaseholders’ demo at Parliament: after Jenrick, is this a new dawn?

CMA forces Countryside Properties plc to strike out doubling ground rents: it was selling them as late as May 2017!

Dame Judith Hackitt says cladding leaseholders risk ruin with rip-off charges. She wants to help. But is still at sea over leasehold law …

BBC2 Newsnight special on corrosive leasehold and the building safety crisis … with no minister present at all

Richard Davidoff, of ABC Estates, ‘breached his fiduciary duties’ after disastrous performance as a court-appointed manager, rules property tribunal

RICS dreams up another feeble ‘code of practice’, as Lord Best’s statutory regulator of property managers falls victim to Covid

EWS1 on under 18m high buildings … is still an utter mess

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Justin Madders MP asks why Redrow is selling freeholds at Ledsham Garden Village for £4,000 when they were £6,500. And what about those who paid too much?

National Leasehold Campaign email dump urges developers to settle up like Aviva and Persimmon have done with CMA

And so the building safety crisis lurches towards mass forfeitures …

LKP reverses forfeiture of suicide’s flat securing family £40,000

CMA forces Aviva to re-set rip-off doubling ground rents to what they were when homes were first bought …

Bottomley calls on Boris Johnson to hold fire safety funding summit

Inside job goons found guilty of stealing park home of Sonia McColl OBE

Saturday 5 June: Cladding leaseholders to demonstrate outside sales suites of house builders

Analysis of where next with the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill

Freeholders and housebuilders have plucked the leasehold golden goose, and now the path is clear for commonhold

House of Lords turns into the House of Serfs to attack the iniquity of leasehold ground rents

Government announces Commonhold Council to prevent ‘hidden costs’ and ‘the egregious practices currently seen in some leaseholds’

Trial for two accused of stealing the home of park homes campaigner Sonia McColl OBE

Enough is enough! Ballymore must pay!

If government’s is tempted to dither over banning new ground rents, then this woman’s £1m a year for a small flat should clinch it …

Scourge of RTMs, Israel Moskovitz sits as a director … of a residents’ management company in Sunderland

Rendall and Rittner … no insurance commissions, but it owns an offshore ‘captive’ insurance company making a 40% profit on leaseholders’ premiums

LKP to monitor bank exposure as cladding flats sell to cash buyers in auctions

Communities Select Committee calls on government to scrap cladding loan scheme and establish a ‘Comprehensive Building Safety Fund’