Sebastian O'Kelly

CMA slaps down doubling ground rents of 15 punters who bought cheating freeholds from Countryside Properties plc

Blunder forces Pier Management and debt collector JB Leitch to scrap £3,265 late ground rent bill (and forfeiture threat that accompanied it)

Israel Moskovitz fails to get £30 each from leaseholders for his ground rent demands (as barrister Rebecca Cattermole, acting pro bono, sees off Justin Bates in the Upper Tribunal)

Housing association L&Q abandons rip-off doubling ground rents after CMA prodding

Ted Baillieu: Your misconceived Twitter thread over the ‘polluter pays’ amendment should be removed

Are you overpaying for your lease extension?

Hallmark Property Group seeks to put 44 flats worth £15m on top of a block with ACM cladding, waking watch, a B2 rating after EWS1 … and 75 utterly stressed out leaseholders

Sucking a lemon, the Leasehold Advisory Service notes the ground rent Act – which it did absolutely nothing to assist

Not waiting for Gove: Kelly Tolhurst MP urges freeholder Israel Moskovitz to halt court action against leaseholders over £2m cladding and building safety costs

Gove calls on complacent FCA to stop the leasehold insurance rip-offs, and urges the CMA to get stuck in as well

Open letter to Taylor Wimpey: If you cared about sorting out your ground rent mess, you can pay back the money your own ex-customers have wasted over this scandal

Taylor Wimpey to pay fire safety works on sites built over past 20 years. (But what’s the catch, as with their tricksy doubling ground plan?)

Property tribunal tightens up how it appoints section 24 court-appointed managers after the Richard Davidoff debacle

Gove backs cladding leaseholders in urging investor Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) to make UK housebuilders pay for build defects

Time for leaseholders in mixed-use sites to take control

In Gove we trust, but developers can pay cash

Reverse ferret: Taylor Wimpey NOW agrees to sort out re-sale buyers of its rip-off ground rent leasehold properties

CMA forces Taylor Wimpey to sort out rip-off ten-year doubling ground rents

Richard Davidoff of ABC Estates expelled from IRPM

Two ex-employees of ABC Estates fail to stop Richard Davidoff defamation action over critical Google reviews with fake names (and ‘face £36,000 costs so far’)

Well, can Sir Keith Lindblom do anything about Richard Davidoff’s continuing role as an officer of the property tribunal?

Shadow housing brief passes from Mike Amesbury to Matthew Pennycook

Time to tell MPs what you think about the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill – and why it must not be nobbled

Few disagreements over banning ground rents, but last minute effort to keep them for retirement properties by Theresa Villiers and Sir Desmond Swayne

FirstPort faces leasehold rebellion over service charges at St David’s Square

Sir Peter Bottomley calls on ministers to listen to ‘whistleblower’ ex-employees of Richard Davidoff (of ABC Estates)

Property tribunal chamber president Siobhan McGrath says Richard Davidoff has two other section 24 court appointments – ‘as far as I can ascertain’ – and proposes a new practice code to encourage section 24 appointees to behave

Leaseholder and ex-Number 10 advisor to David Cameron issues call for reform of property managers after Richard Davidoff case

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