Harry Scoffin

Conservatives and RICS kicked back at insurance kickbacks in 2006. Unfortunately, they did nothing about it – and here we are

Note to Mr Gove: FSA was warning of ‘reputational risk’ in not cracking down on secret leasehold insurance commissions 17 years ago!

MPs join leaseholders at protest to ensure no one is left facing building safety cash calls

Will government dump Dame Judith Hackitt’s £60,000 a year building safety managers job creation scheme?

Leaseholders helped over building safety crisis is now a ‘bizarre lucky dip’, say MPs

After cladding leaseholders issue damning report into housing associations’ response, housing minister Lord Greenhalgh lashes out at ‘sanctity of social housing providers that have built rubbish’

As new ground rents ban gets Queen’s assent, LKP urges leaseholders to echo calls to action in its submission to government consultation on the next reforms …

Russian tanks on the move …. but already flat owners face 500% energy bill increases with no price cap protection – all because blocks are commercial buildings. For the freeholders’ convenience, of course

Settlers Court: for the first time the Supreme Court considers right to manage. The result? Leaseholders get a battering over communal area management

Vicky Pollard property tribunal: yes, but … no, but … Yes, you have been ripped off over insurance. But no, we can’t do anything about it

Data tells us sprinklers work, waking watch doesn’t, and freehold punters aren’t picking up the tab, Martin Boyd tells ODI

Hackitt and Knight back dumping unregulated sector-insider ‘building safety managers’ onto leaseholders at £60,000 a year, MPs told

Lobbying alert: Theresa Villiers MP speaks up for ground rents, freehold owners and making sure marriage value still pays off for freehold investors

LKP accredited managing agent Premier Block Management ‘opens Pandora’s box’ by inviting critical social media reviews

Financial Conduct Authority under pressure to force open secretive insurance commissions, so leaseholders can see what they are paying for

Israel Moskovitz’s bid to monetise squalid car park back-fires and may cost him over £100,000 at tribunal

Demonstrations and going to the press – and involving LKP – improved our situation hugely, say Ballymore leaseholders

Division as London Assembly opposition urges Sadiq Khan to be tougher on housebuilders over cladding

Tower Hamlets leaseholders find their voice, host free building safety conference with LKP on June 15

Florrie’s Law fails again as Haringey council dumps £100,000 bills on leaseholders in the midst of the Covid-19 disaster

Self-interested freeholders and property managers chorus: ‘taxpayer must pay over cladding’ … which, as it happens, leaves their income streams untouched

‘Get out of your ivory tower’: Tory MP turns on Jenrick over ‘shocking betrayal’ of cladding leaseholders

Dame Judith Hackitt’s uninterest in leasehold tenure is like ‘wanting to build cars with no idea how they are driven’, says LKP

Sector says ‘no, thanks’ to controversial Building Safety Bill

England’s cladding leaseholders could end up with equity stripped out of their homes, warns Welsh minister

Public Accounts Committee issues damning verdict on MHCLG’s handling of the cladding crisis

Housing associations furious at government’s 10-year repair-free offer to new shared owners

‘Everybody must call on government, whoever you vote for’ to resolve cladding crisis, says Starmer

Lords from all parties trash government’s multi-billion pound give-away to freehold owners

Jenrick’s £12bn home-building media fanfare falls flat as LBC radio returns to the cladding scandal

Housing Ombudsman names and shames social landlords ‘consistently wrong’ with leaseholders and shared owners

42 MPs back Starmer’s attempt to block rooftop planning give-away to freeholders

Land Registry publishes new data on leasehold and fleecehold deals to help buyers and nudge Rightmove