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Fewer leaseholders’ rights would help make buildings safe, L&Q tells MPs

Barking Riverside fire survivors round on secretive freeholder Adriatic Land, reports BBC R4

Apsana Begum takes to Zoom to help trapped Poplar and Limehouse cladding victims

Pincher defends absent Jenrick in bad tempered Commons clash over Richard Desmond £1bn planning scandal

‘Years’ to sign off Peabody flats as safe, BBC is told. That means no one is able to sell up and leave …

Top civil servant warns Robert Jenrick over £1bn cladding bailout … promises post-Grenfell blame game won’t happen again

Brindley House cladding leaseholders face eviction, reports BBC R4 You and Yours

Jenrick tells Bottomley: Bill to set new ground rents at peppercorn coming ‘shortly’

Academic bars Oxford City Council from entering his flat to finish major works

Commons nods through Fire Safety Bill, amid plenty of grumbling by veteran MPs from all parties

Government may help over waking watch bills

Mike Amesbury: Young, highly mortgaged, often shared owners, with now uncertain employment … are facing homelessness and ruin over cladding

Milton Keynes cracks down on ‘fleecehold’ scams by housebuilders

Please sort out ‘waking watch’ yourselves owing to coronavirus, says freeholder of Circle 109, Liverpool

Get commonhold done, London Assembly tells government

The show must go on with Grenfell ACM cladding removal, says government … as the fire test it didn’t want YOU to see reveals HPL panels were lethal all along

Coronavirus drags property tribunal into a new tech world with hearings via Skype

Coronavirus lockdown should not stop work on cladding, government told

Rip-off retirement leasehold fees give Corrie’s Ken Barlow a feast of plot lines. Let’s hope he leads a right to manage rebellion …

The Times reports criticisms of Jenrick’s two-storey planning windfall to what he called ‘egregious’ freeholders

Here’s commonhold, but it won’t be mandatory. Shula Rich recalls the compromises behind the 2002 Act

ARMA on commonhold: Falling leasehold values. Zombie apartment blocks. Plenty of scrapping. Lack of interest. But good business for professional managers …

Some in leasehold sector declined to co-operate with mis-selling investigation, says CMA

Blessed is the sinner that repenteth … former housing minister Heather Wheeler joins APPG to reform leasehold

Cladding leaseholders rejoice after Robert Jenrick secures £1bn in Budget … on top of £400m already pledged

Huawei rebel MPs nearly defeat government over Bill promising faster broadband for leaseholders

Israel Moskovitz demand for £22,170 admin charges reduced to £300 in ‘colossal waste of court’s time’

Influential Tory MP Neil O’Brien calls developers and managing agents ‘the timeshare salesmen and dodgy wheel-clampers of our generation’

Lords hear how LKP warned government over ground rents and leasehold houses … in 2015

LKP joins ARMA initiative to urge chancellor to fund re-cladding bills set to ruin 500,000 leaseholders

‘Peppercorn’ ground rents on Help To Buy properties … from next year

MPs turn the heat on government over cladding scandal … on the day before two housing ministers were given the chop

Welsh government grapples with ‘fleecehold’ woes, issues call for evidence closing April 3