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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

Northern mayors and MPs to join cladding demo outside Parliament on February 25

Corrie’s Ken Barlow warned against buying ‘red flags’ leasehold flat on upmarket retirement site

Right-to-buy owners are also being ripped off by the leasehold system, The Guardian reports

Help us get government to honour its pledge that leaseholders won’t be paying to remove cladding, says Hilary Benn

Getting Cayman Islands freeholders to help with cladding crisis is an additional difficulty, says UK’s top fire chief

LKP trustees Katie Kendrick and Louie Burns tell Sky News and BBC R4 MoneyBox of ‘David and Goliath’ fight for freeholds

Sector announces new building safety test for leasehold blocks to ‘keep the high-rise property market flowing’

Leaseholders and freeholder of evacuated Manchester block win £10.8m insurer payout for ‘serious defects’

Leaseholder of £3m pad in central London demands £100 a day off Gerald Ronson for no internet

Cladding victims now being hit by insurance hikes, reports BBC R4 You and Yours

Grenfell United link up with leaseholder groups to protest cladding crisis and warn next government of Grenfell 2

Martin Lewis, the Money Saving Expert, challenges party leaders over leasehold scandal

Taxpayers funding two leasehold houses a day in 2019 through Help To Buy … despite government saying THREE times they should be banned

Retirement housebuilders will only reform when they are forced to do so, Lord Best tells property conference