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Michael Gove’s admission today that regulation failures in part caused Grenfell clears path to final resolution of the building safety crisis

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, PressTag: Cladding scandal, Dame Judith Hackitt, Dean Buckner, Grenfell cladding, Health and Safety Executive, Lakanal House, Liam Spender, Lucy Brown-Cortes, Michael Gove, Ronnie King OBE, Sir David Amess, The Sunday Times, Welsh Government

Spare a thought for the forgotten Welsh building safety cladding victims

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Welsh Cladiators, Welsh Government

John Christodoulou ‘lamentable’ lack of transparency over excessive £1.6m insurance costs at Canary Riverside

Category: Canary Riverside, Insurance, John Christodoulou, Latest News, NewsTag: Angie Jezard, Canary Riverside, Canary Riverside Estate Management Limited, Financial Conduct Authority, Financial Times, John Christodoulou, Justin Bates, Reich, Westminster Management Services, Yianis Group

LKP’s response to the Financial Conduct Authority report on leasehold buildings insurance

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: FCA, Financial Conduct Authority, Insurance

St David's Square

FirstPort jacks up accounting fees at St David’s Square by 80% … and then bodges accounts, leaving leaseholders overcharged by more than £17,500

Category: JB Leitch, Latest News, NewsTag: Alpha Real Capital LLP, ARC Time Freehold Income, ARMA, BDO, Berkeley St George, Building safety fund, Consensus Business Group, Countryside Communications, FirstPort, Freehold Managers, IRPM, JB Leitch, Mick Platt, Residential Freehold Association, St David's Square, Wallace Partnership Group, William Kenneth Procter

Israel Moskovitz loses appeal on right to charge £36 a pop for collecting his ground rents

Category: Israel Moskovitz, Justin Bates, Latest News, Moskovitz / Gurvits, NewsTag: Avon Freeholds, Canary Riverside, Israel Moskovitz, John Christodoulou, Joseph Gurvits, Justin Bates, Rebecca Cattermole, West India Quay

Leasehold insurance: 17 years of FCA regulatory failure

Category: Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: Financial Conduct Authority, Insurance

French resi service group Emeria clears out FirstPort management in take-over

Category: Latest News, News, TchenguizTag: Caoimhe McKearney, E&M Estates, Emperia, FirstPort, Freehold Managers, JB Leitch, Mick Platt, Nigel Howell, Residential Freehold Association, Simon Allison, St David's Square, Tchenguiz Family Trust, Vincent Tchenguiz

Greenhalgh’s farewell to APPG: ‘I have a commonhold flat and there is nothing to fear its widespread adoption to replace leasehold’

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: APPG, Baroness Claire Fox of Buckley, Boris Johnson, Cath Williams, Charles Roe, Co-propriétaires, Commonhold, Dr Jonathan Evans, Harry Scoffin, Justin Madders MP, Katherine O'Riordan, Katie Kendrick, Law Commission, Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill, Liam Spender, Lord Blencathra, Lord Greenhalgh, Lord Truscott, Lord Young of Cookham, Louie Burns, Martin Boyd, Martina Lees, Meg Hillier MP, Michael Gove, Professor Nick Hopkins, UK Finance

Labour’s Lisa Nandy taunts Tories over ‘feudal’ leaseholds. Meanwhile, PM channels Thatcher to revive enfranchisement plans

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: 25% rule, Benefits to bricks, Boris Johnson, CapX, Centrepoint, Commonhold, Crosby Textor, David Canzini, Eddie Hughes MP, Grenfell, Harry Scoffin, Leasehold enfranchisement, Lisa Nandy, London Playbook, Margaret Thatcher, Matthew Pennycook MP, Michael Gove, Mixed-use sites, Neil Gerrard, Right to Buy, Sir Lynton Crosby, Sir Peter Bottomley, Tulip Siddiq MP

Tory Treasurer Lord Leigh and Priti Patel’s family accused of gaming the opportunities of leasehold

Category: Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: Andrew Ellson, Anjana Patel, CMA, Daily Mirror, David Cameron, Dennis Reed Limited, Dependable Investments Limited, FCA, First-tier Tribunal, Harry Scoffin, Insurance, Insurance scams, Lord Leigh of Hurley, Martin Boyd, Michael Gove, Michael Nock, Neil Solanki, Priti Patel, Property tribunal, Sushil Patel, The Times, Trevor Leigh

Privatising housing estates: what’s the problem?

Category: Fleecehold, Latest News, NewsTag: Commonhold, Fleecehold, Hampstead Garden Suburb, Helen Goodman MP, Professor Susan Bright, Rentcharge, Steinbeck Grange, Welsh Government

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

Category: Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: ARMA, Chainbow, Christos Lazari, Estates Gazette, FCA, Graham Chase, Harry Scoffin, ICOBS, Lazari Investments Limited, Lord Barker of Battle, Lucy Barnard, Michael Gove, Peter Bill, Peter Rochford, Rendall and Rittner, RICS, Robert Bryant-Pearson, Roger Southam, Sir Terence Etherton, Tchenguiz Family Trust, Theresa Villiers MP, Vincent Tchenguiz

ABC Estates

Two former employees of ABC Estates ‘face £60,000 each in costs after libel claim, and must apologise in open court’

Category: Latest News, News, Richard DavidoffTag: ABC Estates, Norwich Pharmacal, Richard Davidoff, Sir Peter Bottomley

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

Category: Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: Andrea Coscelli, ARMA, Bob Blackman MP, Clive Briualt, CMA, FCA, Federation of Private Residents Associations, Harry Scoffin, ICOBS, Insurance scams, Insurance Times, John McDonnell, John Prescott, LEASE, Leasehold Advisory Service, Lord Newby, Martin Boyd, Matt Brewis, Michael Gove, OFT, Rabina Khan, Sarah Olney MP, Sir Peter Bottomley

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

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Baroness Claire Fox of Buckley, Bob Blackman MP, Cath Williams, Cladding scandal, Clive Betts MP, Daisy Cooper MP, End Our Cladding Scandal, Flo Eshalomi MP, Harry Scoffin, Hilary Benn MP, Iain Duncan Smith, Justin Madders MP, Katie Kendrick, Liam Spender, Marsha de Cordova MP, Matthew Pennycook, National Leasehold Campaign, Rabina Khan, Ritu Saha, Rushanara Ali MP, Sir Ed Davey, Sir Mike Penning, Sir Peter Bottomley, Stephen McPartland MP, Stuart Andrew, Ted Baillieu, UK Cladding Action Group, UKCAG

JB Leitch

Leasehold debt collector JB Leitch received £470,000 furlough, and paid out a £500,000 dividend to owners

Category: JB Leitch, Latest News, NewsTag: Hastenhome Property, JB Leitch, Justin Madders MP, Stiles Developments Limited, Tiny Pig

Platinum Skies

Retirement housebuilder Platinum Skies breached shared ownership rules with onerous ‘staircasing’ charges in the lease

Category: Latest News, News, Retirement, Shared ownershipTag: Andrew Ellson, ARCO, Bruce Moore, Conor Burns MP, Housing 21, John Beesley, Liam Spender, Lord Fink, Michael Voges, Platinum Skies, Sebastian O’Kelly, Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP, Sir Peter Bottomley, The Times

Insurance insiders call for an end to secretive leasehold insurance commissions following Canary Riverside ruling

Category: Canary Riverside, Insurance, John Christodoulou, Latest News, NewsTag: Branko, Branko Bjelobaba, Canary Riverside, Canary Riverside Estate Management Limited, CMA, Create Solutions, Dart Compliance, FCA, Insurance, Insurance Age, Insurance scams, Insurance Times, James Dart, John Christodoulou, Judge Amran Vance, Judge Timothy Powell, Michael Gove, Mike Cranny, Nick Symes, Nikhil Rathi, Octagon Overseas Limited, Reich, West India Quay, Yianis Group

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

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Baroness Claire Fox of Buckley, Baroness Kath Pinnock, Building Safety Bill, Building safety managers, Building safety reform, Dame Judith Hackitt, Harry Scoffin, Liam Spender, Lord Best, Lord Greenhalgh, Lord Thurlow, Martin Boyd, Rabina Khan, Ritu Saha, Sir Ken Knight, UK Cladding Action Group, UKCAG

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

Category: Cladding scandal, Communities Select Committee, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: ACM, Cladding insurance, Cladding scandal, Clive Betts MP, Communities Select Committee, Eric Pickles, EWS1, Florrie's law, Harry Scoffin, Housing and Communities Select Committee, Lord Young of Cookham, Michael Gove, NHBC, PAS 9980, Reform Party, Richard Tice

John Christodoulou fails to dump £355,000 gym debt onto the Canary Riverside leaseholders. Insurance commissions to be disclosed. And judge criticises his ‘extremely unattractive’ approach to tribunal

Category: John Christodoulou, Latest News, NewsTag: Alan Coates, Canary Riverside, Canary Riverside Estate Management Limited, CMA, Daniel Dovar, FCA, First-tier Tribunal, Insurance, John Christodoulou, Jonathan Upton, Judge Martin Rodger QC, Justin Bates, Octagon Overseas Limited, Parkgate Aspen, Philip Rainey QC, Property tribunal, Reich, Sol Unsdorfer, Upper-tier Tribunal, West India Quay, Yianis Group

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’

Category: Cladding scandal, Housing associations, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Catalyst, City Wharf Hoxton, Cladding scandal, Clarion, Harry Scoffin, Housing associations, Initial repair period, Kwajo Tweneboa, L&Q, Lord Greenhalgh, Lord Young of Cookham, Shared ownership, Short leases, sub-letting, subletting

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 …

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: 25% rule, Canary Riverside, Harry Scoffin, Law Commission, Lord Greenhalgh, Lord Randolph Churchill, Lord Young of Cookham, Michael Gove, Mixed-use sites, West India Quay

leasehold energy bills

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

Category: Ballymore, John Christodoulou, Latest News, News, West India QuayTag: Ballymore, Charrington Tower, Communal Energy Partners, Embassy Gardens, Harry Scoffin, John Christodoulou, Kate Osamor MP, New Providence Wharf, Ofgem, Pan Peninsula, West India Quay, Yianis Group

Professor Susan Bright

Making the polluter pay

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: Building Safety Bill, Michael Gove, Polluter Pays, Professor Susan Bright

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

Category: Latest News, News, Property tribunalTag: Amanda Gourlay, ARMA, FirstPort, Harry Scoffin, Justin Bates, Kimberley Ziya, Landmark Chambers, Mark Loveday, Nigel Glen, Settlers Court, Simon Allison, Virginia Quay

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

Category: Insurance, Latest News, News, Property tribunal, Richard DavidoffTag: 2 Trevor Close, Cadogan Estate, Dennis Reed & Co., Dependable Investments Limited, Eagle Star, FCA, Financial Ombudsman, First-tier Tribunal, Harry Scoffin, Insurance, Insurance scams, Jeremy Peachey, Judge JR Morris, Judge Naomi Hawkes, Judge Timothy Powell, Lord Leigh of Hurley, Mr M Cairns MCIEH, Neil Solanki, Nilesh Solanki, Pier Management, Property tribunal, Realty, Regis Group, Richard Davidoff, Siobhan McGrath, Trevor Leigh, Zurich

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

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Cladding scandal, Dame Judith Hackitt, Harry Scoffin, Martin Boyd, New Providence Wharf, NHBC, ODI, Open Data Institute, Sebastian O’Kelly, Sir Ken Knight, Sprinkler systems, Waking watch contracts

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

Category: Cladding scandal, Communities Select Committee, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: ABC Estates, Building Safety Bill, Building safety fund, Building safety managers, Building safety reform, Building safety regulator, Clive Betts MP, Communities Select Committee, conveyancing, Dame Judith Hackitt, EWS1, Grenfell cladding, Harry Scoffin, Health and Safety Executive, Lord Best, Melissa Lawford, Rachel Hopkins MP, Rendall and Rittner, Richard Davidoff, Robert Booth, RoPA, Sir Ken Knight, Sir Peter Bottomley, Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian, The Law Society

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

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Christos Lazari, Eddie Hughes MP, Ground rents, Harry Scoffin, Lazari Investments Limited, Lobbying, Marriage value, Monte Properties Limited, Theresa Villiers MP

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

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: Ballymore, Ballymore Asset Management, Feefo, FirstPort, Harry Scoffin, National Leasehold Campaign, PBM, Premier Property Management

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

Category: Ballymore, E&J Capital Partners, Insurance, Latest News, News, PressTag: Andrea Coscelli, Arthur J Gallagher, Aviva, Ballymore, Ben Chapman, Cladding insurance, Competition and Markets Authority, Countryside Properties plc, FCA, Harry Scoffin, Insurance, Insurance scams, Liberal Democrats, Lord Newby, Marsh, Persimmon, Rabina Khan, Rendall and Rittner, Sarah Olney MP, The Independent, Zurich

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