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Nationwide is the mortgage lender most nervy about ground rents, suggests survey by National Leasehold Campaign

LKP’s guide for leaseholders to respond to government’s proposed permitted insurance fees: the good and not so good

Davidoff libel action against ex-Number 10 policy advisor collapses

Why is the church blind to the injustices of leasehold?

Government seeks £20.5 million off John Christodoulou for Canary Riverside building safety works, reports FT

More than six years after Grenfell and 15 months after the Building Safety Act, how does Labour Wales compare with Tory Westminster over fixing badly built blocks of flats?

Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill: the most important part of the enfranchisement bit is missing

Libel lawyers for Richard Davidoff, of ABC Estates, fail to get Google to hand over online reviewers’ identities

Don’t extend your lease if that puts you on the hook for building safety bills (this applies to non-highrises, too)

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

Spare a thought for the forgotten Welsh building safety cladding victims

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

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

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

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

Leasehold insurance: 17 years of FCA regulatory failure

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

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

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

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

Privatising housing estates: what’s the problem?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 …