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Blatant pro-landlord loophole left in the Ground Rent Bill. Is this the way leasehold ‘reforms’ will go?

Building Safety Bill: Made by officials. By themselves. Talking to themselves. Will the cogs turn?

Building Safety Bill is a device for which the batteries aren’t included. It could be improved, if only officials would listen …

Justin Madders MP asks why Redrow is selling freeholds at Ledsham Garden Village for £4,000 when they were £6,500. And what about those who paid too much?

LKP rejects threat of defamation proceedings from Canonbury Management

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

National Leasehold Campaign email dump urges developers to settle up like Aviva and Persimmon have done with CMA

And so the building safety crisis lurches towards mass forfeitures …

LKP reverses forfeiture of suicide’s flat securing family £40,000

CMA forces Aviva to re-set rip-off doubling ground rents to what they were when homes were first bought …

Make sure ground rents are dead and buried by improving the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill

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

Bottomley calls on Boris Johnson to hold fire safety funding summit

Inside job goons found guilty of stealing park home of Sonia McColl OBE

Saturday 5 June: Cladding leaseholders to demonstrate outside sales suites of house builders

Analysis of where next with the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill

Freeholders and housebuilders have plucked the leasehold golden goose, and now the path is clear for commonhold

House of Lords turns into the House of Serfs to attack the iniquity of leasehold ground rents

The Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill: opportunities and challenges

Government announces Commonhold Council to prevent ‘hidden costs’ and ‘the egregious practices currently seen in some leaseholds’

Trial for two accused of stealing the home of park homes campaigner Sonia McColl OBE

Leaseholders defeat landlord trying to dodge consultation over a section 20 dispute in Court of Appeal

Enough is enough! Ballymore must pay!

If government’s is tempted to dither over banning new ground rents, then this woman’s £1m a year for a small flat should clinch it …

Scourge of RTMs, Israel Moskovitz sits as a director … of a residents’ management company in Sunderland

Rendall and Rittner … no insurance commissions, but it owns an offshore ‘captive’ insurance company making a 40% profit on leaseholders’ premiums

LKP to monitor bank exposure as cladding flats sell to cash buyers in auctions

Fire Safety Bill clears Parliament. So, what’s next?

Communities Select Committee calls on government to scrap cladding loan scheme and establish a ‘Comprehensive Building Safety Fund’

Fire Safety Bill ricochets around Parliament as 31 Conservative MPs again vote against the government

Lords push government’s Fire Safety Bill to the edge as parliamentary session nears end …

Should the buyer beware? Leaseholders and fire safety remediation costs

Government’s use of extra-statutory powers has made the cladding crisis far worse than in Australia (or possibly Scotland), writes LKP trustee