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What is the point of this government, asks Lisa Nandy as it wriggles over promised leasehold reforms

Black Friday for FirstPort: ALL leaseholders at St David’s Square to share £479,000 service charge triumph. And £55,000 in energy subsidies to be paid up

Net Zero is going to be difficult throughout the world … but with leasehold tenure, next to impossible

We just made it up: landlord pays back £120,000 for intercom costs at St David’s Square that it cannot account for (and is leased for eternity)

Investors see gold in retirement housing, but oldies have taken a look and remain wary … Brighter developers are pushing for change

Dudley Joiner, boss of the Right To Manage Federation, banned from being a company director – for the second time

Leasehold reforms this parliamentary session, says minister

Bottomley to raise with Churchill Retirement its decision to continue charging ground rents

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

FCA finds ‘significant shortcomings’ in leasehold insurance. While Michael Gove urges it to look further

Interview with Lord Greenhalgh: I don’t think the leasehold reforms will be in the King’s Speech

RTMs and RMCs must check management contracts to avoid managing agents making expensive fire safety decisions with no oversight

Landlord Malcolm Digby Warner, of Pediment Properties: Sorry I did not ask for ground rent for five years, but pay up now, along with £785.82 in interest I lost because of my carelessness – or I will forfeit the lease!

Nigel Glen decamps to FirstPort, abandoning the ‘Property Institute’ (ARMA, IRPM)

Cladding leaseholder Arjun Batish, with no legal training, fights £200,000 fire safety bills – and wins

Victory over FirstPort at St David’s Square with £100,000s to be re-payed to leaseholders over insurance and leasing of ancient door entry system

Bungling operations manager and directors at retirement site Dibleys Heritage signed £66,000 a year energy deal incorrectly – and have cost leaseholders £40,000 in legal fees

Galliard and Lendlease were quick to get leaseholders on the hook for building safety bills, now they won’t sign Michael Gove’s agreement to pay up

FirstPort blows a fuse: Why are energy subsidies absent from the £265,784 electricity bills – an increase of 154% – at St David’s Square, tribunal is asked

Property rip-off ‘Whack-a-mole’: Now it’s your chance to tell CMA about fleecehold

You could not make it up: Estates and Management faces strike-off over late accounts!

Dismal picture of leasehold emerges from MPs’ debate. But no government commitment on reforms

MPs briefing: Stop trying to reform leasehold. Just bring it to an end, and join the rest of the world

New Estate Management thrown out of Property Ombudsman for not paying £1,000 award

Deadline today for freeholders to declare offshore beneficial ownership

Mr Spender goes to war over St David’s Square service charges … and landlord caves in over more than £100,000 buildings insurance commissions on eve of tribunal

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

After seven efforts at reform – with more on the way – Sections 21 and 22 of Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 are still flawed service charge protections

Why not impose a revived Florrie’s Law cap on council major works rather than see leaseholders made homeless?

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

Railpen: We don’t want to invest in ground rents anymore because ‘there is a consumer on the far end’

£100k major works bills wipe out council leaseholders. But why are 40% of Right To Buy homes now owned by investors?