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

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Justin Madders MP, Lisa Nandy, Sir Peter Bottomley

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

Category: FirstPort, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Emeria, FirstPort, Kully Sahdra, Liam Spender, St David's Square

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

Category: APPG, Latest News, NewsTag: Condominiums, Evan McKenzie, Michael Teys, Net Zero, Ross Clark, Strata title

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)

Category: FirstPort, JB Leitch, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Countryside Communications, First-tier Tribunal, FirstPort, FIT Nominee 2 Limited, FIT Nominee Limited, JB Leitch, Liam Spender, NatWest Group plc, St David's Square

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

Category: APPG, Latest News, News, RetirementTag: ARCO, Ben Rosewall, Bob Bessell, Dan Healy, David Fothergill, Legal and General, Local Government Association, Melanie Gowers, Michael Voges, Pauline Jones, Retirement Security Limited, Sebastian O’Kelly

Dudley Joiner

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

Category: Latest News, News, Quadrangle House, Right To Manage Federation, RTMTag: Dudley Joiner, Quadrangle House, Right To Manage Federation

Leasehold reforms this parliamentary session, says minister

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Baroness Altmann, Baroness Scott of Bybrook, Lord Kennedy of Southwark, Lord Young of Cookham

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

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, RetirementTag: Churchill Retirement Living, Ground rents, Housing Today, React News, Spencer McCarthy

Lee Rowley

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

Category: Latest News, Lease Extension, NewsTag: ALEP, Building Safety Act, Enfranchisement, Lord Greenhalgh

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

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: Financial Conduct Authority, Michael Gove

Lord Greenhalgh

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

Category: Commonhold, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Building Safety Act, Commonhold, Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act, Lord Greenhalgh

Shula Rich commonhold

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

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: Fire doors, Fire safety, Martin Boyd, Shula Rich

Malcolm Digby Warner

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!

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: Malcolm Digby Warner, Pediment Properties Limited, Ruth Archer, Thangham Debbonaire MP

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

Category: ARMA, IRPM, Latest News, NewsTag: ARMA, Emeria, FirstPort, IRPM, Nigel Glen, Property Institute

Inspired Sutton

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

Category: Latest News, News, PressTag: Arjun Batish, Inspired Asset Management, Inspired Sutton, Judge Timothy Powell, Ruth Bloomfield, Siobhan McGrath, The Times

St David's Square

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

Category: FirstPort, Latest News, Liam Spender, News, Property tribunalTag: FirstPort, Liam Spender, St David's Square

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

Category: Latest News, News, RetirementTag: Charles Knapper, David Johnston MP, Dibleys Heritage, RWK Goodman, Section 20

Building Safety Bill

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

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Abbey Developments, Avant, Ballymore, Dandara, Emerson Group (Jones Homes), Galliard, Inland Homes, Lendlease, London Square, Michael Gove, Rydon Homes, Telford Homes

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

Category: FirstPort, Latest News, News, Property tribunalTag: Energy Bill Relief Scheme, FirstPort, JB Leitch, Judge Vance, Kully Sahdra, Liam Spender, Miriam Seifert, St David's Square

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

Category: Fleecehold, Latest News, NewsTag: Andy Carter MP, CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, Fleecehold, Greenbelt Group Limited, Justin Madders MP, Professor Susan Bright, Steinbeck Grange, Welsh Government

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

Category: Latest News, News, TchenguizTag: Estates and Management, JB Leitch, Vincent Tchenguiz

Lee Rowley

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

Category: Fleecehold, Justin Madders MP, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: ABC Estates, Andy Carter MP, Apsana Begum MP, Barry Gardiner MP, Competition and Markets Authority, Financial Conduct Authority, FirstPort, Fleecehold, Florence Eshalomi MP, Hallmark Premier Estates, Justin Madders MP, Lee Rowley MP, Matthew Pennycook, Matthew Pennycook MP, Mike Amesbury MP, Munira Wilson MP, Nigel Wilkins, Sir Peter Bottomley, Steinbeck Grange, Stephen McPartland MP

Barry Gardner

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

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Justin Madders MP

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

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: Adam New, IRPM, New Estate Management, The Property Ombudsman

Deadline today for freeholders to declare offshore beneficial ownership

Category: Latest News, News, William Waldorf AstorTag: Abacus Land, Abacus Land 4 Limited, Armalytix, Heysmoor Heights, Long Harbour, Mike Ward, Putin, Register of Overseas Entities

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

Category: FirstPort, JB Leitch, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Berkeley, Countryside Contracts, FirstPort, FIT Nominee 2 Limited, FIT Nominee Limited, JB Leitch, Liam Spender, NatWest Group plc, RBS, St David's Square

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

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

Category: APPG, Latest News, News, Property tribunalTag: Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, Rawdon Crozier, Sections 21 and 22

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

Category: Latest News, Local authority leasehold, News, PressTag: BBC, Florrie's law, Islington, Local authority leasehold, The Guardian, Thurrock

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

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

Category: Latest News, News

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

Category: Latest News, Local authority leasehold, News, PressTag: Local authority leasehold, Right to Buy, Tom Copley

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