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An open letter to Robert Jenrick: the costs of delayed leasehold reform

Long Harbour’s Adriatic Land backs leaseholders at Skyline Central 1 to get public money for HPL removal

Top civil servant warns Robert Jenrick over £1bn cladding bailout … promises post-Grenfell blame game won’t happen again

Has Jenrick been saved by the Cummings furore for rushing through approval of 1,500 home Docklands scheme that would have handed £40m to former publisher Richard Desmond?

Telegraph says buy Ground Rents Income Fund plc, which has fallen 31.6% and lost court action over Beetham Tower

Brindley House cladding leaseholders face eviction, reports BBC R4 You and Yours

Jenrick tells Bottomley: Bill to set new ground rents at peppercorn coming ‘shortly’

RMG’s unexplained blunder increased pensioners’ ground rents by 59%, saying it was ‘in line with RPI’

Sir Bob Neill becomes cladding chair at APPG

Greenhalgh to Communities Select Committee: 1,700 non-ACM cladding blocks at high risk and some waking watch costs are ‘usurious’

Academic bars Oxford City Council from entering his flat to finish major works

Ever lengthening queue of desperate leaseholders now includes investors in student flats at Central Park Towers

Cladding leaseholders issue united video appeal to demand government help

Has Coronavirus caused collapse in service charge receipts? Not yet, says ARMA, but we will see in September …

Commons nods through Fire Safety Bill, amid plenty of grumbling by veteran MPs from all parties

19kg cylinder of propane gas found in roof of fire-stricken Samuel Garside House, says report

Government may help over waking watch bills

Section 20B: Joseph and Esther Gurvits too late to get £3,387 service charges after an RTM

Two charged with theft of mobile home of Sonia McColl OBE

John Christodoulou side-steps £4m ‘dou-dou’ at Beetham Tower, where leaseholders face bills of £40,000 each as the works begin

Cladding remediation to restart despite pandemic

Post-Grenfell fire safety regime brings closer scrutiny of building owners … even shadey freeholders anonymously lurking in sunny tax havens

Mike Amesbury: Young, highly mortgaged, often shared owners, with now uncertain employment … are facing homelessness and ruin over cladding

Milton Keynes cracks down on ‘fleecehold’ scams by housebuilders

APPG gains more new members

Bristol leaseholders fail to win freeholds to their homes as one was not a house, in Covid-19 online court case

Please sort out ‘waking watch’ yourselves owing to coronavirus, says freeholder of Circle 109, Liverpool

Jenrick: ‘We owe it to Grenfell community to get building safety right’

Get commonhold done, London Assembly tells government

The show must go on with Grenfell ACM cladding removal, says government … as the fire test it didn’t want YOU to see reveals HPL panels were lethal all along

A2 Dominion to dump 100% cladding costs on to 25% shared owners at City Wharf Hoxton

Coronavirus drags property tribunal into a new tech world with hearings via Skype

90-day reprieve on forfeiture