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You need professional property managers to deal with fire safety in high-rises, says FirstPort CEO Nigel Howell

Praise for Barratt’s – and LKP – from Citiscape leaseholders

Galliard Homes ‘needs to take responsibility for what it has built’

Taxpayers face £85,000 loss as Homes England accepts leaseholder can pay back loan on flat blighted by Grenfell cladding

Will Law Commission bring in the ‘seismic changes’ that leasehold needs?

The Sun / The Times urge caution over leasehold purchases, while The Times / Guardian / Mail report Barratt paying out £2m at Citiscape

Sesame Apartments: Yet another anonymous Long Harbour freeholder demanding £2.2 million over Grenfell cladding

Barratt pays out to remove Grenfell cladding at Citiscape

Complain to Advertising Standards Authority over ‘virtual freehold’ and ‘home ownership’ when the offer is leasehold tenancy

Law Commission sets out how it hopes to create a better deal for leaseholders – and look at alternatives

Could paying off Help To Buy loans on blighted homes force government to act over Grenfell cladding … and doubling ground rents?

McCarthy and Stone: Ground rents are not the future of retirement housing

Martin Boyd should be the chair of LEASE

LEASE chair Roger Southam resigns

Sky told ground rent scams were ‘a bit more cash’ for beleaguered housebuilders

Countryside Properties plc and Long Harbour to offer deal to end ground rent scam at Silver Point

Sajid Javid tells BBC why his leasehold and lettings regulator is a good idea

Government announces regulator to protect leaseholders and their £4 billion in service charges

National Leasehold Campaign tells Roger Southam to resign from LEASE

Housebuilders ground rent scandal compo schemes ‘must go further and faster’, says housing minister

Oxford Council leaseholders have repair bills slashed from £50,000 to under £4,000

Leaseholders are apathetic, apart from the Dad’s Army figures running RTMs and RMCs, says the sector

RICS fines Warwick Estates £20,000 over lift shaft fatality – after ARMA ‘blocked its regulator from hearing the case’

National Trust abandons ground rent rises of up to £8,000 a year for its rural leaseholders

£19,200 a year ground rents at Crawford Building are not our problem, says Redrow

Sajid Javid calls for Grenfell cladding round table with developers and freeholders … and LKP will be invited

Full marks to Rynew for holding awards for people who have actually helped leaseholders. Well, it’s a novelty!

House of Commons briefing to MPs on Grenfell Cladding: contact LKP

Tchenguiz, Astor and offshore freeholders like Abacus Land 4 Limited should PUBLICLY meet over Grenfell cladding, MPs told

Wellcome Trust spends £114,000 on lawyers to defeat Onslow Square leaseholder in £6,000 dispute

RTM champions Urban Owners bought by Warwick Estates

Tribunal rules Citiscape leaseholders must pay to remove Grenfell cladding. Will this mean some lose their homes?

LEASE chair Roger Southam launched complaint to Parliamentary Standards Commissioner against Sir Peter Bottomley and Jim Fitzpatrick (and LKP, naturally enough)