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Government can’t lend cash to Grenfell cladding sites until someone agrees to pay it back, says LKP

Grenfell cladding debate: Who thinks offshore freeholders will pay (apart from government ministers)?

Labour deputy Tom Watson joins APPG on leasehold reform – but select committee STILL won’t call in the housebuilders

‘Fleecehold’ petition launched to stop housebuilders creating YET ANOTHER revenue stream from their customers

The move to commonhold begins

Martin Paine sells on Blythe Court, where ground rents reach £8,000 a year

New Housing Minister hits the ground running

(Galliard v NHBC v the Government v Cladding suppliers) v the Leaseholders

FT looks at financial consequence to freehold speculators of #leaseholdscandal

Grenfell cladding crisis prompts the question: what are freeholders actually for?

Fractures in ARMA’s efforts to regulate the leasehold property management sector

Pinsent Masons believes ban on ‘almost all’ new leasehold houses to have retrospective effect

Mail and Telegraph pile on the misery for Persimmon’s Jeffrey Fairburn (Good, says LKP, he deserves it)

APPG to protect park home owners has as secretariat the site owners’ own trade body!

Hilary Benn rounds on Miller Homes in Leeds constituency

‘Our David Wilson Homes leasehold house means we don’t own it, or the land, pay ground rent and consent fees to anonymous speculators in freeholds, often based offshore,’ Cheshire woman tells local paper

FirstPort Retirement is allowed into ARMA

Newcastle leasehold house owners stuff attempt by Barratt and Keepmoat to sell their freeholds

Justin Madders delays Leasehold Reform Bill and calls on the Government to provide justice for leaseholders

Leaseholders face £19m to £40m Grenfell cladding bills at Galliard Homes’ New Capital Quay

Sonia McColl appeal raises £13,000

Fresh building is to pay £100,000 for fire marshals … with more Grenfell bills to come

Bottomley attacks ‘uncivilised extortion’ of lease extension racket in Mortgage Solutions

ARCO snubs McCarthy and Stone / Churchill by saying there is no need for ground rents

National Leasehold Campaign tops 10,000 members on its first anniversary

Court of Appeal turns down Mundy case – unanimously

Guardian reports misery of leasehold home owners trapped by John Lewis Partnership Pension Trust – and the Mail, Sun, Mirror and Lad Bible (any we have missed?)

Court of Appeal ruling on Mundy case’s ‘inconvenient truth’ expected on Wednesday

Ground rent speculator Robert Steinhouse cuts and runs from Nova House, but who pays £4m Grenfell bill?

Telegraph reports rip-off leasehold sales packs

John Healey says it’s ‘wrong’ for leaseholders to have to pay to remove Grenfell cladding

Dominic Raab: freeze doubling ground rents and get housebuilders to offer proper redress, says National Leasehold Campaign

Tchenguiz / FirstPort in court to dump £2m Grenfell costs on Citiscape leaseholders – despite Sajid Javid plea