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£150m for ground rents … from a semi in Hendon

Mundy case in Court of Appeal showdown over valuation racket

Leasehold issues raised at prime minister’s questions

Minister no7 – Dominic Raab

Persimmon sold leasehold houses for £50,000 more than same-size freehold houses at Harrow View West

Housebuilders shares crash over ground rents, with McCarthy and Stone down 10%

Full government report on ‘Tackling unfair practices in the leasehold market’

Will Astor ‘tried to nobble reform of ground rents’, Daily Mail claims

Leasehold houses to be banned and future ground rents set to zero, announces Sajid Javid

Will Heysmoor Heights leaseholders lose their homes to anonymous offshore freeholder if they cannot pay Grenfell bills?

Enfranchisement, commonhold and managing agent regulation are first up for the Law Commission

Thanks LKP for raising Grenfell issues. Now we are giving yet more money to LEASE, says housing minister

Dudley Joiner’s Team Property Management made insolvent by Quadrangle House RTM

£2,000 sublet demand to frail pensioner needing care from freeholder Silhill Investments Limited (plus £375 to Pennycuik Collins)

APPG, December 6: Park home banditry; Law Commission; Planners barring leasehold houses; London deputy mayor; gargantuan Grenfell bills for leaseholders

Appeal: Home for Sonia McColl OBE

Commons debate on leasehold December 21

‘Gargantuan’ Grenfell cladding bills from Astor and Tchenguiz on sites such as New Festival Quarter, The Times reveals today

Taylor Wimpey passed management at Surbiton Plaza II to commercial operator ‘to save customers the administrative burden’ (of being in charge of their own money)

DCLG urged to inform leaseholders over Grenfell cladding bills … and stop snubbing LKP

DCLG shakes up leasehold team … but what about Southam, LEASE and the Mundy case, asks Bottomley

LKP prods media to cover theft of Sonia McColl OBE’s park home

Park Home champion Sonia McColl OBE has her mobile home stolen … ‘after death threats’

Views of Tory MP Crispin Blunt: Government should ‘nullify’ ground rents. End ‘feudal’ leasehold. Bring in commonhold. And stop developers’ and solicitors’ ‘unconscionable’ cheating of the naïve

Barclays turns down mortgage on flat where ground rent doubles every 25 years

Pathetic efforts by plc housebuilders to address ground rent scandal exposed on TV

We are dissatisfied with the running of LEASE, APPG chairs tells housing minister

Sebastian O’Kelly addresses retirement property managers. Were you lynched? No, they agreed: leasehold ‘granny flats’ have no future

Blenheim Centre flat owners to be spared £20,000-30,000 each on Grenfell cladding bill, Legal & General tells LKP

Why has it taken so long to regulate the leasehold sector?

A second backbench debate on leasehold issues

Leasehold houses have been sold for more than freehold ones, reports Telegraph

Change your doubling ground rents before the John Lewis Partnerships Pension Trust sells the freehold, urges LKP