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Companies like ARMA member SDL Bigwood are ripping off homeowners in private estates, Parliament is told

Justin Madders: this could be called the Leasehold Emancipation Bill

Two opportunities to raise leasehold scandals in Parliament today

Telegraph reports case of Taylor Wimpey pensioner who has paid £38,000 for his freehold … and now won’t help him

MailOnline reports blighted houses of St Mary Magdalene and Holy Jesus Trust

Croydon leaseholders at Citiscape face £750,000 bill to remove Grenfell Tower cladding

MP attacks ‘charity’ residential freehold owners gaming the leasehold system and cites the Mary Magdalene and Holy Jesus Trust

Financial Ombudsman urged to look into leasehold insurance scams

Justin Madders launches Bill to end the enfranchisement and lease extension racket

We are being ripped off by private estate charges by developers and property predators just like leaseholders, says HORnet

LKP tells BBC that property managers can’t regulate themselves. It needs government

Sajid Javid has thought about leasehold property management and does not like what he sees …

Dudley Joiner and Barry Weir named in Commons … and Roger Southam invited to retire

Pensioners tell Dudley Joiner to give them back their £27,000 sinking fund

John Lewis Partnership Pensions Trust tells leaseholder it will ‘disinvest’ in doubling ground rents

Circle Housing humiliated over £22,000 major works bills at Merton Priory knocked back to £3,500

Labour MP Helen Hayes ‘disappointed’ by Sajid Javid’s response on leasehold scandal

James Tuttiett: I have lost two buyers of my flat through ground rent scams. Can you hurry up changing my terms?

Rendall and Rittner buys Braemar Estates

Demo at First-Time Buyers show warns of developers’ leasehold rip-offs

Responses to the government consultation

Leasehold dystopia

E&J Capital Partners ‘compelled’ to sell freehold to Taylor Wimpey house to pensioner for £38,000 (plus £4,000 costs)

What’s the probability that government leasehold statistics are still useless?

Pensioner paid £38,000 for Taylor Wimpey freehold to ground rent speculators E&J Capital Partners

MPs tell government consultation: End leasehold houses. Scrap new ground rents. Ignore pleas for self-regulation. Ban Help To Buy on rip-off leaseholds

Ground rent speculator in leasehold homes laments losses in FT

BBC Radio Manchester wades into the leasehold houses scandal

Civil Justice Council says don’t ban leasehold houses

Countdown to take part in Sajid Javid’s consultation

Has Taylor Wimpey done just enough to avoid being successfully sued?

LKP lunch-time Friday lecture: How we made 2.1 million homes appear

Taylor Wimpey and Long Harbour deal to defuse toxic lease scandal … after 11 months!