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Telegraph reports ‘marketing cobblers’ of 999-year ‘virtual freeholds’ with lethal ground rents

LKP poised to mine information on leasehold, after being admitted to Open Data Institute

Bottomley tells Taylor Wimpey to explain ‘sharp practice’ ground rents – and asks for names of directors who approved them

Pete Redfern: Stop pontificating about the housing crisis and sort out the ground rent scandal of Taylor Wimpey’s own making

Campaign against Residential Leasehold Exploitation and AgeUK reject Law Commission draft on exit fees

Philip Rainey QC: Reform of the law is a duty (and for landlord and tenant law it is overdue)

ARMA conference ‘worried’ that developers are exploiting new home owners

First-time buyers facing £8,000 ground rents stuffed by plc housebuilders

Taylor Wimpey woes reported in Estates Gazette

Surge in new-build leasehold houses with £1.9 billion sold last year

Legal arms race as Canary Riverside freeholder seeks judicial review

Ex-solicitor Ian Macfarlane jailed over £200,000 ground rent scams

CML: Will mortgage lenders lend on commonhold? No. Yes. Maybe … er

Leasehold houses scandal widens as developers face MPs

Disgraceful leasehold houses reported in Guardian today

Terrys Mews right to manage fails for not knowing Peverel OM is now FirstPort

Case against Benjamin Mire collapses, as RICS disciplinary process descends into shambles

99% of FirstPort’s 3,800 service charge accounts are up to date

Canary Riverside freeholder told to co-operate with court appointed managing agent

Right to manage champion Urban Owners joins LKP

Guardian reports the Blythe Court ground rent scandal

Do you REALLY know what your managing agent is charging you?

John Christodoulou minions get the boot at Canary Riverside

Private Eye reports challenge to ‘scandal’ of lease extension values

The Times: ‘Exit fees and poor resale values: the uncomfortable truth about retirement homes’

Oxford council leaseholders each facing £50,000 bills head for the courts

Land Registry sell-off is shelved (for the moment)

LKP meeting with housing minister Gavin Barwell

All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and commonhold established today

Sir Roger’s quest for the Holy Grail … (or any other metaphor that helps his cosy leasehold world remain the same)

Campaign against Residential Leasehold Exploitation reveals abysmal retirement housing re-sale values

Five right to buy scams that are tricking taxpayers out of millions

‘Scandalous’ that Duke of Westminster’s wealth comes from leasehold, claims campaigner