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Property tribunal upholds lease extension ‘scandal’ that pays millions to freeholders

LKP analysis of the LEASE/Brady solicitors leaseholder survey 2016

57% of leaseholders regret buying their property, says LEASE

Galliard introduces ‘exit if we Brexit’ clause to homebuyers … but what about exit when you finally see the lease?

LKP meets Roger Southam and Taylor Wimpey over embedded management companies

Leasehold law – the first real changes in 14 years?

Martin Paine, embedded management companies, LKP … all raised in Queen’s speech debate

Southam surrenders control of Mulberry Mews

DCLG told ‘incentive to remain an honest managing agent gets less with each passing year’

Retirement housebuilder hands £7m of freeholds to the leaseholders

Just why is Roger Southam bothering with the Leasehold Advisory Service?

Why ALEP should be your first stop if you are extending a lease

Taylor Wimpey leaseholders ask: if the management company is ours, how do we oust Roger Southam?

BBC features 50 Oxford City Council leaseholders facing £50,000 major works bill

Don’t sell off the Land Registry

Queen Court RTM halts central London basement conversion

BBC Radio 4 on housing association leasehold … and a German asks: is it safe to buy a flat in London?

20 MPs and Lords sign up for All-Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and commonhold

Housing and Care 21: We’ve made a mess at Ashfield, so manage the site yourselves

LKP suggestions prompt amendments to Housing Bill

Spot the difference: questions to LEASE, questions to LKP

Average service charges are £1,863, but rise to £2,777 for new builds

Leaseholders need ‘counselling and relationship advice’, says LEASE chair Dr Sigmund Southam

ARMA to rule on admitting scandal-hit FirstPort Retirement

Dig out your own leasehold flat

A gift from Tchenguiz is one to decline

If you want to reform leasehold, this is how you could do it

Enfield council’s Town Road leaseholders hit for £25,000 bills

LKP property management start-up grows from 120 to 850 flats in nine months

Uproar in Oxford as 50 council leaseholders face bills of £50,000 each

LEASE: we need to make a million pounds a year by 2020

80% of Londoners like living in a flat, even ones run by FirstPort

LEASE: don’t do anything about Triplerose and multi-block RTM