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Sir David Amess, RIP. 1952-2021

Mother and 12-year-old son living on friend’s sofa after eviction for £4,000 unpaid service charges at grade 2 listed flat

FirstPort buys up Freemont: the property management firm set up by its ousted Politburo

FoPRA dumps Roger Southam as ‘esteemed honorary consultant’. Calls for chair Bob Smytherman to stand down

LKP quits FoPRA as it appoints Roger Southam an ‘esteemed honorary consultant’ – after re-surfacing from the Cayman Islands

Sun shines on the leaseholders’ demo at Parliament: after Jenrick, is this a new dawn?

CMA forces Countryside Properties plc to strike out doubling ground rents: it was selling them as late as May 2017!

Dame Judith Hackitt says cladding leaseholders risk ruin with rip-off charges. She wants to help. But is still at sea over leasehold law …

BBC2 Newsnight special on corrosive leasehold and the building safety crisis … with no minister present at all

Richard Davidoff, of ABC Estates, ‘breached his fiduciary duties’ after disastrous performance as a court-appointed manager, rules property tribunal

FirstPort charges leaseholders 33% commission on temporary staff recruitment

RICS dreams up another feeble ‘code of practice’, as Lord Best’s statutory regulator of property managers falls victim to Covid

Fees come first for FirstPort: leaseholders billed at least £39,000 for applications to the Building Safety Fund … And so it begins

EWS1 on under 18m high buildings … is still an utter mess

Curiouser and curiouser: the Building Safety Bill has Second Reading in the Commons

Blatant pro-landlord loophole left in the Ground Rent Bill. Is this the way leasehold ‘reforms’ will go?

Building Safety Bill: Made by officials. By themselves. Talking to themselves. Will the cogs turn?

Building Safety Bill is a device for which the batteries aren’t included. It could be improved, if only officials would listen …

Justin Madders MP asks why Redrow is selling freeholds at Ledsham Garden Village for £4,000 when they were £6,500. And what about those who paid too much?

LKP rejects threat of defamation proceedings from Canonbury Management

Division as London Assembly opposition urges Sadiq Khan to be tougher on housebuilders over cladding

National Leasehold Campaign email dump urges developers to settle up like Aviva and Persimmon have done with CMA

And so the building safety crisis lurches towards mass forfeitures …

LKP reverses forfeiture of suicide’s flat securing family £40,000

CMA forces Aviva to re-set rip-off doubling ground rents to what they were when homes were first bought …

Make sure ground rents are dead and buried by improving the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill

Tower Hamlets leaseholders find their voice, host free building safety conference with LKP on June 15

Bottomley calls on Boris Johnson to hold fire safety funding summit

Inside job goons found guilty of stealing park home of Sonia McColl OBE

Saturday 5 June: Cladding leaseholders to demonstrate outside sales suites of house builders

Analysis of where next with the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill

Freeholders and housebuilders have plucked the leasehold golden goose, and now the path is clear for commonhold

House of Lords turns into the House of Serfs to attack the iniquity of leasehold ground rents