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Judicial Review Day 1: Bad start for freeholders but three days to go

Your full guide to this week’s judicial review by freeholders to torpedo reform to leasehold

What the accounts say … St John’s Wood leasehold estate is worth only 8% of the £380m John Lyon’s Charity

Freehold owning charity in judicial review says ‘disastrous’ leasehold reforms will benefit millionaires and deprive poor children

Damp cycle ride on a Saturday morning leads to Building Safety Act victory in Court of Appeal

Government announces service charge reforms … with as much enthusiasm as a visit to the dentist

National Leasehold Campaign founders honoured for their work

Lloyds Bank becomes the latest ‘for profit’ registered social landlord

MPs step forward in the new All Party Parliamentary Group for leasehold and commonhold reform

Ending marriage value would benefit short-lease owners. But leaseholders with 80-150 years left could face a considerable hike in extension costs over the current unreformed regime

Leaseholders blocked from intervening against freeholders’ judicial review against reforms

Freeholders’ development rights stand in the way of leaseholder enfranchisement – and the future of commonhold

Nationwide is the mortgage lender most nervy about ground rents, suggests survey by National Leasehold Campaign

Might consumer protection law be a silver bullet against freeholders’ escalating ground rents? (And the threat to reform?)

Path is set to kill off leasehold and replace it with commonhold

LKP’s guide for leaseholders to respond to government’s proposed permitted insurance fees: the good and not so good

Right to manage reforms announced … days after Chelsea Bridge Wharf wins RTM

Leaseholders win control of 1,132-flat Chelsea Bridge Wharf … which means they also manage the HQ of housebuilder the Berkeley Group

FirstPort suspended from its own trade body the Property Institute

Freeholders win right for a judicial review to challenge 2024 Act

Homes England issued £236k secret fine to shared ownership retirement developer Platinum Skies

NLC recommissions leaseholders’ mental health survey

Government’s leasehold reform announcement was low key, but this is why we think it will deliver

Why it is going to be so important to shout in 2025 – and loudly – when government sets the leasehold Deferment Rate

Eagerstates: BBC finds £1.2m over-charging in 140 tribunal cases over five years

24 Labour MPs invite FirstPort to Westminster to explain ‘consistent complaints’

After begging to keep ground rents, why is McCarthy and Stone saying it now supports commonhold?

Leaseholders in Ilfracombe can claim legal costs against wideboy freeholders over £2.6m wrongly demanded service charges, says Court of Appeal

Spender wards off attempt to frustrate his appeal over £590,000 ‘contract for eternity’ intercom systems

Cladding disaster will cost £16.6 billion, says National Audit Office. Million people stuck in dangerous homes. 2035 is end date for the debacle. Oh, and £500,000 has been stolen (so far)…

Is the betrayal narrative over leasehold reform being over-played?

Freeholders on course for judicial review showdown against leasehold reforms in January