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JB Leitch loaded leasehold ground rent debt by 222%, Justin Madders tells Commons

APPG members list current membership – 153

Katie Kendrick gets Rightmove to include full leasehold listings, while LEASE does nothing (as usual)

BBC R4 MoneyBox told Grenfell cladding cash difficult to get and does not cover waking watch

Cladding scandal meeting, London City Hall, February 6

Conveyancing Association’s ‘Dirty Dozen’ questions buyers of leasehold need to ask

Moneywise does a thorough job reporting leasehold

Data blogger shows estate agents provide little to no useful information on leasehold properties

Special thanks to SNP Alison Thewliss MP for joining APPG to end leasehold unfairness (as Scottish system is so much better)

MPs demand action on cladding scandal, but the question remains: what?

‘Propriety’: A genteel word to transform our rapacious residential property market

Government’s approach to cladding crisis has been to duck the blame, says engineer who was shown the door by officials

If you want to reform enfranchisement push government hard, is message of Law Commission

APPG recognises efforts of Law Commission to improve enfranchisement

Marriage value a bogus profit in the £2.5bn enfranchisement racket, LKP trustee Dean Buckner tells BBC

Campaigner Katie Kendrick gets Rightmove to include lease details on sales listings

Housing association Network Homes seeks to dump some of its £200m cladding costs on leaseholders

Early Day Motion supported by Corbyn, McDonnell, Bottomley etc … in 2005

Housing data needs to help Bob Cratchit, not Ebenezer Scrooge

Our Father, who art in … Parliament

Is government really back-tracking on leasehold reform evidenced in Queen’s speech? LKP’s verdict is open …

Does Dominic Cumming’s gung-ho planning idea put a hole in Law Commission’s enfranchisement reforms by boosting freehold values?

Wellcome Trust ‘wrong’ over exploiting the lease extension racket in its property portfolio, Bottomley tells The Times

Cladding site? Come to parliamentary meeting on January 9 … and get your MP to attend as well

New fire safety certificate to unlock UK high-rise flat market after Advice Notice 14 resulted in valuations of zero, FT reports

Bellway to pay to remove wood from Barking Riverside fire site

LKP trustees Katie Kendrick and Louie Burns tell Sky News and BBC R4 MoneyBox of ‘David and Goliath’ fight for freeholds

Sector announces new building safety test for leasehold blocks to ‘keep the high-rise property market flowing’

Leaseholders and freeholder of evacuated Manchester block win £10.8m insurer payout for ‘serious defects’

Leaseholder of £3m pad in central London demands £100 a day off Gerald Ronson for no internet

Cladding site? Come to parliamentary meeting on January 9 … and get your MP to attend as well

LKP trustee Professor James Driscoll dies

Does Li Ka-shing own your Adriatic freehold, or Hutchison Whampoa, or billionaire Frank Sixt, or Astor? Only Long Harbour knows, and it’s not saying …