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MPs attack government for dumping historic building failures onto leaseholders

Oh, dear! Long Harbour private equity speculators buy freehold where ground rent FALLS from £250 to £143

Tory councillors and Labour MP back leaseholders in blocking ERE freeholds shoving up two more storeys under Jenrick’s planning give-away

Baroness Dianne Hayter criticises LKP for not taking part in property managers’ new code of practice

Greenhalgh to dump ‘affordable’ cladding bills on leaseholders, which they were promised AGAIN and AGAIN would not happen …

Government should have equity stake in cladding freeholds covered by the fund, Hilary Benn MP tells APPG

Florrie’s Law fails again as Haringey council dumps £100,000 bills on leaseholders in the midst of the Covid-19 disaster

ARMA becomes a lobbyist for freeholders

Self-interested freeholders and property managers chorus: ‘taxpayer must pay over cladding’ … which, as it happens, leaves their income streams untouched

‘Get out of your ivory tower’: Tory MP turns on Jenrick over ‘shocking betrayal’ of cladding leaseholders

Dame Judith Hackitt’s uninterest in leasehold tenure is like ‘wanting to build cars with no idea how they are driven’, says LKP

Freeholder Andrew Craige Curtis to use two-storey planning give-away at a north London cladding site while leaseholders ruined with remediation bills

Property tribunal judge chairs sector-driven code of practice review that is boycotted by leaseholders

MPs fail to stop Robert Jenrick’s multi-billion pound planning hand-out to offshore freeholders

Sector says ‘no, thanks’ to controversial Building Safety Bill

England’s cladding leaseholders could end up with equity stripped out of their homes, warns Welsh minister

Public Accounts Committee issues damning verdict on MHCLG’s handling of the cladding crisis

LKP survey of EWS1 shows that 90% of cladding sites DO need remediation

Housing associations furious at government’s 10-year repair-free offer to new shared owners

Lord Greenhalgh becomes the housing minister responsible for leasehold

‘Everybody must call on government, whoever you vote for’ to resolve cladding crisis, says Starmer

Lords from all parties trash government’s multi-billion pound give-away to freehold owners

URGENT: Respond to Building Safety Bill call for evidence

Surveyors discouraged by insurers from carrying out EWS1, says Sir Bob Neill MP

Jenrick’s £12bn home-building media fanfare falls flat as LBC radio returns to the cladding scandal

Freeholder Artisan H2 Limited succeeds in insuring cladding site Albion Works … but not for fire

Housing Ombudsman names and shames social landlords ‘consistently wrong’ with leaseholders and shared owners

LKP, NLC and FPRA decline to participate in trade body insiders’ code of conduct

42 MPs back Starmer’s attempt to block rooftop planning give-away to freeholders

Settle up with doubling ground rent victims or see you in court next year, CMA tells house builders

Building Safety Bill means … leaseholders are going to have to pay a lot of money to clear up the mess of other people

Land Registry publishes new data on leasehold and fleecehold deals to help buyers and nudge Rightmove

Lords warn government of “tidal wave of protest” at new right for freeholders to add extra floors without permission