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ABC Estates

Richard Davidoff ex-employees apologise for libel, meanwhile fines against ABC Estates pile up

Category: Latest News, News, Richard DavidoffTag: ABC Estates, Mark Reed, Property Redress Scheme, Richard Davidoff, Valens Contractors Limited

Conservatives and RICS kicked back at insurance kickbacks in 2006. Unfortunately, they did nothing about it – and here we are

Category: Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: ARMA, Chainbow, Christos Lazari, Estates Gazette, FCA, Graham Chase, ICOBS, Lazari Investments Limited, Lord Barker of Battle, Lucy Barnard, Michael Gove, Peter Bill, Peter Rochford, Rendall and Rittner, RICS, Robert Bryant-Pearson, Roger Southam, Sir Terence Etherton, Tchenguiz Family Trust, Theresa Villiers MP, Vincent Tchenguiz

ABC Estates

Two former employees of ABC Estates ‘face £60,000 each in costs after libel claim, and must apologise in open court’

Category: Latest News, News, Richard DavidoffTag: ABC Estates, Norwich Pharmacal, Richard Davidoff, Sir Peter Bottomley

Poltair Homes

Nothing to do with us, says Poltair Homes CEO, over 80 blighted shared ownership houses in Cornwall

Category: Latest News, News, Shared ownershipTag: George Eustice MP, Michael Gove, Pentowan Gardens, Poltair Homes, Private Eye, Rockwell (FC100) Limited, Tchenguiz Family Trust, THF Limited

Note to Mr Gove: FSA was warning of ‘reputational risk’ in not cracking down on secret leasehold insurance commissions 17 years ago!

Category: Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: Andrea Coscelli, ARMA, Bob Blackman MP, Clive Briualt, CMA, FCA, Federation of Private Residents Associations, ICOBS, Insurance scams, Insurance Times, John McDonnell, John Prescott, LEASE, Leasehold Advisory Service, Lord Newby, Martin Boyd, Matt Brewis, Michael Gove, OFT, Rabina Khan, Sarah Olney MP, Sir Peter Bottomley

MPs join leaseholders at protest to ensure no one is left facing building safety cash calls

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Baroness Claire Fox of Buckley, Bob Blackman MP, Cath Williams, Cladding scandal, Clive Betts MP, Daisy Cooper MP, End Our Cladding Scandal, Flo Eshalomi MP, Hilary Benn MP, Iain Duncan Smith, Justin Madders MP, Katie Kendrick, Liam Spender, Marsha de Cordova MP, Matthew Pennycook, National Leasehold Campaign, Rabina Khan, Ritu Saha, Rushanara Ali MP, Sir Ed Davey, Sir Mike Penning, Sir Peter Bottomley, Stephen McPartland MP, Stuart Andrew, Ted Baillieu, UK Cladding Action Group, UKCAG

Lendlease

Michael Gove gets the cartel of taxpayer subsidised housebuilders to pay up £5bn towards the building safety scandal … but not Lendlease or Galliard

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Galliard, Home Builders Federation, Lendlease, Michael Gove

JB Leitch

Leasehold debt collector JB Leitch received £470,000 furlough, and paid out a £500,000 dividend to owners

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: Hastenhome Property, JB Leitch, Justin Madders MP, Stiles Developments Limited, Tiny Pig

Michael Gove: Is this the robust inquiry into leasehold insurance fiddles that you wanted from the FCA?

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, FCA, Financial Conduct Authority, Lord Newby, Rabina Khan, Sarah Olney MP, Sir Peter Bottomley

Platinum Skies

Retirement housebuilder Platinum Skies breached shared ownership rules with onerous ‘staircasing’ charges in the lease

Category: Latest News, News, RetirementTag: Andrew Ellson, ARCO, Bruce Moore, Conor Burns MP, Housing 21, John Beesley, Liam Spender, Lord Fink, Michael Voges, Platinum Skies, Sebastian O’Kelly, Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP, Sir Peter Bottomley, The Times

Building Safety Bill

Government dumps Dame Judith Hackitt’s ‘building safety managers’, but what do the latest amendments to the Building Safety Bill mean for leaseholders?

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Building Safety Bill, Dame Judith Hackitt, Liam Spender, Michael Gove

Insurance insiders call for an end to secretive leasehold insurance commissions following Canary Riverside ruling

Category: Canary Riverside, Insurance, John Christodoulou, Latest News, NewsTag: Branko, Branko Bjelobaba, Canary Riverside, Canary Riverside Estate Management Limited, CMA, Create Solutions, Dart Compliance, FCA, Insurance, Insurance Age, Insurance scams, Insurance Times, James Dart, John Christodoulou, Judge Amran Vance, Judge Timothy Powell, Michael Gove, Mike Cranny, Nick Symes, Nikhil Rathi, Octagon Overseas Limited, Reich, West India Quay, Yianis Group

CMA slaps down doubling ground rents of 15 punters who bought cheating freeholds from Countryside Properties plc

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Tchenguiz, William Waldorf AstorTag: Abacus Land, Adriatic Land, Brigante Properties, CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, Countryside Properties plc, Redrow, Vincent Tchenguiz, William Waldorf Astor

JB Leitch

Blunder forces Pier Management and debt collector JB Leitch to scrap £3,265 late ground rent bill (and forfeiture threat that accompanied it)

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Ground rents, JB Leitch, Nicholas Gould, Peter Edward Gould, Pier Management

Will government dump Dame Judith Hackitt’s £60,000 a year building safety managers job creation scheme?

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Baroness Claire Fox of Buckley, Baroness Kath Pinnock, Building Safety Bill, Building safety managers, Building safety reform, Dame Judith Hackitt, Liam Spender, Lord Best, Lord Greenhalgh, Lord Thurlow, Martin Boyd, Rabina Khan, Ritu Saha, Sir Ken Knight, UK Cladding Action Group, UKCAG

Leaseholders helped over building safety crisis is now a ‘bizarre lucky dip’, say MPs

Category: Cladding scandal, Communities Select Committee, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: ACM, Cladding insurance, Cladding scandal, Clive Betts MP, Communities Select Committee, Eric Pickles, EWS1, Florrie's law, Housing and Communities Select Committee, Lord Young of Cookham, Michael Gove, NHBC, PAS 9980, Reform Party, Richard Tice

Israel Moskovitz fails to get £30 each from leaseholders for his ground rent demands (as barrister Rebecca Cattermole, acting pro bono, sees off Justin Bates in the Upper Tribunal)

Category: Israel Moskovitz, Justin Bates, Latest News, Moskovitz / Gurvits, NewsTag: Avon Freeholds, Israel Moskovitz, Justin Bates, Rebecca Cattermole

L&Q rip-off ground rents

Housing association L&Q abandons rip-off doubling ground rents after CMA prodding

Category: Housing associations, Latest News, NewsTag: Housing associations, L&Q, Lucie Gutfreund

John Christodoulou fails to dump £355,000 gym debt onto the Canary Riverside leaseholders. Insurance commissions to be disclosed. And judge criticises his ‘extremely unattractive’ approach to tribunal

Category: John Christodoulou, Latest News, NewsTag: Alan Coates, Canary Riverside, Canary Riverside Estate Management Limited, CMA, Daniel Dovar, FCA, First-tier Tribunal, Insurance, John Christodoulou, Jonathan Upton, Judge Martin Rodger QC, Justin Bates, Octagon Overseas Limited, Parkgate Aspen, Philip Rainey QC, Property tribunal, Reich, Sol Unsdorfer, Upper-tier Tribunal, West India Quay, Yianis Group

Ted Baillieu: Your misconceived Twitter thread over the ‘polluter pays’ amendment should be removed

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Building Safety Bill, Daisy Cooper MP, Justin Madders MP, Polluter Pays, Sir Peter Bottomley, Ted Baillieu, Victoria

After cladding leaseholders issue damning report into housing associations’ response, housing minister Lord Greenhalgh lashes out at ‘sanctity of social housing providers that have built rubbish’

Category: Cladding scandal, Housing associations, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Catalyst, City Wharf Hoxton, Cladding scandal, Clarion, Housing associations, Initial repair period, Kwajo Tweneboa, L&Q, Lord Greenhalgh, Lord Young of Cookham, Shared ownership, Short leases, sub-letting, subletting

Homehold

Are you overpaying for your lease extension?

Category: Informal lease extension, Latest News, NewsTag: Homehold, Lease extension, Linz Darlington

The Building Safety Bill: what do the government’s amendments mean for leaseholders?

Category: Cladding scandal, HomeSlider, Latest News, Liam Spender, News, ParliamentTag: Building Safety Bill

Fletcher Court

Hallmark Property Group seeks to put 44 flats worth £15m on top of a block with ACM cladding, waking watch, a B2 rating after EWS1 … and 75 utterly stressed out leaseholders

Category: Cladding scandal, E&J Capital Partners, Latest News, News, Sinclair Gardens Investments, William Waldorf AstorTag: Adriatic Land, Andrew Charles Bacon, Cladding scandal, Dr Matthew Offord MP, E&J Capital Partners, E&J Estates, Fairview New Homes, Fletcher Court, Hallmark Property Group Limited, Hutchison Whampoa, James Tuttiett, Li Ka-shing, Long Harbour, Paul Chevalier, Pulse Colindale, Sinclair Gardens, William Waldorf Astor

Sucking a lemon, the Leasehold Advisory Service notes the ground rent Act – which it did absolutely nothing to assist

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, LEASE, NewsTag: Anthony Essien, LEASE, Leasehold Advisory Service, Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill, Wanda Goldwag

Not waiting for Gove: Kelly Tolhurst MP urges freeholder Israel Moskovitz to halt court action against leaseholders over £2m cladding and building safety costs

Category: Cladding scandal, Justin Bates, Latest News, Moskovitz / Gurvits, NewsTag: Ardmore Limited, Building safety fund, Cladding scandal, Israel Moskovitz, Joseph Gurvits, Kelly Tolhurst MP, Property tribunal, Triplerose, Y and Y Management

James Walton, ABI

Gove calls on complacent FCA to stop the leasehold insurance rip-offs, and urges the CMA to get stuck in as well

Category: Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: Association of British Insurers, CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, FCA, Insurance, Insurance scams, James Dalton, Lord Newby, Michael Gove, Rabina Khan, Sarah Olney MP

Morello Quarter

Morello Quarter leaseholders stall ruinous cost of waking watch, but how useful is court decision for others?

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Essex Fire and Rescue Service, Liam Spender, Morello Quarter, Waking watch

As new ground rents ban gets Queen’s assent, LKP urges leaseholders to echo calls to action in its submission to government consultation on the next reforms …

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: 25% rule, Canary Riverside, Harry Scoffin, Law Commission, Lord Greenhalgh, Lord Randolph Churchill, Lord Young of Cookham, Michael Gove, Mixed-use sites, West India Quay

Building Safety Bill

The Building Safety Bill: what’s next and what can leaseholders do?

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, Liam Spender, News, Parliament, Rooftop developmentTag: Building Safety Bill, Liam Spender, Lord Greenhalgh, Michael Gove, Permitted development, Rooftop development

Open letter to Taylor Wimpey: If you cared about sorting out your ground rent mess, you can pay back the money your own ex-customers have wasted over this scandal

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Irene Dorner, Joanne Darbyshire, Peter Redfern

leasehold energy bills

Russian tanks on the move …. but already flat owners face 500% energy bill increases with no price cap protection – all because blocks are commercial buildings. For the freeholders’ convenience, of course

Category: Ballymore, John Christodoulou, Latest News, News, West India QuayTag: Ballymore, Charrington Tower, Communal Energy Partners, Embassy Gardens, John Christodoulou, Kate Osamor MP, New Providence Wharf, Ofgem, Pan Peninsula, West India Quay, Yianis Group

Taylor Wimpey cladding

Taylor Wimpey to pay fire safety works on sites built over past 20 years. (But what’s the catch, as with their tricksy doubling ground plan?)

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, Taylor WimpeyTag: Cladding scandal, Sir Peter Bottomley, Taylor Wimpey

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