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Making the polluter pay

Property tribunal tightens up how it appoints section 24 court-appointed managers after the Richard Davidoff debacle

Gove backs cladding leaseholders in urging investor Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) to make UK housebuilders pay for build defects

Settlers Court: for the first time the Supreme Court considers right to manage. The result? Leaseholders get a battering over communal area management

Time for leaseholders in mixed-use sites to take control

In Gove we trust, but developers can pay cash

Reverse ferret: Taylor Wimpey NOW agrees to sort out re-sale buyers of its rip-off ground rent leasehold properties

CMA forces Taylor Wimpey to sort out rip-off ten-year doubling ground rents

Richard Davidoff of ABC Estates expelled from IRPM

Two ex-employees of ABC Estates fail to stop Richard Davidoff defamation action over critical Google reviews with fake names (and ‘face £36,000 costs so far’)

Vicky Pollard property tribunal: yes, but … no, but … Yes, you have been ripped off over insurance. But no, we can’t do anything about it

Well, can Sir Keith Lindblom do anything about Richard Davidoff’s continuing role as an officer of the property tribunal?

Data tells us sprinklers work, waking watch doesn’t, and freehold punters aren’t picking up the tab, Martin Boyd tells ODI

Shadow housing brief passes from Mike Amesbury to Matthew Pennycook

Time to tell MPs what you think about the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill – and why it must not be nobbled

Hackitt and Knight back dumping unregulated sector-insider ‘building safety managers’ onto leaseholders at £60,000 a year, MPs told

Few disagreements over banning ground rents, but last minute effort to keep them for retirement properties by Theresa Villiers and Sir Desmond Swayne

Lobbying alert: Theresa Villiers MP speaks up for ground rents, freehold owners and making sure marriage value still pays off for freehold investors

LKP accredited managing agent Premier Block Management ‘opens Pandora’s box’ by inviting critical social media reviews

FirstPort faces leasehold rebellion over service charges at St David’s Square

Sir Peter Bottomley calls on ministers to listen to ‘whistleblower’ ex-employees of Richard Davidoff (of ABC Estates)

Property tribunal chamber president Siobhan McGrath says Richard Davidoff has two other section 24 court appointments – ‘as far as I can ascertain’ – and proposes a new practice code to encourage section 24 appointees to behave

Financial Conduct Authority under pressure to force open secretive insurance commissions, so leaseholders can see what they are paying for

Leaseholder and ex-Number 10 advisor to David Cameron issues call for reform of property managers after Richard Davidoff case

Richard Davidoff fails to block right to manage – from a residents’ management company where he is the only director

Israel Moskovitz’s bid to monetise squalid car park back-fires and may cost him over £100,000 at tribunal

New build flat sales volume has fallen 60% and re-sales trail old and new houses

Demonstrations and going to the press – and involving LKP – improved our situation hugely, say Ballymore leaseholders

Sir David Amess, RIP. 1952-2021

Mother and 12-year-old son living on friend’s sofa after eviction from grade 2 listed flat after service charge dispute tops £20,000 with costs

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