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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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’

Are you overpaying for your lease extension?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 …

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

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

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

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?)