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Industrial-scale ground rent rip-offs have turned leasehold properties into short-term tenancies, says Maria Eagle

Developers moderating their cheating makes it worse for leaseholders who are trapped, says Fiona Bruce MP

Government is hiding behind Law Commission and CMA, says Tory MP Bob Blackman

Time to ban Redrow in Liverpool, asks leasehold victim Rosie Cooper MP – who also names stooge solicitors Bannister Preston

Don’t trust developers to put right the wrongs that they created, Clive Betts tells government

John Healey blasts the government over lack of support for existing leaseholders as Tory backbench unease grows

Welsh policymakers back monetary ground rents while pondering ‘compulsory commonhold’

Cladding crisis reveals why freeholders are an impediment to any solution

Martin Boyd flags controversial civil servant letter to City Hall at fire safety meeting

Leaseholders pay up to 60% more for buildings insurance because of secret commissions, reports The Times

Will Lord Best’s regulator help break the power of freeholders over their leaseholder victims?

Bottomley thanks Number 10 for leasehold reform … while colleague brands Persimmon ‘crooks, cowboys and con artists’ at prime minister’s questions

Number 10 chief of staff Gavin Barwell ‘delighted’ to be invited to present award to LKP

Ending ground rents will hurt leaseholders, says Long Harbour …

ONS trumpets collapse in sales of new-build leasehold houses

The i newspaper links leasehold ‘slums of the future’ to Help To Buy and the Tchenguiz Family Trust

Lord Best report on regulating managing agents and service charges to be unveiled tomorrow

Park homes like leasehold with serious menace added, LKP tells Guardian

Boris Johnson signs up to the APPG as pressure grows on lawmakers to be bold on leasehold

Jeremy Corbyn raises forfeiture case at prime minister’s questions

Labour promises to banish leasehold to the history books

Political arms race commences as Labour announces £250 ground rents for existing leaseholders

Seize ‘golden opportunity’ offered by Help To Buy 2021 to end taxpayer-funded spread of toxic leasehold, urges Tory MP

Government’s slightly wobbly response to the excellent report of the Communities Select Committee

‘The genie is out of the bottle,’ three lawyers solemnly explain to industry insiders in Estates Gazette

Victoria Derbyshire Show reports the toll of leasehold miseries on mental health

Boris’s PR gurus Crosby Textor have NOT been nobbling government over ground rents (well, not since autumn 2017 anyway …)

Is this the best news for leasehold serfs since 1066? Quite possibly …

Leaseholders to sue government over fire safety measures

Now it is Shanly Homes dumping its customers into unsellable homes

Tory MP Eddie Hughes moves private member’s bill to cap existing ground rents at £250

Taylor Wimpey’s Pete Redfern tells FT ‘we got it wrong on ground rents’

Have young buyers woken up to the great leasehold hoax? Looks like it …