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Leaseholders duck £430,000 legal bill to block celebrity architect Sophie Hick’s underground house next door

Can’t we hear why leasehold reform is bad straight from the top: from Count Padulli, or Will Astor, or James Tuttiett, or the Gould brothers, or Vincent Tchenguiz … ?

Greenhalgh’s farewell to APPG: ‘I have a commonhold flat and there is nothing to fear its widespread adoption to replace leasehold’

Rogue freeholder Michael Stainer imprisoned for three years

No ‘backsliding’ on Gove’s £3bn building safety levy, says his successor Greg Clark

Labour’s Lisa Nandy taunts Tories over ‘feudal’ leaseholds. Meanwhile, PM channels Thatcher to revive enfranchisement plans

APPG members list – current membership 183

Tory Treasurer Lord Leigh and Priti Patel’s family accused of gaming the opportunities of leasehold

Privatising housing estates: what’s the problem?

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