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Property tribunal judge chairs sector-driven code of practice review that is boycotted by leaseholders

MPs fail to stop Robert Jenrick’s multi-billion pound planning hand-out to offshore freeholders

Sector says ‘no, thanks’ to controversial Building Safety Bill

England’s cladding leaseholders could end up with equity stripped out of their homes, warns Welsh minister

Public Accounts Committee issues damning verdict on MHCLG’s handling of the cladding crisis

LKP survey of EWS1 shows that 90% of cladding sites DO need remediation

Housing associations furious at government’s 10-year repair-free offer to new shared owners

Lord Greenhalgh becomes the housing minister responsible for leasehold

‘Everybody must call on government, whoever you vote for’ to resolve cladding crisis, says Starmer

Lords from all parties trash government’s multi-billion pound give-away to freehold owners

URGENT: Respond to Building Safety Bill call for evidence

Surveyors discouraged by insurers from carrying out EWS1, says Sir Bob Neill MP

Jenrick’s £12bn home-building media fanfare falls flat as LBC radio returns to the cladding scandal

Freeholder Artisan H2 Limited succeeds in insuring cladding site Albion Works … but not for fire

Housing Ombudsman names and shames social landlords ‘consistently wrong’ with leaseholders and shared owners

LKP, NLC and FPRA decline to participate in trade body insiders’ code of conduct

42 MPs back Starmer’s attempt to block rooftop planning give-away to freeholders

Settle up with doubling ground rent victims or see you in court next year, CMA tells house builders

Building Safety Bill means … leaseholders are going to have to pay a lot of money to clear up the mess of other people

Land Registry publishes new data on leasehold and fleecehold deals to help buyers and nudge Rightmove

Lords warn government of “tidal wave of protest” at new right for freeholders to add extra floors without permission

Report from Tchenguiz Family Trust, Long Harbour and Wallace Estates seeks to side-line leasehold reforms by fear-mongering over fire safety

Beware ‘MacDUFF’ Scottish consumer-friendly land laws, say freeholders in lobbying report to save their incomes

Louie Burns’ ‘passion for justice’ praised in Commons by Justin Madders MP

After 60 consultations, Bottomley told ‘when parliamentary time allows’ for reforms promised three years ago

Is ‘Chapman’ the new ‘Daejan’?

Andover asphalt major works war sees landlord forced to pay for leaseholders’ expert

Law Commission reports offer blueprint to demolish monetising landlordism in residential leasehold

Pensioners in former pit village fight ground rents rising from £10 a year to £1,100pa (after a demand for £2,450pa was rejected)

Has The Times report ended bnb raves at West India Quay – where landlord John Christodoulou and manager Rendall and Rittner failed?

Fewer leaseholders’ rights would help make buildings safe, L&Q tells MPs

To build 8,120 new flats: Government gifts freeholders £41bn, devalues flats by £200m … and torpedoes leasehold reform

MHCLG officials tell MPs: Don’t know costs of waking watch. No idea that at least three cladding sites are uninsured. We are not to blame but ‘30 years of developer failures’