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Leasehold Bill: What a missed opportunity, with just about every MP wanting to go further …

Leaseholders are not the customer. They are the product, LKP tells Lords committee

More than six years after Grenfell and 15 months after the Building Safety Act, how does Labour Wales compare with Tory Westminster over fixing badly built blocks of flats?

Minnow developer Prime Metro has no assets. Warranty provider Acasta is stalling and in Gibraltar. How did seven £800k London flats get built in 2018 that are now falling apart and worth zero?

Dump the two-storey ‘ill-considered’ planning give-away to freeholders, says Sir Julian Lewis

Insurance pooling to lessen leasehold insurance bills appears to have stalled – but not commissions – says Sir Stephen Timms

We promised ‘fairness and transparency for leaseholders’ so let’s do it, says Bob Blackman

MPs call for fleecehold of private estates to be stamped out

Clive Betts: removing onerous ground rents is ‘completely compatible with the European convention on human rights’

Is Gove an empty vessel making the loudest noise? asks Samantha Dixon. And where is Lord Best’s report on regulating property managers?

‘Even Del Boy had limits, Mr Moskovitz,’ Stella Creasy tells MPs

Stop this ‘bad freeholders’ nonsense. Abuse in leasehold is organised, trained and systemic, says Ruth Cadbury MP

Lee Rowley and Matthew Pennycook duel political points over leasehold reform Bill

Freeholders cried crocodile tears for old ladies and said the pensions sector would be destabilised, says former housing minister. (And commonhold is ready to roll …)

Michael Gove: ‘squeeze every income stream that freeholders have’. Parliament debates leasehold reform Bill

Our parliamentary briefing on the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill

Freeholds aren’t worth £27.3bn. They are worth what someone might pay for them today

McCarthy and Stone makes ‘goodwill’ payment of £40,000 to Oak Court, but leaseholder drops article for LKP after phone call from the company’s lawyer

Freeholders face £27.3bn fall in asset values if ground rents reduced to peppercorn, says government

Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill: the most important part of the enfranchisement bit is missing

Marriage value? Let’s have an acrimonious divorce!

Work with this leasehold reform Bill, or wait for Utopia? Minimum: another 3 more years

New chair of LEASE tells MPs: time for the leasehold system to go gentle into that good night

Leasehold reforms: respond to government consultation over ground rents before 17 January (because those legging you over will certainly be doing so)

Minister Rachel Maclean claims leasehold reform will be ‘a generational transformation’. Hugely welcome changes, but it’s scaled back as the government runs on borrowed time

MPs aghast at Liam Spender’s account of being a leaseholder litigant. It is like ‘being a laboratory animal in a maze controlled by freehold-owning landlords and their enablers’

First step for major leasehold reforms: Martin Boyd appointed chair of Leasehold Advisory Service

Southwark council meets its leaseholders. Lambeth pays them off (and deploys NDAs)

Platinum Skies: £63,000 loss on £130,000 shared ownership retirement flat after new owner died 25 days after moving in

Shared ownership: Immensely complex; nothing shared when it comes to costs; clever ‘investors’ scent a revenue source to replace ground rents

Park home owners demo against 10% sales commissions

Three quarters of Churchill Retirement flats have lost money when resold, says The Times

Marriage Value: How your freeholder hitches a ride on the uplift of value on your flat