News archive

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’

Barratt’s £15.8m bill at Citiscape … and £70m bill for all cladding sites

Insiders carve up code of practice for property managers – having been silent on systemic abuses for years!

Two-storey planning windfall means billions for freeholders, reports The Times

Barking Riverside fire survivors round on secretive freeholder Adriatic Land, reports BBC R4

Has Jenrick just handed £1bn each to Astor, Tchenguiz and Wallace Estates with two-storey planning gift?

United Nations criticises UK government’s approach to the cladding crisis

FirstPort and Mainstay unite to create ‘monster’ management company controlling 275,000 flats

Solicitor leaseholder may lose Chelsea flat used as brothel

Louie Burns, LKP trustee, dies

Apsana Begum takes to Zoom to help trapped Poplar and Limehouse cladding victims

Cladding leaseholders: Please complete survey on EWS for MPs

Justin Madders urges Redrow founder Steve Morgan to speed along EWS1 form so leaseholder can sell flat

At last, some sense over the cladding crisis from … Rob Perrins, of the Berkeley Group

Pincher defends absent Jenrick in bad tempered Commons clash over Richard Desmond £1bn planning scandal

Communities Select Committee: cladding blocks still doing nothing by December should have their freehold removed

23% of cladding leaseholders have considered suicide or self-harm, says compelling UKCAG report

Radius leaseholders rumble Taylor Wimpey for trying to flog off freehold to property punters …

‘Years’ to sign off Peabody flats as safe, BBC is told. That means no one is able to sell up and leave …

FirstPort ‘spy’ leaves company after infiltrating leaseholders’ group on Facebook

An open letter to Robert Jenrick: the costs of delayed leasehold reform

Long Harbour’s Adriatic Land backs leaseholders at Skyline Central 1 to get public money for HPL removal

Top civil servant warns Robert Jenrick over £1bn cladding bailout … promises post-Grenfell blame game won’t happen again

Has Jenrick been saved by the Cummings furore for rushing through approval of 1,500 home Docklands scheme that would have handed £40m to former publisher Richard Desmond?

Telegraph says buy Ground Rents Income Fund plc, which has fallen 31.6% and lost court action over Beetham Tower

Brindley House cladding leaseholders face eviction, reports BBC R4 You and Yours

Jenrick tells Bottomley: Bill to set new ground rents at peppercorn coming ‘shortly’