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At last a housing minister who seems to want to reform leasehold, and knows legal costs are being gamed to keep freeholders on top

Metropolitan housing association MTVH tells MPs: we won’t collect ground rent, we have ditched marriage value and all leases are 990 years (where possible)

Another buy-to-let leaseholder landlord faces ruin over building safety costs

RMC / RTM directors threaten mass resignation if ‘building safety directors’ are imposed

As the tide turns on UK property, any sympathy for this baby boomer investor: ‘I own three cladding flats and two other investment properties. I am considering bankruptcy …’

Wyldecrest thwarts attempts by park home activist Tony Turner to provide statement of accounts in upper property tribunal

Park home demonstrators demand end to 10% sales fees – as litany of crooked practice reported to MPs

Richard Davidoff given the boot as section 24 court appointed manager after expulsion from ARMA, IRPM and Propertymark

FCA authorised firms that are coining more than 40% profits out of leasehold insurance, and here’s how:

LKP’s response to the Financial Conduct Authority report on leasehold buildings insurance

FirstPort jacks up accounting fees at St David’s Square by 80% … and then bodges accounts, leaving leaseholders overcharged by more than £17,500

Israel Moskovitz loses appeal on right to charge £36 a pop for collecting his ground rents

If freeholders can’t pay to remediate ‘their’ buildings, they should lose the freeholds and the income streams that come with them

Rendall & Rittner makes nearly £1 million a year in gas and electricity commissions

FCA report on insurance in leasehold blocks: what does it propose and why does it matter?

Leasehold insurance: 17 years of FCA regulatory failure

Westminster Forum: rare meeting where freeholders, leaseholders, professionals actually discussed leasehold reform … together

Compass Point faces insurance price hike from £12,000 to £250,000, with 21 days to pay the bill

South Cliff Tower and Southdown Surveyors regarded £3m repairs consultation as ‘something to be endured’ rather than ‘influence decision making’

When inflation linked ground rents are worse than ten-year doubling ones. That would be now …

Pier / Regis: ‘Pay up £120 for subletting!’ But it says £50 in the lease. ‘Tribunal. Legal costs. Forfeiture … er, alright, we will take £50. Same dance next year? …’

French resi service group Emeria clears out FirstPort management in take-over

More than 20,000 leaseholders benefit from CMA action over ground rent mis-selling

Barratt off the hook from CMA over mis-selling leasehold homes

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?