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LKP trustee Professor James Driscoll dies

Does Li Ka-shing own your Adriatic freehold, or Hutchison Whampoa, or billionaire Frank Sixt, or Astor? Only Long Harbour knows, and it’s not saying …

Families challenge Long Harbour for freeholds to Bellway leasehold houses, The Times reports

Cladding victims now being hit by insurance hikes, reports BBC R4 You and Yours

Grenfell United link up with leaseholder groups to protest cladding crisis and warn next government of Grenfell 2

Martin Lewis, the Money Saving Expert, challenges party leaders over leasehold scandal

Would you want your former Prudential pension invested in Tchenguiz ground rents by Rothesay Life? FT reports concerns

Why AN14 is making your cladding flat impossible to sell

Supreme Court blocks enfranchisement ploy that seems to be pure enrichment

‘You weren’t mis-sold your leasehold house and I am keeping my £45m bonus’, is the message of Persimmon CEO to Bluebell Meadow

The Times reports that families ‘lost £3 billion’ on resale of leasehold retirement flats, while developers and freehold speculators made millions

Taxpayers funding two leasehold houses a day in 2019 through Help To Buy … despite government saying THREE times they should be banned

Retirement housebuilders will only reform when they are forced to do so, Lord Best tells property conference

Developers can now seize FREEHOLD homes, reports BBC R4 MoneyBox in shocking expose of ‘fleecehold’

Only one Grenfell cladding site in line for taxpayer handout as December 31st deadline looms, reports BBC R4 You and Yours

The Liberals (no, not those ones) register ‘severe dissatisfaction’ with Tory record on leasehold

‘Get leasehold done’? Boris Johnson’s Conservatives repeat 2017 pledges in manifesto

A consultation for leaseholders in Wales

The Times reports that families ‘lost £3 billion’ on resale of leasehold retirement flats, while developers and freehold speculators made millions

Cladding victims unimpressed by Robert Jenrick on BBC1’s Question Time

Ground rent baron James Tuttiett gives £8,500 to the Tories (which is a bit stingy, considering …)

After ground rents and cladding … now lenders won’t touch rip-off ‘fleecehold’ properties either, BBC reports

Churchill Retirement donates £150,000 to Conservatives. To retain ground rents, by any chance?

Feudal Dubai cracks down on bloated service charges in flats … and puts added oomph in commonhold

Corbyn’s Labour guns for leaseholder vote in manifesto

LKP patron Jim Fitzpatrick retires as one of Labour’s most respected MPs

Managers retrieve possessions of evacuated residents at cladding site Citiscape

Cladding crisis: How worse can it get?

17,000 households living in private blocks with dangerous cladding like Grenfell

Guardian reports dismal retirement flat re-sale prices, as seller ponders £28,000 offer

Can the Tories wriggle out of reforming leasehold? Don’t bet on it …

Ruling blasts Israel Moskovitz’s lawyers for ‘wasting tribunal time’ in legal warfare that is ‘part of a pattern’, as RTM gains control of £69,000 funds

Residents at cladding site Citiscape allowed back in to retrieve possessions