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Please exempt retirement housebuilders from ground rent ban, pleads Sir Desmond Swayne

Gleeson won’t sell leasehold houses, but freehold ones come with ‘fleasehold’ covenants, says Justin Madders

69% of new houses in NW are leasehold. Many owners stuck in limbo. And ban fleecehold covenants, says Maria Eagle

Government to ask Will Astor: who is the offshore freeholder at Heysmoor Heights (where ordinary families face £18k Grenfell cladding bills)?

Brokenshire’s dad fixed cladding in Greenwich, Bottomley reminds Commons

New Capital Quay cladding may cost £7-10m, while NHBC sends in experts – and libel warning to BBC

All Party Parliamentary Group, April 26: Barratt praised at Citiscape; Galliard reviled at New Capital Quay; Taylor Wimpey scorned over ground rent review scheme

Civil service are fired up to reform leasehold, helped by the ‘personal commitment’ of the Secretary of State … Er

Taylor Wimpey help should extend to buyers of re-sales with rip-off ground rents, says Andrew Selous

Law Commissioner Nicholas Hopkins hopes his work prompts complete reform of leasehold

You need professional property managers to deal with fire safety in high-rises, says FirstPort CEO Nigel Howell

Praise for Barratt’s – and LKP – from Citiscape leaseholders

Galliard Homes ‘needs to take responsibility for what it has built’

Taxpayers face £85,000 loss as Homes England accepts leaseholder can pay back loan on flat blighted by Grenfell cladding

Will Law Commission bring in the ‘seismic changes’ that leasehold needs?

The Sun / The Times urge caution over leasehold purchases, while The Times / Guardian / Mail report Barratt paying out £2m at Citiscape

Floorweald and ABC Estates – an ARMA ‘good guy’ – overcharged leaseholders £27,000

Sesame Apartments: Yet another anonymous Long Harbour freeholder demanding £2.2 million over Grenfell cladding

Barratt pays out to remove Grenfell cladding at Citiscape

Complain to Advertising Standards Authority over ‘virtual freehold’ and ‘home ownership’ when the offer is leasehold tenancy

Law Commission sets out how it hopes to create a better deal for leaseholders – and look at alternatives

Could paying off Help To Buy loans on blighted homes force government to act over Grenfell cladding … and doubling ground rents?

McCarthy and Stone: Ground rents are not the future of retirement housing

Martin Boyd should be the chair of LEASE

LEASE chair Roger Southam resigns

Sky told ground rent scams were ‘a bit more cash’ for beleaguered housebuilders

Countryside Properties plc and Long Harbour to offer deal to end ground rent scam at Silver Point

Sajid Javid tells BBC why his leasehold and lettings regulator is a good idea

Government announces regulator to protect leaseholders and their £4 billion in service charges

National Leasehold Campaign tells Roger Southam to resign from LEASE

Housebuilders ground rent scandal compo schemes ‘must go further and faster’, says housing minister

Oxford Council leaseholders have repair bills slashed from £50,000 to under £4,000

Leaseholders are apathetic, apart from the Dad’s Army figures running RTMs and RMCs, says the sector