News archive

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

RICS fines Warwick Estates £20,000 over lift shaft fatality – after ARMA ‘blocked its regulator from hearing the case’

National Trust abandons ground rent rises of up to £8,000 a year for its rural leaseholders

£19,200 a year ground rents at Crawford Building are not our problem, says Redrow

Sajid Javid calls for Grenfell cladding round table with developers and freeholders … and LKP will be invited

Full marks to Rynew for holding awards for people who have actually helped leaseholders. Well, it’s a novelty!

House of Commons briefing to MPs on Grenfell Cladding: contact LKP

Tchenguiz, Astor and offshore freeholders like Abacus Land 4 Limited should PUBLICLY meet over Grenfell cladding, MPs told

Wellcome Trust spends £114,000 on lawyers to defeat Onslow Square leaseholder in £6,000 dispute

RTM champions Urban Owners bought by Warwick Estates

Tribunal rules Citiscape leaseholders must pay to remove Grenfell cladding. Will this mean some lose their homes?

LEASE chair Roger Southam launched complaint to Parliamentary Standards Commissioner against Sir Peter Bottomley and Jim Fitzpatrick (and LKP, naturally enough)

Government can’t lend cash to Grenfell cladding sites until someone agrees to pay it back, says LKP

Grenfell cladding debate: Who thinks offshore freeholders will pay (apart from government ministers)?

Labour deputy Tom Watson joins APPG on leasehold reform – but select committee STILL won’t call in the housebuilders

‘Fleecehold’ petition launched to stop housebuilders creating YET ANOTHER revenue stream from their customers

Martin Paine sells on Blythe Court, where ground rents reach £8,000 a year

New Housing Minister hits the ground running

(Galliard v NHBC v the Government v Cladding suppliers) v the Leaseholders

FT looks at financial consequence to freehold speculators of #leaseholdscandal

Grenfell cladding crisis prompts the question: what are freeholders actually for?

Fractures in ARMA’s efforts to regulate the leasehold property management sector

Pinsent Masons believes ban on ‘almost all’ new leasehold houses to have retrospective effect

Mail and Telegraph pile on the misery for Persimmon’s Jeffrey Fairburn (Good, says LKP, he deserves it)

APPG to protect park home owners has as secretariat the site owners’ own trade body!

Hilary Benn rounds on Miller Homes in Leeds constituency

‘Our David Wilson Homes leasehold house means we don’t own it, or the land, pay ground rent and consent fees to anonymous speculators in freeholds, often based offshore,’ Cheshire woman tells local paper

FirstPort Retirement is allowed into ARMA

Leasehold Roadshow heads for Leeds on February 27

Newcastle leasehold house owners stuff attempt by Barratt and Keepmoat to sell their freeholds

Justin Madders delays Leasehold Reform Bill and calls on the Government to provide justice for leaseholders

Leaseholders face £19m to £40m Grenfell cladding bills at Galliard Homes’ New Capital Quay