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Sonia McColl appeal raises £13,000

Fresh building is to pay £100,000 for fire marshals … with more Grenfell bills to come

Bottomley attacks ‘uncivilised extortion’ of lease extension racket in Mortgage Solutions

ARCO snubs McCarthy and Stone / Churchill by saying there is no need for ground rents

National Leasehold Campaign tops 10,000 members on its first anniversary

Court of Appeal turns down Mundy case – unanimously

Guardian reports misery of leasehold home owners trapped by John Lewis Partnership Pension Trust – and the Mail, Sun, Mirror and Lad Bible (any we have missed?)

Court of Appeal ruling on Mundy case’s ‘inconvenient truth’ expected on Wednesday

Ground rent speculator Robert Steinhouse cuts and runs from Nova House, but who pays £4m Grenfell bill?

Telegraph reports rip-off leasehold sales packs

John Healey says it’s ‘wrong’ for leaseholders to have to pay to remove Grenfell cladding

Dominic Raab: freeze doubling ground rents and get housebuilders to offer proper redress, says National Leasehold Campaign

Tchenguiz / FirstPort in court to dump £2m Grenfell costs on Citiscape leaseholders – despite Sajid Javid plea

£150m for ground rents … from a semi in Hendon

Mundy case in Court of Appeal showdown over valuation racket

Leasehold issues raised at prime minister’s questions

Minister no7 – Dominic Raab

Persimmon sold leasehold houses for £50,000 more than same-size freehold houses at Harrow View West

Housebuilders shares crash over ground rents, with McCarthy and Stone down 10%

Full government report on ‘Tackling unfair practices in the leasehold market’

Will Astor ‘tried to nobble reform of ground rents’, Daily Mail claims

Leasehold houses to be banned and future ground rents set to zero, announces Sajid Javid

Will Heysmoor Heights leaseholders lose their homes to anonymous offshore freeholder if they cannot pay Grenfell bills?

Enfranchisement, commonhold and managing agent regulation are first up for the Law Commission

Thanks LKP for raising Grenfell issues. Now we are giving yet more money to LEASE, says housing minister

Dudley Joiner’s Team Property Management made insolvent by Quadrangle House RTM

£2,000 sublet demand to frail pensioner needing care from freeholder Silhill Investments Limited (plus £375 to Pennycuik Collins)

APPG, December 6: Park home banditry; Law Commission; Planners barring leasehold houses; London deputy mayor; gargantuan Grenfell bills for leaseholders

Appeal: Home for Sonia McColl OBE

Commons debate on leasehold December 21

‘Gargantuan’ Grenfell cladding bills from Astor and Tchenguiz on sites such as New Festival Quarter, The Times reveals today

Taylor Wimpey passed management at Surbiton Plaza II to commercial operator ‘to save customers the administrative burden’ (of being in charge of their own money)

DCLG urged to inform leaseholders over Grenfell cladding bills … and stop snubbing LKP