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Why hasn’t EWS1 restarted the market in flats caught in the cladding scandal?

‘Predatory investors’ prey on cladding sites that government advice made valueless

MPs turn the heat on government over cladding scandal … on the day before two housing ministers were given the chop

Welsh government grapples with ‘fleecehold’ woes, issues call for evidence closing April 3

Long Harbour rebukes Mark Hawthorn, of Landmark Investments, for ‘falling below professional standards’ over email on doubling ground rents

Northern mayors and MPs to join cladding demo outside Parliament on February 25

The Times saturation coverage of cladding scandal

10 housing ministers in 10 years: All you need to know …

Cladding leaseholders tweet #HaveAHeart

Rebecca Long-Bailey asks Will Astor why Long Harbour is demanding £10,000 to vary toxic doubling ground rent leases

90% of cladding victims think government has been ‘no help’, according to early results of LKP survey

Corrie’s Ken Barlow warned against buying ‘red flags’ leasehold flat on upmarket retirement site

Right-to-buy owners are also being ripped off by the leasehold system, The Guardian reports

URGENT: Fill out LKP cladding survey for MPs’ debate on Wednesday

Jenrick breaks cover … to visit Galliard’s New Capital Quay cladding site that was bound to be sorted out

Help us get government to honour its pledge that leaseholders won’t be paying to remove cladding, says Hilary Benn

Getting Cayman Islands freeholders to help with cladding crisis is an additional difficulty, says UK’s top fire chief

Cladding sites insurance has gone from £40,000 to £200,000, UKCAG talls City Hall meeting

Cladding leaseholders must unite … and get MPs to attend Hilary Benn’s debate on February 12

Under £50,000 allocated for private cladding removal … and not a penny spent, says London mayor

Why are ministers – wittingly or not – misleading Parliament over progress with the cladding crisis?

Brexit day prisoner: Polish father desperate to sell Notting Hill Genesis cladding flat to join ailing family back home

No ‘clarity or concern’ over Law Commission proposals on enfranchisement reform, says ground rent fund Time Investments

Law Commission lost its way with human rights for offshore hedge funds, says BBC’s Paul Lewis

JB Leitch loaded leasehold ground rent debt by 222%, Justin Madders tells Commons

APPG members list – current membership 162

Katie Kendrick gets Rightmove to include full leasehold listings, while LEASE does nothing (as usual)

BBC R4 MoneyBox told Grenfell cladding cash difficult to get and does not cover waking watch

Conveyancing Association’s ‘Dirty Dozen’ questions buyers of leasehold need to ask

Moneywise does a thorough job reporting leasehold

Data blogger shows estate agents provide little to no useful information on leasehold properties

Special thanks to SNP Alison Thewliss MP for joining APPG to end leasehold unfairness (as Scottish system is so much better)

MPs demand action on cladding scandal, but the question remains: what?