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Freeholders on course for judicial review showdown against leasehold reforms in January

Southwark council’s leaseholder conference is an invaluable resource for all

Davidoff libel action against ex-Number 10 policy advisor collapses

MPs set up new parliamentary group to reform leasehold

Fleecehold: The play. Back on stage in Camden August 22-24

Freeholders face class action over insurance commissions

Government to go to war on ‘feudal’ leasehold … But no commitment to zero ground rents

Peter Bottomley: Many thanks

Leaseholders’ victory over ‘contracts for eternity’ is overturned by Upper Tribunal

Leasehold reform: So, was it worth it?

Damning ruling on E&J’s insurance over-charging

Why is the church blind to the injustices of leasehold?

Government seeks £20.5 million off John Christodoulou for Canary Riverside building safety works, reports FT

Sterling Estates Management fails to derail second effort at right to manage

Leasehold Bill: What a missed opportunity, with just about every MP wanting to go further …

Leaseholders are not the customer. They are the product, LKP tells Lords committee

More than six years after Grenfell and 15 months after the Building Safety Act, how does Labour Wales compare with Tory Westminster over fixing badly built blocks of flats?

Minnow developer Prime Metro has no assets. Warranty provider Acasta is stalling and in Gibraltar. How did seven £800k London flats get built in 2018 that are now falling apart and worth zero?

Dump the two-storey ‘ill-considered’ planning give-away to freeholders, says Sir Julian Lewis

Insurance pooling to lessen leasehold insurance bills appears to have stalled – but not commissions – says Sir Stephen Timms

We promised ‘fairness and transparency for leaseholders’ so let’s do it, says Bob Blackman

MPs call for fleecehold of private estates to be stamped out

Clive Betts: removing onerous ground rents is ‘completely compatible with the European convention on human rights’

Is Gove an empty vessel making the loudest noise? asks Samantha Dixon. And where is Lord Best’s report on regulating property managers?

‘Even Del Boy had limits, Mr Moskovitz,’ Stella Creasy tells MPs

Stop this ‘bad freeholders’ nonsense. Abuse in leasehold is organised, trained and systemic, says Ruth Cadbury MP

Lee Rowley and Matthew Pennycook duel political points over leasehold reform Bill

Freeholders cried crocodile tears for old ladies and said the pensions sector would be destabilised, says former housing minister. (And commonhold is ready to roll …)

Michael Gove: ‘squeeze every income stream that freeholders have’. Parliament debates leasehold reform Bill

Our parliamentary briefing on the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill

Freeholds aren’t worth £27.3bn. They are worth what someone might pay for them today

McCarthy and Stone makes ‘goodwill’ payment of £40,000 to Oak Court, but leaseholder drops article for LKP after phone call from the company’s lawyer

Freeholders face £27.3bn fall in asset values if ground rents reduced to peppercorn, says government