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90-day reprieve on forfeiture

Shared ownership: a misnomer that can be worse than renting and worse than leasehold, says solicitor

Coronavirus lockdown should not stop work on cladding, government told

Be a good neighbour: Templates for leaseholder mutual help during self-isolation period

Rip-off retirement leasehold fees give Corrie’s Ken Barlow a feast of plot lines. Let’s hope he leads a right to manage rebellion …

The Times reports criticisms of Jenrick’s two-storey planning windfall to what he called ‘egregious’ freeholders

Appeal to Robert Jenrick: Islington Gates faces evacuation if cladding bills not paid on April 1

Consumers’ Association boasts sorting ground rent scandal and prompting CMA mis-selling investigation

Buildings ‘just below 18m’ included in cladding fund

Here’s commonhold, but it won’t be mandatory. Shula Rich recalls the compromises behind the 2002 Act

Southwark announces new bills … and no funds for leaseholder group

ARMA on commonhold: Falling leasehold values. Zombie apartment blocks. Plenty of scrapping. Lack of interest. But good business for professional managers …

Some in leasehold sector declined to co-operate with mis-selling investigation, says CMA

March 23: Cladding showdown begins, with Communities Select Committee questioning Tchenguiz group … and LKP

Blessed is the sinner that repenteth … former housing minister Heather Wheeler joins APPG to reform leasehold

Government told to curb excessive ground rents and ‘disassociate’ from freeholders’ ‘Pledge to Leaseholders’ by Communities Select Committee

Results of LKP survey of 148 cladding scandal sites … as Communities Select Committee launches its own

Robert Jenrick: Why give freeholders such a whopping planning windfall over two new storeys rule, like this site in Newark?

Cladding leaseholders rejoice after Robert Jenrick secures £1bn in Budget … on top of £400m already pledged

Bob Marley lover faces forfeiture of Chelsea flat

Huawei rebel MPs nearly defeat government over Bill promising faster broadband for leaseholders

CMA’s devastating report on leasehold mis-selling echoes the Communities Select Committee, says Clive Betts MP

Israel Moskovitz demand for £22,170 admin charges reduced to £300 in ‘colossal waste of court’s time’

Influential Tory MP Neil O’Brien calls developers and managing agents ‘the timeshare salesmen and dodgy wheel-clampers of our generation’

Lords hear how LKP warned government over ground rents and leasehold houses … in 2015

We are going to court if necessary to get ripped off leaseholders their money back, CMA tells BBCR4 MoneyBox

LKP joins ARMA initiative to urge chancellor to fund re-cladding bills set to ruin 500,000 leaseholders

LKP vindicated by devastating CMA report into mis-selling of leasehold homes

‘Peppercorn’ ground rents on Help To Buy properties … from next year

Cladding scandal Westminster demo, February 25: three mayors, 27 MPs, 300 leaseholders, a swarm of media …

Fatcat freeholders SHAMED by MHCLG for having no plan to remove Grenfell cladding from their buildings include Long Harbour and James Tuttiett

Telegraph reports plummeting value of shared ownership flats

‘Worst building safety scandal in modern history’