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Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill: the most important part of the enfranchisement bit is missing

Marriage value? Let’s have an acrimonious divorce!

Work with this leasehold reform Bill, or wait for Utopia? Minimum: another 3 more years

New chair of LEASE tells MPs: time for the leasehold system to go gentle into that good night

Leasehold reforms: respond to government consultation over ground rents before 17 January (because those legging you over will certainly be doing so)

Minister Rachel Maclean claims leasehold reform will be ‘a generational transformation’. Hugely welcome changes, but it’s scaled back as the government runs on borrowed time

MPs aghast at Liam Spender’s account of being a leaseholder litigant. It is like ‘being a laboratory animal in a maze controlled by freehold-owning landlords and their enablers’

First step for major leasehold reforms: Martin Boyd appointed chair of Leasehold Advisory Service

Southwark council meets its leaseholders. Lambeth pays them off (and deploys NDAs)

Platinum Skies: £63,000 loss on £130,000 shared ownership retirement flat after new owner died 25 days after moving in

Shared ownership: Immensely complex; nothing shared when it comes to costs; clever ‘investors’ scent a revenue source to replace ground rents

Park home owners demo against 10% sales commissions

Three quarters of Churchill Retirement flats have lost money when resold, says The Times

Marriage Value: How your freeholder hitches a ride on the uplift of value on your flat

Odevo rivals FirstPort as largest managing agent after hoovering up rivals

We all agree, yet we are still waiting for the leasehold reforms promised years ago, says Katie Kendrick

APPG on shared ownership: L&Q wrong to hard sell ‘Black Friday’ knock-off flats to buyers. Urgent need for shared ownership re-sale data to be on Land Registry

We support leasehold reform but not abolishing it and leaseholders are served by ground rents, says the Residential Freehold Association

Housing Minister Rachel Maclean pledges to reform LEASE, calls out Churchill Retirement Living, pledges to end the ‘assured tenancy trap’ and reiterates commitments to reform leasehold

War of attrition: FirstPort appeals St David’s Square leaseholder victory (after telling leaseholders everyone would be sharing in the win)

FirstPort / E&J Estates face insurance challenge over ramping up rebuild costs

Abacus Land sees its ground rents more than double to £711, thanks to RPI

Sell-out run for ‘Fleecehold’, the play telling the story of the founders of the National Leasehold Campaign

Call for evidence on shared ownership, from the robust Communities Select Committee

Your chance to say what you think about retirement housing before September 18

Libel lawyers for Richard Davidoff, of ABC Estates, fail to get Google to hand over online reviewers’ identities

What a surprise! Nigel Glen becomes the mouthpiece of freehold investors

Devastating criticism of FCA for telling MPs it only knew of leasehold insurance fiddling ‘just prior’ to Michael Gove demanding a probe last year!

We need retirement ground rent gaming like a hole in the head, say retirement community operators

Court of Appeal backs rights of 200,000 shared ownership leaseholders after right to manage duel with Israel Moskovitz

What is the point of this government, asks Lisa Nandy as it wriggles over promised leasehold reforms

Black Friday for FirstPort: ALL leaseholders at St David’s Square to share £479,000 service charge triumph. And £55,000 in energy subsidies to be paid up

Net Zero is going to be difficult throughout the world … but with leasehold tenure, next to impossible