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DCLG shakes up leasehold team … but what about Southam, LEASE and the Mundy case, asks Bottomley

LKP prods media to cover theft of Sonia McColl OBE’s park home

Park Home champion Sonia McColl OBE has her mobile home stolen … ‘after death threats’

Views of Tory MP Crispin Blunt: Government should ‘nullify’ ground rents. End ‘feudal’ leasehold. Bring in commonhold. And stop developers’ and solicitors’ ‘unconscionable’ cheating of the naïve

Barclays turns down mortgage on flat where ground rent doubles every 25 years

Pathetic efforts by plc housebuilders to address ground rent scandal exposed on TV

We are dissatisfied with the running of LEASE, APPG chairs tells housing minister

Sebastian O’Kelly addresses retirement property managers. Were you lynched? No, they agreed: leasehold ‘granny flats’ have no future

Blenheim Centre flat owners to be spared £20,000-30,000 each on Grenfell cladding bill, Legal & General tells LKP

Why has it taken so long to regulate the leasehold sector?

A second backbench debate on leasehold issues

Leasehold houses have been sold for more than freehold ones, reports Telegraph

Tchenguiz’s Israeli ‘military intelligence’ operators Black Cube ‘were employed by Harvey Weinstein over sex accusations’

Change your doubling ground rents before the John Lewis Partnerships Pension Trust sells the freehold, urges LKP

Companies like ARMA member SDL Bigwood are ripping off homeowners in private estates, Parliament is told

Justin Madders: this could be called the Leasehold Emancipation Bill

Two opportunities to raise leasehold scandals in Parliament today

Telegraph reports case of Taylor Wimpey pensioner who has paid £38,000 for his freehold … and now won’t help him

MailOnline reports blighted houses of St Mary Magdalene and Holy Jesus Trust

Croydon leaseholders at Citiscape face £750,000 bill to remove Grenfell Tower cladding

MP attacks ‘charity’ residential freehold owners gaming the leasehold system and cites the Mary Magdalene and Holy Jesus Trust

Financial Ombudsman urged to look into leasehold insurance scams

Justin Madders launches Bill to end the enfranchisement and lease extension racket

We are being ripped off by private estate charges by developers and property predators just like leaseholders, says HORnet

LKP tells BBC that property managers can’t regulate themselves. It needs government

Sajid Javid has thought about leasehold property management and does not like what he sees …

Dudley Joiner and Barry Weir named in Commons … and Roger Southam invited to retire

Pensioners tell Dudley Joiner to give them back their £27,000 sinking fund

John Lewis Partnership Pensions Trust tells leaseholder it will ‘disinvest’ in doubling ground rents

Circle Housing humiliated over £22,000 major works bills at Merton Priory knocked back to £3,500

Labour MP Helen Hayes ‘disappointed’ by Sajid Javid’s response on leasehold scandal

James Tuttiett: I have lost two buyers of my flat through ground rent scams. Can you hurry up changing my terms?

Rendall and Rittner buys Braemar Estates