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Dismal picture of leasehold emerges from MPs’ debate. But no government commitment on reforms

MPs briefing: Stop trying to reform leasehold. Just bring it to an end, and join the rest of the world

New Estate Management thrown out of Property Ombudsman for not paying £1,000 award

Deadline today for freeholders to declare offshore beneficial ownership

Mr Spender goes to war over St David’s Square service charges … and landlord caves in over more than £100,000 buildings insurance commissions on eve of tribunal

Michael Gove’s admission today that regulation failures in part caused Grenfell clears path to final resolution of the building safety crisis

After seven efforts at reform – with more on the way – Sections 21 and 22 of Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 are still flawed service charge protections

Why not impose a revived Florrie’s Law cap on council major works rather than see leaseholders made homeless?

Spare a thought for the forgotten Welsh building safety cladding victims

John Christodoulou ‘lamentable’ lack of transparency over excessive £1.6m insurance costs at Canary Riverside

Railpen: We don’t want to invest in ground rents anymore because ‘there is a consumer on the far end’

£100k major works bills wipe out council leaseholders. But why are 40% of Right To Buy homes now owned by investors?

At last a housing minister who seems to want to reform leasehold, and knows legal costs are being gamed to keep freeholders on top

Metropolitan housing association MTVH tells MPs: we won’t collect ground rent, we have ditched marriage value and all leases are 990 years (where possible)

Another buy-to-let leaseholder landlord faces ruin over building safety costs

RMC / RTM directors threaten mass resignation if ‘building safety directors’ are imposed

As the tide turns on UK property, any sympathy for this baby boomer investor: ‘I own three cladding flats and two other investment properties. I am considering bankruptcy …’

Wyldecrest thwarts attempts by park home activist Tony Turner to provide statement of accounts in upper property tribunal

Park home demonstrators demand end to 10% sales fees – as litany of crooked practice reported to MPs

Richard Davidoff given the boot as section 24 court appointed manager after expulsion from ARMA, IRPM and Propertymark

FCA authorised firms that are coining more than 40% profits out of leasehold insurance, and here’s how:

LKP’s response to the Financial Conduct Authority report on leasehold buildings insurance

FirstPort jacks up accounting fees at St David’s Square by 80% … and then bodges accounts, leaving leaseholders overcharged by more than £17,500

Israel Moskovitz loses appeal on right to charge £36 a pop for collecting his ground rents

If freeholders can’t pay to remediate ‘their’ buildings, they should lose the freeholds and the income streams that come with them

Rendall & Rittner makes nearly £1 million a year in gas and electricity commissions

FCA report on insurance in leasehold blocks: what does it propose and why does it matter?

Leasehold insurance: 17 years of FCA regulatory failure

Westminster Forum: rare meeting where freeholders, leaseholders, professionals actually discussed leasehold reform … together

Compass Point faces insurance price hike from £12,000 to £250,000, with 21 days to pay the bill

South Cliff Tower and Southdown Surveyors regarded £3m repairs consultation as ‘something to be endured’ rather than ‘influence decision making’

When inflation linked ground rents are worse than ten-year doubling ones. That would be now …

Pier / Regis: ‘Pay up £120 for subletting!’ But it says £50 in the lease. ‘Tribunal. Legal costs. Forfeiture … er, alright, we will take £50. Same dance next year? …’