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Informed leasehold owners increase Leasehold Valuation Tribunal actions by 165 per cent

Ombudsmen will help minor issues but are a ‘million miles’ from dealing with the complex legal acrimony in leasehold, says leading managing agent

Prisk to Bottomley: what’s the evidence that the Leasehold Advisory Service is not ‘balanced’? Well, how about this for starters …

Ex-Israeli intelligence operatives settle dispute with Tchenguiz

Winter of misery ends for couple in leasehold flat, thanks to LKP

Sebastian O’Kelly and Martin Boyd praised in House of Commons: put them on the board of LEASE and clear up the ‘muck’ of leasehold

The Right To Manage Federation chalks up its 28th leasehold RTM success in central London … as it fights epic Plymouth RTM duel in the Land Tribunal

Been ripped off over leasehold insurance? Take your complaint to the secret ombudsman, says Peverel

‘Secret ombudsman schemes are so much better for leasehold than licensing managing agents,’ says DCLG

Troy Court £912 leasehold sub-letting fee cut by £400 thanks to LKP (with more to come?)

Lords amendment sneaks regulation of leasehold managing agents into the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill

Tchenguiz falls out with his ex-Israeli intelligence operatives … and now they are suing each other

Jackson leasehold forfeiture taken up by Private Eye, The Oldie, Mail and TV

£912 sub-letting fee demanded at Kensington’s Troy Court – after prostitutes moved in

LKP visitors top 23,000 a month

House of Lords launch for ARMA-Q on May 15

Anchor Trust upsets retirement residents by allowing sub-letting – where the lease prohibits it

One in the Eye from LKP

Fury at ‘life-shattering’ forfeiture case held in a secret court

Dead squirrels in the roof and rivulets of water down the walls … couple feel let down by Peverel

Will a new spin doctor on £90,000 with ‘personal integrity’ work wonders for Peverel?

LKP wins Best Online Editorial at LSL Property Press Awards 2013

Heirs of empty retirement leasehold flat now face doubled council taxes … on top of plummeting re-sale value, on-going service charges and an exit fee if it ever does sell

Daejan v Benson: ‘on the whole good for landlords’

Supreme Court ruling on Daejan v Benson gives freeholders the whip-hand and is ‘a judgment that tenants might consider disappointing’

Epic leasehold battle ends with victory of freeholder in the Supreme Court

Lee Middleburgh quits Peverel ‘to pursue new opportunities’

Dennis Jackson at Plantation Wharf: An £800,000 forfeiture over-turned by LKP

Leasehold pensioner reprieved from forfeiture … but the legal bill is £76,000 and rising

Why does it take 60% of leasehold residents to create a tenants’ association – and only 30% of his constituency to elect Housing Minister Mark Prisk?

Housing minister makes a start with a round-table discussion of leasehold

Chairman of leasehold RMC accused of stealing £1 million

Battersea MP wades into Jackson leasehold forfeiture dispute