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Leasehold activist told OFT exit fee deal with Tchenguiz also includes Proxima

Mechanised plagiarism and psycho-babble manuals are Grant Shapps’ little earner outside politics

Grant Shapps cuts Wikipedia references to property tycoons’ donations to his private office

OFT cuts deal with Tchenguiz on leasehold retirement sub-letting fees, but exit fees on sale still stand

Leaseholders should beware cheapo managing agents

OFT announcement on exit fees not as ‘substantive’ as we all hoped … oh, and the timing has ‘slipped’

Why we resigned from ARMA, by LKP managing agent

Rendall and Rittner ‘confident’ to prevent another Simon Van Houten fraudster

‘Legal torture’ pensioners settle for £68,500 … but two of the original leasehold applicants have since died

Welsh government to investigate leasehold abuses

Dispatches reveals the cheating that lies at the heart of leasehold

The Guardian takes up issue of leasehold

CentreForum think tank urges £2 per flat owner to regulate leasehold

‘Some of the worst spivs in property are in leasehold,’ LKP tells The Times

FT also carries report on leasehold today

Radio Four Today programme highlights leaseholder “rip-offs”

Countdown to a media storm over leasehold

Property Nightmare: The Truth About Leaseholds on Channel Four August 20 at 8pm

Oh, and why does Shapps want to regulate park homes and not leasehold, even though the issues are so similar?

Grant Shapps and Siobhan McGrath face TV cameras today

Green MP wades in to help leaseholders facing £30,000 legal bills

Grant Thornton had ‘direct interest’ in the Tchenguiz arrests, which should have been revealed

Solicitors squabble in High Court, while leaseholders face a £30,000 right to manage legal bill

Informed leaseholders increase LVT actions by 165 per cent

Sub-letting leasehold flats should be around £40, LVT rules quoting precedent

Fraudster managing agent gets 30 months jail for using East Londoners’ cash to fund high life in Chelsea

We won’t protect leaseholders’ funds even after Van Houten’s theft because … that was the last government’s idea

Leaseholders’ meeting in Worthing this evening (July 25)

Baroness Gardner calls for leaseholders’ money held by managing agents to be protected

Van Houten abused trust of clients and colleagues, says Rendall and Rittner

OFT to make ‘substantive announcement’ on exit fees in August

Rogue managing agent, who stole £122,000, claimed to be MIRPM qualified … and helped colleagues pass the exams

Sort out LVTs and keep on exposing leasehold ‘legal torture’, Sir Peter Bottomley tells the Commons