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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

Shapps: ‘I have not ruled out making changes to leasehold’

HML group with 33,500 units under management joins LKP

Head of Peverel Retirement quits

Cameron wades into retirement row in his own backyard … but what about those who don’t live in his constituency?

Free leaseholders’ conference in Worthing on July 25

Wartime squadron leader, aged 94, chalks up £11,500 victory over Peverel

Janet Entwistle: ‘Problems with Peverel’s reputation, but we are in it for the long term’

Executive guilty of plundering £122,000 from managing agents Rendall and Rittner

LEASE denies seeking bungs to pass ordinary leaseholders on to professional services

Janet Entwistle: ‘There are problems with Peverel’s reputation, but new owners are in it for the long term’

Managing agents owned by landlords must come clean … says leading managing agent

TV documentary on retirement industry needs help

First task for ARMA’s ethical panel: examine ARMA itself

Sub-letting: LKP trials a simple scheme that benefits all

Bungs ‘r’ Us: £250,000 ‘incentive payments’ offered to managing agents

£30,000 bill for RTM ‘fiasco’