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42 MPs back Starmer’s attempt to block rooftop planning give-away to freeholders

Settle up with doubling ground rent victims or see you in court next year, CMA tells house builders

Building Safety Bill means … leaseholders are going to have to pay a lot of money to clear up the mess of other people

Land Registry publishes new data on leasehold and fleecehold deals to help buyers and nudge Rightmove

Lords warn government of “tidal wave of protest” at new right for freeholders to add extra floors without permission

Report from Tchenguiz Family Trust, Long Harbour and Wallace Estates seeks to side-line leasehold reforms by fear-mongering over fire safety

Beware ‘MacDUFF’ Scottish consumer-friendly land laws, say freeholders in lobbying report to save their incomes

Louie Burns’ ‘passion for justice’ praised in Commons by Justin Madders MP

After 60 consultations, Bottomley told ‘when parliamentary time allows’ for reforms promised three years ago

Is ‘Chapman’ the new ‘Daejan’?

Andover asphalt major works war sees landlord forced to pay for leaseholders’ expert

Law Commission reports offer blueprint to demolish monetising landlordism in residential leasehold

Pensioners in former pit village fight ground rents rising from £10 a year to £1,100pa (after a demand for £2,450pa was rejected)

Has The Times report ended bnb raves at West India Quay – where landlord John Christodoulou and manager Rendall and Rittner failed?

Fewer leaseholders’ rights would help make buildings safe, L&Q tells MPs

To build 8,120 new flats: Government gifts freeholders £41bn, devalues flats by £200m … and torpedoes leasehold reform

MHCLG officials tell MPs: Don’t know costs of waking watch. No idea that at least three cladding sites are uninsured. We are not to blame but ‘30 years of developer failures’

Barratt’s £15.8m bill at Citiscape … and £70m bill for all cladding sites

Insiders carve up code of practice for property managers – having been silent on systemic abuses for years!

Two-storey planning windfall means billions for freeholders, reports The Times

Barking Riverside fire survivors round on secretive freeholder Adriatic Land, reports BBC R4

Has Jenrick just handed £1bn each to Astor, Tchenguiz and Wallace Estates with two-storey planning gift?

United Nations criticises UK government’s approach to the cladding crisis

FirstPort and Mainstay unite to create ‘monster’ management company controlling 275,000 flats

Solicitor leaseholder may lose Chelsea flat used as brothel

Louie Burns, LKP trustee, dies

Apsana Begum takes to Zoom to help trapped Poplar and Limehouse cladding victims

Cladding leaseholders: Please complete survey on EWS for MPs

Justin Madders urges Redrow founder Steve Morgan to speed along EWS1 form so leaseholder can sell flat

At last, some sense over the cladding crisis from … Rob Perrins, of the Berkeley Group

Pincher defends absent Jenrick in bad tempered Commons clash over Richard Desmond £1bn planning scandal

Communities Select Committee: cladding blocks still doing nothing by December should have their freehold removed

23% of cladding leaseholders have considered suicide or self-harm, says compelling UKCAG report