Parliament

Government announces service charge reforms … with as much enthusiasm as a visit to the dentist

MPs step forward in the new All Party Parliamentary Group for leasehold and commonhold reform

Path is set to kill off leasehold and replace it with commonhold

Leasehold Bill: What a missed opportunity, with just about every MP wanting to go further …

Dump the two-storey ‘ill-considered’ planning give-away to freeholders, says Sir Julian Lewis

Insurance pooling to lessen leasehold insurance bills appears to have stalled – but not commissions – says Sir Stephen Timms

We promised ‘fairness and transparency for leaseholders’ so let’s do it, says Bob Blackman

MPs call for fleecehold of private estates to be stamped out

Clive Betts: removing onerous ground rents is ‘completely compatible with the European convention on human rights’

Is Gove an empty vessel making the loudest noise? asks Samantha Dixon. And where is Lord Best’s report on regulating property managers?

‘Even Del Boy had limits, Mr Moskovitz,’ Stella Creasy tells MPs

Stop this ‘bad freeholders’ nonsense. Abuse in leasehold is organised, trained and systemic, says Ruth Cadbury MP

Lee Rowley and Matthew Pennycook duel political points over leasehold reform Bill

Freeholders cried crocodile tears for old ladies and said the pensions sector would be destabilised, says former housing minister. (And commonhold is ready to roll …)

Michael Gove: ‘squeeze every income stream that freeholders have’. Parliament debates leasehold reform Bill

Our parliamentary briefing on the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill

Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill: the most important part of the enfranchisement bit is missing

Work with this leasehold reform Bill, or wait for Utopia? Minimum: another 3 more years

What is the point of this government, asks Lisa Nandy as it wriggles over promised leasehold reforms

Leasehold reforms this parliamentary session, says minister

Interview with Lord Greenhalgh: I don’t think the leasehold reforms will be in the King’s Speech

Galliard and Lendlease were quick to get leaseholders on the hook for building safety bills, now they won’t sign Michael Gove’s agreement to pay up

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

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)

Greenhalgh’s farewell to APPG: ‘I have a commonhold flat and there is nothing to fear its widespread adoption to replace leasehold’

No ‘backsliding’ on Gove’s £3bn building safety levy, says his successor Greg Clark

Labour’s Lisa Nandy taunts Tories over ‘feudal’ leaseholds. Meanwhile, PM channels Thatcher to revive enfranchisement plans

MPs join leaseholders at protest to ensure no one is left facing building safety cash calls

Will government dump Dame Judith Hackitt’s £60,000 a year building safety managers job creation scheme?

Leaseholders helped over building safety crisis is now a ‘bizarre lucky dip’, say MPs

After cladding leaseholders issue damning report into housing associations’ response, housing minister Lord Greenhalgh lashes out at ‘sanctity of social housing providers that have built rubbish’