Communities Select Committee

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

Hackitt and Knight back dumping unregulated sector-insider ‘building safety managers’ onto leaseholders at £60,000 a year, MPs told

Communities Select Committee calls on government to scrap cladding loan scheme and establish a ‘Comprehensive Building Safety Fund’

Commons Select Committee hears just how little the government understands of the Building Safety Crisis and leasehold law

Select Committee none the wiser over cladding forced loan schemes

MPs attack government for dumping historic building failures onto leaseholders

Greenhalgh to dump ‘affordable’ cladding bills on leaseholders, which they were promised AGAIN and AGAIN would not happen …

Self-interested freeholders and property managers chorus: ‘taxpayer must pay over cladding’ … which, as it happens, leaves their income streams untouched

Dame Judith Hackitt’s uninterest in leasehold tenure is like ‘wanting to build cars with no idea how they are driven’, says LKP

Sector says ‘no, thanks’ to controversial Building Safety Bill

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

Greenhalgh to Communities Select Committee: 1,700 non-ACM cladding blocks at high risk and some waking watch costs are ‘usurious’

March 23: Cladding showdown begins, with Communities Select Committee questioning Tchenguiz group … and LKP

‘The genie is out of the bottle,’ three lawyers solemnly explain to industry insiders in Estates Gazette

Communities Select Committee reject the lobbying nonsense of the freeholders’ good behaviour ‘pledge’

Competition and Markets Authority cannot investigate leasehold mis-selling because of Brexit, Brokenshire told

Communities Select Committee MPs issue devastating report into the toxic leasehold system

Taxpayer subsidy via Help To Buy for leasehold houses to run until 2021, MPs told

Taxpayer boost for offshore speculators as Help To Buy lands 17,000 home buyers in leasehold

Scorn for housing minister’s evidence to Select Committee

Lawyers to Communities Select Committee: Stop ‘sticking plaster reforms’. End ‘draconian’ forfeiture. £10 ground rents a ‘mistake’. Make legal costs fair to leaseholders. Commonhold failed because developers make money out of leasehold …

Can the Leasehold Advisory Service monopoly survive devastating questioning by Select Committee?

Anonymous freeholders are the reliable long-term custodians of blocks of flats, Select Committee is told

Communities Select Committee lifts the lid on the residential freehold racket

Leaseholders urge Clive Betts MP to quiz housebuilders over ground rent review schemes