Press

Has Jenrick been saved by the Cummings furore for rushing through approval of 1,500 home Docklands scheme that would have handed £40m to former publisher Richard Desmond?

Brindley House cladding leaseholders face eviction, reports BBC R4 You and Yours

The Times reports criticisms of Jenrick’s two-storey planning windfall to what he called ‘egregious’ freeholders

CMA’s devastating report on leasehold mis-selling echoes the Communities Select Committee, says Clive Betts MP

Telegraph reports plummeting value of shared ownership flats

‘Worst building safety scandal in modern history’

‘Predatory investors’ prey on cladding sites that government advice made valueless

The Times saturation coverage of cladding scandal

Right-to-buy owners are also being ripped off by the leasehold system, The Guardian reports

Law Commission lost its way with human rights for offshore hedge funds, says BBC’s Paul Lewis

BBC R4 MoneyBox told Grenfell cladding cash difficult to get and does not cover waking watch

Moneywise does a thorough job reporting leasehold

Marriage value a bogus profit in the £2.5bn enfranchisement racket, LKP trustee Dean Buckner tells BBC

Does Dominic Cumming’s gung-ho planning idea put a hole in Law Commission’s enfranchisement reforms by boosting freehold values?

New fire safety certificate to unlock UK high-rise flat market after Advice Notice 14 resulted in valuations of zero, FT reports

LKP trustees Katie Kendrick and Louie Burns tell Sky News and BBC R4 MoneyBox of ‘David and Goliath’ fight for freeholds

Leaseholder of £3m pad in central London demands £100 a day off Gerald Ronson for no internet

Families challenge Long Harbour for freeholds to Bellway leasehold houses, The Times reports

Grenfell United link up with leaseholder groups to protest cladding crisis and warn next government of Grenfell 2

Would you want your former Prudential pension invested in Tchenguiz ground rents by Rothesay Life? FT reports concerns

Taxpayers funding two leasehold houses a day in 2019 through Help To Buy … despite government saying THREE times they should be banned

The Times reports that families ‘lost £3 billion’ on resale of leasehold retirement flats, while developers and freehold speculators made millions

After ground rents and cladding … now lenders won’t touch rip-off ‘fleecehold’ properties either, BBC reports

Cladding crisis: How worse can it get?

NLC conveyancing report on BBC R4 You and Yours today

Fairview New Homes cancels sale as buyer wanted own solicitor and mortgage broker, says Times

Redrow: ‘shoddy workmanship and leasehold games’, but bumper profits from Help To Buy

John McDonnell is a leaseholder, reveals Daily Mail in hatchet job article

Leaseholders pay up to 60% more for buildings insurance because of secret commissions, reports The Times

Ending ground rents will hurt leaseholders, says Long Harbour …

The i newspaper links leasehold ‘slums of the future’ to Help To Buy and the Tchenguiz Family Trust

Victoria Derbyshire Show reports the toll of leasehold miseries on mental health

Leaseholders to sue government over fire safety measures