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Homes England issued £236k secret fine to shared ownership retirement developer Platinum Skies

Eagerstates: BBC finds £1.2m over-charging in 140 tribunal cases over five years

Three quarters of Churchill Retirement flats have lost money when resold, says The Times

Cladding leaseholder Arjun Batish, with no legal training, fights £200,000 fire safety bills – and wins

Michael Gove’s admission today that regulation failures in part caused Grenfell clears path to final resolution of the building safety crisis

Why not impose a revived Florrie’s Law cap on council major works rather than see leaseholders made homeless?

£100k major works bills wipe out council leaseholders. But why are 40% of Right To Buy homes now owned by investors?

FirstPort faces leasehold rebellion over service charges at St David’s Square

Financial Conduct Authority under pressure to force open secretive insurance commissions, so leaseholders can see what they are paying for

New build flat sales volume has fallen 60% and re-sales trail old and new houses

Demonstrations and going to the press – and involving LKP – improved our situation hugely, say Ballymore leaseholders

Dame Judith Hackitt says cladding leaseholders risk ruin with rip-off charges. She wants to help. But is still at sea over leasehold law …

BBC2 Newsnight special on corrosive leasehold and the building safety crisis … with no minister present at all

And so the building safety crisis lurches towards mass forfeitures …

If government’s is tempted to dither over banning new ground rents, then this woman’s £1m a year for a small flat should clinch it …

Sunday Times: officials trying to gag leaseholders. Daily Mail: Wade funding proposal will crash property market

Grenfell is becoming our worst corporate scandal, says Dominic Lawson in Sunday Times

LKP calls for levy on developers and freeholders over cladding

Only seven cladding sites in Tory constituencies … as Build! Build! Build! developers pour in party donations

Tory councillors and Labour MP back leaseholders in blocking ERE freeholds shoving up two more storeys under Jenrick’s planning give-away

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

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

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

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