Secretariat of the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold reform

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Will Astor

‘Cameron’s brother-in-law Will Astor and the toxic leasehold scandal’, Daily Mail

David Marsden Canary Riverside

Canary Riverside’s lawyers at Trowers & Hamlins in ‘ill-conceived’ bid to thwart Parliamentary debate

E and J Captial Partners

Pensioner paid £38,000 for Taylor Wimpey freehold to ground rent speculators E&J Capital Partners

Martin Paine 'crook' MPs told

Martin Paine ‘is a crook who is turning sleaze in leases into an art form’, MPs told

Spire View commonhold

Spire View, in Pickering, shows a commonhold future with no leases at all, says Sunday Times

The Sun attacks ‘fatcat’ housebuilders with inflated fortunes thanks to Help To Buy

Claude Wehrle, Claude Schmidt Gwenaëlle Derrendinger)

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

forfeiture by neighbour

Neighbour forfeits leaseholder’s £600,000 London maisonette for putting in a new bathroom

Thea Gilmore leaseholders

LKP: Start as we mean to go on …

Roy Wilshire

Getting Cayman Islands freeholders to help with cladding crisis is an additional difficulty, says UK’s top fire chief

McCarthy and Stone resale values

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

Persimmon sleaze

Persimmon sold leasehold houses for £50,000 more than same-size freehold houses at Harrow View West

Onslow Square forfeiture

Wellcome Trust spends £114,000 on lawyers to defeat Onslow Square leaseholder in £6,000 dispute

Sir Peter Bototmley Leasehold Advisory Service

‘If I fail to offend anyone, I will do it next time,’ Bottomley tells appalled leasehold professionals at LEASE annual conference

Sun shines on the leaseholders’ demo at Parliament: after Jenrick, is this a new dawn?

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Richard Davidoff

Richard Davidoff given the boot as section 24 court appointed manager after expulsion from ARMA, IRPM and Propertymark

Richard Davidoff was removed earlier this month as the section 24 court appointed manager of 178 Holland Road in west…

FCA authorised firms that are coining more than 40% profits out of leasehold insurance, and here’s how:

£26.7m earned by FCA authorised firms owned by managing agents in years 2016-2021 with net profit margins hitting 73% Managing…

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News

LKP’s response to the Financial Conduct Authority report on leasehold buildings insurance

St David's Square

FirstPort jacks up accounting fees at St David’s Square by 80% … and then bodges accounts, leaving leaseholders overcharged by more than £17,500

Israel Moskovitz loses appeal on right to charge £36 a pop for collecting his ground rents

If freeholders can’t pay to remediate ‘their’ buildings, they should lose the freeholds and the income streams that come with them

Rendall and Rittner

Rendall & Rittner makes nearly £1 million a year in gas and electricity commissions

Compass Point

FCA report on insurance in leasehold blocks: what does it propose and why does it matter?

Leasehold insurance: 17 years of FCA regulatory failure

Westminster Forum: rare meeting where freeholders, leaseholders, professionals actually discussed leasehold reform … together

Compass Point

Compass Point faces insurance price hike from £12,000 to £250,000, with 21 days to pay the bill

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National Leasehold Campaign

This is the most effective forum for leaseholders ever created. It is on Facebook, founded by Katie Kendrick, Cath Williams and Jo Darbyshire – who are also all trustees of LKP. The three have established an invaluable campaign group for leaseholders

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South Cliff Tower and Southdown Surveyors regarded £3m repairs consultation as ‘something to be endured’ rather than ‘influence decision making’

When inflation linked ground rents are worse than ten-year doubling ones. That would be now …

Pier / Regis: ‘Pay up £120 for subletting!’ But it says £50 in the lease. ‘Tribunal. Legal costs. Forfeiture … er, alright, we will take £50. Same dance next year? …’

French resi service group Emeria clears out FirstPort management in take-over

More than 20,000 leaseholders benefit from CMA action over ground rent mis-selling

Steinbeck Grange

Barratt off the hook from CMA over mis-selling leasehold homes

Sophie Hicks

Leaseholders duck £430,000 legal bill to block celebrity architect Sophie Hick’s underground house next door

Mick Platt

Can’t we hear why leasehold reform is bad straight from the top: from Count Padulli, or Will Astor, or James Tuttiett, or the Gould brothers, or Vincent Tchenguiz … ?

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

Michael Stainer

Rogue freeholder Michael Stainer imprisoned for three years

Greg Clark MP

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

Tory Treasurer Lord Leigh and Priti Patel’s family accused of gaming the opportunities of leasehold

Privatising housing estates: what’s the problem?

ABC Estates

Richard Davidoff ex-employees apologise for libel, meanwhile fines against ABC Estates pile up

Conservatives and RICS kicked back at insurance kickbacks in 2006. Unfortunately, they did nothing about it – and here we are

ABC Estates

Two former employees of ABC Estates ‘face £60,000 each in costs after libel claim, and must apologise in open court’

Poltair Homes

Nothing to do with us, says Poltair Homes CEO, over 80 blighted shared ownership houses in Cornwall

Note to Mr Gove: FSA was warning of ‘reputational risk’ in not cracking down on secret leasehold insurance commissions 17 years ago!

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

Lendlease

Michael Gove gets the cartel of taxpayer subsidised housebuilders to pay up £5bn towards the building safety scandal … but not Lendlease or Galliard

JB Leitch

Leasehold debt collector JB Leitch received £470,000 furlough, and paid out a £500,000 dividend to owners

Michael Gove: Is this the robust inquiry into leasehold insurance fiddles that you wanted from the FCA?

Platinum Skies

Retirement housebuilder Platinum Skies breached shared ownership rules with onerous ‘staircasing’ charges in the lease

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Astor's empire

CMA slaps down doubling ground rents of 15 punters who bought cheating freeholds from Countryside Properties plc

Fletcher Court

Hallmark Property Group seeks to put 44 flats worth £15m on top of a block with ACM cladding, waking watch, a B2 rating after EWS1 … and 75 utterly stressed out leaseholders

Countryside Properties plc

National Leasehold Campaign email dump urges developers to settle up like Aviva and Persimmon have done with CMA

Long Harbour Board

Oh, dear! Long Harbour private equity speculators buy freehold where ground rent FALLS from £250 to £143

Sir Peter Bottomley furious

MPs fail to stop Robert Jenrick’s multi-billion pound planning hand-out to offshore freeholders

Tchenguiz Long Harbour Padulli

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

Skyline Central HPL cladding

Long Harbour’s Adriatic Land backs leaseholders at Skyline Central 1 to get public money for HPL removal

fatcat freeholders

Fatcat freeholders SHAMED by MHCLG for having no plan to remove Grenfell cladding from their buildings include Long Harbour and James Tuttiett

Rebecca Long-Bailey leasehold

Rebecca Long-Bailey asks Will Astor why Long Harbour is demanding £10,000 to vary toxic doubling ground rent leases

Does Li Ka-shing own your Adriatic freehold, or Hutchison Whampoa, or billionaire Frank Sixt, or Astor? Only Long Harbour knows, and it’s not saying …

Ending ground rents will hurt leaseholders, says Long Harbour …

Boris’s PR gurus Crosby Textor have NOT been nobbling government over ground rents (well, not since autumn 2017 anyway …)

More and more Astor’s empire

Local authority leasehold

Hackney EWS1 charge

Hackney charges leaseholders £750 for EWS1

Florrie’s Law fails again as Haringey council dumps £100,000 bills on leaseholders in the midst of the Covid-19 disaster

Clairon Property Ombudsman

Housing Ombudsman names and shames social landlords ‘consistently wrong’ with leaseholders and shared owners

An open letter to Robert Jenrick: the costs of delayed leasehold reform

Academic bars Oxford City Council from entering his flat to finish major works

Helen Hayes leasehold

Southwark announces new bills … and no funds for leaseholder group

Emma Lunn Help To Buy

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

Tory trailblazers get Tower Hamlets to come out for commonhold in London first

Southwark Meeting

Southwark hosts meeting of 350 council leaseholders

Harrow to hit council leaseholders with £4,500 fire safety bills

Hurray! Clarion leaseholders fight £32,000 major works bills

Lawyers offer pro bono aid to leaseholder facing QC in £24,000 dispute in Upper Tribunal

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