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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

‘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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LKP: Start as we mean to go on …

LKP: Start as we mean to go on …
David Marsden Canary Riverside

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

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

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

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

Grenfell is becoming our worst corporate scandal, says Dominic Lawson in Sunday Times
Martin Paine 'crook' MPs told

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

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

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

The Sun attacks ‘fatcat’ housebuilders with inflated fortunes thanks to Help To Buy
E and J Captial Partners

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Latest

Inspired Sutton

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

March 31, 2023

First time the property tribunal rules in favour of leaseholders under the Building Safety Act Arjun Batish, 32, a leaseholder…

Category: Latest News, News, PressTag: Arjun Batish, Inspired Asset Management, Inspired Sutton, Judge Timothy Powell, Ruth Bloomfield, Siobhan McGrath, The Times

St David's Square

Victory over FirstPort at St David’s Square with £100,000s to be re-payed to leaseholders over insurance and leasing of ancient door entry system

March 30, 2023

But will landlord try to dump its legal costs on the non-participating leaseholders? Leaseholders at St David’s Square, a prime…

Category: FirstPort, Latest News, Liam Spender, News, Property tribunalTag: FirstPort, Liam Spender, St David's Square

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News

Bungling operations manager and directors at retirement site Dibleys Heritage signed £66,000 a year energy deal incorrectly – and have cost leaseholders £40,000 in legal fees

March 16, 2023

Category: Latest News, News, RetirementTag: Charles Knapper, David Johnston MP, Dibleys Heritage, RWK Goodman, Section 20

Building Safety Bill

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

March 15, 2023

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Abbey Developments, Avant, Ballymore, Dandara, Emerson Group (Jones Homes), Galliard, Inland Homes, Lendlease, London Square, Michael Gove, Rydon Homes, Telford Homes

FirstPort blows a fuse: Why are energy subsidies absent from the £265,784 electricity bills – an increase of 154% – at St David’s Square, tribunal is asked

March 15, 2023

Category: FirstPort, Latest News, News, Property tribunalTag: Energy Bill Relief Scheme, FirstPort, JB Leitch, Judge Vance, Kully Sahdra, Liam Spender, Miriam Seifert, St David's Square

Property rip-off ‘Whack-a-mole’: Now it’s your chance to tell CMA about fleecehold

March 13, 2023

Category: Fleecehold, Latest News, NewsTag: Andy Carter MP, CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, Fleecehold, Greenbelt Group Limited, Justin Madders MP, Professor Susan Bright, Steinbeck Grange, Welsh Government

You could not make it up: Estates and Management faces strike-off over late accounts!

March 6, 2023

Category: Latest News, News, TchenguizTag: Estates and Management, JB Leitch, Vincent Tchenguiz

Lee Rowley

Dismal picture of leasehold emerges from MPs’ debate. But no government commitment on reforms

March 1, 2023

Category: Fleecehold, Justin Madders MP, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: ABC Estates, Andy Carter MP, Apsana Begum MP, Barry Gardiner MP, Competition and Markets Authority, Financial Conduct Authority, FirstPort, Fleecehold, Florence Eshalomi MP, Hallmark Premier Estates, Justin Madders MP, Lee Rowley MP, Matthew Pennycook, Matthew Pennycook MP, Mike Amesbury MP, Munira Wilson MP, Nigel Wilkins, Sir Peter Bottomley, Steinbeck Grange, Stephen McPartland MP

Barry Gardner

MPs briefing: Stop trying to reform leasehold. Just bring it to an end, and join the rest of the world

February 27, 2023

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Justin Madders MP

New Estate Management thrown out of Property Ombudsman for not paying £1,000 award

February 10, 2023

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: Adam New, IRPM, New Estate Management, The Property Ombudsman

Deadline today for freeholders to declare offshore beneficial ownership

January 31, 2023

Category: Latest News, News, William Waldorf AstorTag: Abacus Land, Abacus Land 4 Limited, Armalytix, Heysmoor Heights, Long Harbour, Mike Ward, Putin, Register of Overseas Entities

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National Leasehold Campaign

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News Archive

Mr Spender goes to war over St David’s Square service charges … and landlord caves in over more than £100,000 buildings insurance commissions on eve of tribunal

January 30, 2023

Category: FirstPort, JB Leitch, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Berkeley, Countryside Contracts, FirstPort, FIT Nominee 2 Limited, FIT Nominee Limited, JB Leitch, Liam Spender, NatWest Group plc, RBS, St David's Square

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

January 29, 2023

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, PressTag: Cladding scandal, Dame Judith Hackitt, Dean Buckner, Grenfell cladding, Health and Safety Executive, Lakanal House, Liam Spender, Lucy Brown-Cortes, Michael Gove, Ronnie King OBE, Sir David Amess, The Sunday Times, Welsh Government

After seven efforts at reform – with more on the way – Sections 21 and 22 of Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 are still flawed service charge protections

January 26, 2023

Category: APPG, Latest News, News, Property tribunalTag: Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, Rawdon Crozier, Sections 21 and 22

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

January 25, 2023

Category: Latest News, Local authority leasehold, News, PressTag: BBC, Florrie's law, Islington, Local authority leasehold, The Guardian, Thurrock

Spare a thought for the forgotten Welsh building safety cladding victims

January 18, 2023

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Welsh Cladiators, Welsh Government

John Christodoulou ‘lamentable’ lack of transparency over excessive £1.6m insurance costs at Canary Riverside

January 6, 2023

Category: Canary Riverside, Insurance, John Christodoulou, Latest News, NewsTag: Angie Jezard, Canary Riverside, Canary Riverside Estate Management Limited, Financial Conduct Authority, Financial Times, John Christodoulou, Justin Bates, Reich, Westminster Management Services, Yianis Group

Railpen: We don’t want to invest in ground rents anymore because ‘there is a consumer on the far end’

January 4, 2023

Category: Latest News, News

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

December 22, 2022

Category: Latest News, Local authority leasehold, News, PressTag: Local authority leasehold, Right to Buy, Tom Copley

At last a housing minister who seems to want to reform leasehold, and knows legal costs are being gamed to keep freeholders on top

December 15, 2022

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Lord Greenhalgh, Lucy Frazer MP, Michael Gove, Sir Peter Bottomley

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)

December 15, 2022

Category: Latest News, News, Parliament, Shared ownershipTag: Metropolitan and Thames Valley Housing, Sue Phillips

Another buy-to-let leaseholder landlord faces ruin over building safety costs

December 14, 2022

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Buy-to-let, Michael Gove

RMC / RTM directors threaten mass resignation if ‘building safety directors’ are imposed

December 9, 2022

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Baz Jafar, Giles Grover, Jim Illingworth, Martin Boyd

As the tide turns on UK property, any sympathy for this baby boomer investor: ‘I own three cladding flats and two other investment properties. I am considering bankruptcy …’

December 8, 2022

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News

Wyldecrest thwarts attempts by park home activist Tony Turner to provide statement of accounts in upper property tribunal

December 1, 2022

Category: Latest News, News, Park Homes, Sir Peter BottomleyTag: Park Home Owners Justice Campaign, Sir Peter Bottomley, Sonia McColl OBE, Tony Turner, Wyldecrest

Park home demonstrators demand end to 10% sales fees – as litany of crooked practice reported to MPs

November 29, 2022

Category: Latest News, News, Park HomesTag: Ben Spencer MP, Heather Wheeler MP, Justin Madders MP, Mark Tami MP, Mary Robinson MP, Number 10, Park Home Owners Justice Campaign, Park homes, Paul Baker, Robert Courts MP, Robin Millar MP, Sir Peter Bottomley, Sonia McColl OBE, Steve Brine MP, Tony Turner, William Tandoh

Richard Davidoff

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

November 1, 2022

Category: Latest News, News, Richard DavidoffTag: Paul Cleaver, Richard Davidoff, Section 24 manager, Urang

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

November 1, 2022

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: ARC Time Freehold Income, Arthur J Gallagher, Consensus Business Group, Cox Braithwaite, E&J Estates, E&M Estates, FCA, Financial Conduct Authority, FirstPort, Ground Rents Income Fund plc, Homeground Management Limited, Knight Square, Long Harbour, Rendall and Rittner, Simarc, Wallace Partnership Group

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

October 31, 2022

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: FCA, Financial Conduct Authority, 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

October 28, 2022

Category: JB Leitch, Latest News, NewsTag: Alpha Real Capital LLP, ARC Time Freehold Income, ARMA, BDO, Berkeley St George, Building safety fund, Consensus Business Group, Countryside Communications, FirstPort, Freehold Managers, IRPM, JB Leitch, Mick Platt, Residential Freehold Association, St David's Square, Wallace Partnership Group, William Kenneth Procter

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

October 24, 2022

Category: Israel Moskovitz, Justin Bates, Latest News, Moskovitz / Gurvits, NewsTag: Avon Freeholds, Canary Riverside, Israel Moskovitz, John Christodoulou, Joseph Gurvits, Justin Bates, Rebecca Cattermole, West India Quay

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

October 13, 2022

Category: HomeSlider, Latest News, NewsTag: Sir Ken Knight

Rendall and Rittner

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

September 29, 2022

Category: Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Duncan Rendall, Erika Martinson, L E Lundbergsforetagen AB, Matt Rittner, Rendall and Rittner, Wexford HoldCo

Compass Point

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

September 27, 2022

Category: Insurance, Latest News, Liam Spender, News

Leasehold insurance: 17 years of FCA regulatory failure

September 25, 2022

Category: Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: Financial Conduct Authority, Insurance

Full news archive

Astor's empire

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

September 12, 2022

Category: Bellway, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, National Leasehold Campaign, News, Shared ownership, Taylor Wimpey, William Waldorf AstorTag: Bellway Homes, Ground rents, Home Ground Management Limited, Long Harbour, Melissa York, Taylor Wimpey, The Sunday Times

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 … ?

August 13, 2022

Category: E&J Capital Partners, Latest News, News, Tchenguiz, William Waldorf AstorTag: ConservativeHome, Count Luca Rinaldo Contardo Padulli, E&J Capital Partners, James Tuttiett, Long Harbour, Mick Platt, Pier Management, Regis Group plc, Vincent Tchenguiz, Wallace Partnership Group, Will Astor

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

March 18, 2022

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Tchenguiz, William Waldorf AstorTag: Abacus Land, Adriatic Land, Brigante Properties, CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, Countryside Properties plc, Redrow, Vincent Tchenguiz, William Waldorf Astor

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

February 13, 2022

Category: Cladding scandal, E&J Capital Partners, Latest News, News, Sinclair Gardens Investments, William Waldorf AstorTag: Adriatic Land, Andrew Charles Bacon, Cladding scandal, Dr Matthew Offord MP, E&J Capital Partners, E&J Estates, Fairview New Homes, Fletcher Court, Hallmark Property Group Limited, Hutchison Whampoa, James Tuttiett, Li Ka-shing, Long Harbour, Paul Chevalier, Pulse Colindale, Sinclair Gardens, William Waldorf Astor

Countryside Properties plc

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

July 1, 2021

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, E&J Capital Partners, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Persimmon, Redrow, Taylor Wimpey, Tchenguiz, William Waldorf AstorTag: Aviva, Barratt, Bellway Homes, Bovis Homes, CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, Countryside Properties plc, Jason Honeyman, Persimmon, Pier Management

Long Harbour Board

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

November 23, 2020

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, William Waldorf Astor

Sir Peter Bottomley furious

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

October 1, 2020

Category: Latest News, News, Parliament, Tchenguiz, William Waldorf AstorTag: Christopher Pincher MP, Clive Betts MP, Kevin Hollinrake MP, Mike Amesbury MP, Robert Jenrick, Ruth Cadbury MP, Sir Bob Neill MP, Sir Peter Bottomley, Tchenguiz Family Trust, Theresa Villiers MP, Vincent Tchenguiz, William Waldorf Astor

Tchenguiz Long Harbour Padulli

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

August 1, 2020

Category: Commonhold, Latest News, News, Tchenguiz, William Waldorf AstorTag: Count Luca Rinaldo Contardo Padulli, Long Harbour, Rebalancing the relationship between freeholder and leaseholder, Scotland, Tchenguiz Family Trust, Vincent Tchenguiz, Wallace Partnership Group, William Waldorf Astor

Skyline Central HPL cladding

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

May 31, 2020

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, William Waldorf AstorTag: Adriatic Land, Adriatic Land 3 Limited, Ballymore, Cladding scandal, Covid-19, Donal Mulryan, Skyline Central

fatcat freeholders

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

February 24, 2020

Category: Cladding scandal, HomeSlider, Latest News, News, William Waldorf AstorTag: James Tuttiett, Long Harbour, Richard Silva, Waking watch contracts

Rebecca Long-Bailey leasehold

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

February 12, 2020

Category: Latest News, News, William Waldorf AstorTag: Ground rents, Long Harbour, Rebecca Long-Bailey MP, Will Astor, William Waldorf Astor

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 …

December 7, 2019

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, NewsFeaturedStory, William Waldorf AstorTag: CK Hutchison Holdings, Crosby Textor, Hutchison Whampoa, Li Ka-shing, Long Harbour, Sir Lynton Crosby, Sir Peter Bottomley, The Times, Viscount Astor, William Waldorf Astor

More and more Astor’s empire

Local authority leasehold

Hackney EWS1 charge

Hackney charges leaseholders £750 for EWS1

December 4, 2020

Category: Latest News, Local authority leasehold, NewsTag: Hackney

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

October 12, 2020

Category: Latest News, Local authority leasehold, NewsTag: Covid-19, Florrie's law, Harry Scoffin, Homes for Haringey, Local authority leasehold, Major works, Section 20, The Guardian

Clairon Property Ombudsman

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

September 7, 2020

Category: Housing associations, Latest News, Local authority leasehold, NewsTag: A2Dominion, EWS1, Harry Scoffin, Housing associations, Housing Ombudsman, Law Commission, Local authority leasehold, Notting Hill Genesis, Peabody, Professor Nick Hopkins, Shared ownership, Southwark, Southwark Council, Southwark Homeowner Council

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

June 1, 2020

Category: Cladding scandal, Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, Housing associations, Latest News, Law Commission, Local authority leasehold, MHCLG, NewsTag: Cladding scandal, CMA, DCLG, Eric Pickles, Florrie's law, Grant Shapps, Housing associations, James Brokenshire MP, Law Commission, LEASE, Major works, Martin Boyd, MHCLG, Notting Hill Genesis, OFT, Robert Jenrick, Sajid Javid, Section 20, Shared ownership

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

May 18, 2020

Category: Justin Bates, Latest News, Local authority leasehold, NewsTag: Building safety reform, Dame Judith Hackitt, Fire safety, Giles Peaker, Harry Scoffin, Joshua Dubin, Justin Bates, Local authority leasehold, Major works, Oxford City Council, Professor Susan Bright, Section 20

Helen Hayes leasehold

Southwark announces new bills … and no funds for leaseholder group

March 19, 2020

Category: Latest News, Local authority leasehold, NewsTag: Amanda Gourlay, Cath Williams, Communities Select Committee, Florrie's law, Helen Hayes MP, Katie Kendrick, Mari Knowles, Martin Boyd, Michelle Baharier, National Leasehold Campaign, Southwark Council, Southwark Homeowner Council

Emma Lunn Help To Buy

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

February 10, 2020

Category: Latest News, Local authority leasehold, News, PressTag: Emma Lunn, Harry Scoffin, Local authority leasehold, Major works, Michelle Baharier, Section 20, The Guardian

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

November 14, 2019

Category: Latest News, Local authority leasehold, NewsTag: Andrew Wood, Canary Riverside, Commonhold, Harry Scoffin, John Christodoulou, Tower Hamlets, West India Quay

Southwark Meeting

Southwark hosts meeting of 350 council leaseholders

October 11, 2019

Category: Latest News, Local authority leasehold, NewsTag: Harry Scoffin, Mari Knowles, Martin Boyd, Martin Green, Nicholas Kissen, Siobhan McCrath, Southwark Council, Southwark Homeowner Council

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

August 29, 2019

Category: Latest News, Local authority leasehold, NewsTag: Harrow Council, Local authority leasehold

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

April 24, 2019

Category: Latest News, Local authority leasehold, News, PressTag: Clarion, Evening Standard

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

October 31, 2018

Category: Justin Bates, Latest News, Law Commission, Local authority leasehold, LVT/Property Chamber Survival, News, Philip Rainey QC, Property tribunalTag: Harriet Harman MP, James Brokenshire MP, Justin Bates, Major works, Mari Knowles, Michelle Baharier, Philip Rainey QC, Section 20, Southwark Council

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