Secretariat of the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold reform

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

Will Astor

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

Claude Wehrle, Claude Schmidt Gwenaëlle Derrendinger)

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

Spire View commonhold

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 …

E and J Captial Partners

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

Persimmon sleaze

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

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

forfeiture by neighbour

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

Onslow Square forfeiture

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

David Marsden Canary Riverside

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

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

Roy Wilshire

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

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Leaseholders defeat landlord trying to dodge consultation over a section 20 dispute in Court of Appeal

Liam Spender is a Trustee of the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership. Personally affected by the cladding scandal, Liam is a Solicitor-Advocate…

Enough is enough! Ballymore must pay!

About 150 leaseholders demonstrated in Docklands on Saturday following the fire the day before at Ballymore’s new Providence Wharf site.…

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News

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 …

Biscop House

Scourge of RTMs, Israel Moskovitz sits as a director … of a residents’ management company in Sunderland

Rendall and Rittner … no insurance commissions, but it owns an offshore ‘captive’ insurance company making a 40% profit on leaseholders’ premiums

LKP to monitor bank exposure as cladding flats sell to cash buyers in auctions

Fire Safety Bill clears Parliament. So, what’s next?

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

Chris Pincher

Fire Safety Bill ricochets around Parliament as 31 Conservative MPs again vote against the government

Lord Greenhalgh

Lords push government’s Fire Safety Bill to the edge as parliamentary session nears end …

Should the buyer beware? Leaseholders and fire safety remediation costs

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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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Liam Spender

Government’s use of extra-statutory powers has made the cladding crisis far worse than in Australia (or possibly Scotland), writes LKP trustee

New Capital Quay

New Capital Quay Litigation continues, with concern that repairs may still not meet Building Regulations

Now Israel Moskovitz wins right to charge £30 for his ground rent demands …

BovisHomesGateway

Bovis Homes leaseholder in Bristol cannot sell as ground rents reviewed every five years

Ted Baillieu, ex-pm of Victoria, tells London cladding leaseholders that Australians identified flats most at risk and sorted them out first (but there were loans to flat owners)

shared owners

Now shared owners are hit with lease extension costs on top of fire safety costs

Chris Pincher

Bottomley leads Tory rebellion of 32 MPs, but government defeats amendment to Fire Safety Bill

Bellway

Consumers fightened to speak out over housebuilders defects, says BBC

CMA

CMA kicks housebuilders: Countryside Properties and Taylor Wimpey ‘unfair contract terms’ over rip-off ground rents; Persimmon and Barratt ‘possible mis-selling’ of homes

Lord Greenhalgh

Lords rebellion sees government Fire Safety Bill thrown into disarray

Bishop of St Albans

APPG leasehold chairs call on Lords to support McPartland-Smith amendment tomorrow

Peter Cobrin

Section 24 court appointed manager orders can be the last resort for leaseholders, but beware messing them up

Ballymore

Crisis in UK flats at last prompts Ballymore leaseholders to rebel and speak publicly about rocketing service charges to the FT

Chris Pincher

Minister hears how cladding ‘interim measures’ are ruining a generation of homebuyers

Liam Spender

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

Florence Eshalomi

Select Committee none the wiser over cladding forced loan schemes

Martin Boyd

Martin Boyd returns to LKP

Dudley Joiner

Dudley Joiner’s Team Property Management goes down the plughole owing £635,958

Rosleand Parc Retirement Village

Pensioner loses £130,000 to escape Roseland Parc Retirement Village. But it is worth it, she says …

NHBC

NHBC controls up to 90% of new build warranties: law professors raise concerns …

Canary Gateway

Barrister Justin Bates torpedoes another RTM for Moskovitz / Gurvits: leaseholders face £100,000 bills

Cestrian Court

Pensioners in retirement housing face £150,000 fire safety bill, but McCarthy and Stone isn’t reponsible (nor is FirstPort, and NHBC hasn’t responded)

Housing crisis. Possible banking crisis. And lease forfeitures ‘very, very soon’, Communities Select Committee is warned

Richard Murphy

Should I extend my lease now or wait for government reforms?

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Astor's empire

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 …)

Long Harbour hits reverse on forfeiture to £800,000 flat over £400 ground rent … and JB Leitch halves its legal bill

Barking fire site is owned by anonymous investors in Adriatic Land

Tory MP Stephen McPartland shames Long Harbour / Adriatic Land into dropping doubling ground rent leases

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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