Secretariat of the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold reform

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Spire View commonhold

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

Claude Wehrle, Claude Schmidt Gwenaëlle Derrendinger)

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

David Marsden Canary Riverside

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

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

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

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

Will Astor

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

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

Martin Paine 'crook' MPs told

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

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

Persimmon sleaze

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

E and J Captial 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

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Electricity changes – going down a little – at last. 

There’s a small bit of good news for leaseholders: The rate of VAT on electricity is going down from 5%…

fire safety in flats

Freeholds have plummeted in value and the risk-premium of owning them has risen sharply. Has government noticed?

Government Actuary’s Department freehold risk-premium needs a radical update Property tribunal accepted data of 706 Allsop residential auction sales between…

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Government’s proposed £250 ground rent cap has already busted the freehold market – and should make lease extensions cheaper right now

Freeholder Israel Moskovitz’s legal ‘blunderbuss’ backfires over Cresta Court RTM in Supreme Court

Coppen Estates cops it for over-padding insurance admin costs. Other Coppen leaseholders should do the same, say litigants

Leaseholders MUST respond to the consultation to stop freeholders mining gold from their homes through the enfranchisement scam

Leasehold valuation rates: the government consultation where numbers matter more than slogans

Quid pro quo leases: The freeholders’ blade to neuter ground rent reform

‘What leaseholders really think’, by a freeholder lobbying group … Why they control your money ISN’T one of the questions asked

Land Registry’s rotten foundations are making leasehold reform far harder

Ministers want leaseholders to gain control. So why has collective enfranchisement collapsed?

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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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News Archive

Home Buying Packs must reveal who controls your building

Right to manage or right to endless misery in the courts?

How freeholders are manipulating government data to block reforms

14 years of campaigning: Commonhold finally in a King’s Speech

Court of Appeal gives freeholders the go-ahead for round two of judicial review

Leasehold to be dismantled and leaseholders emancipated by end of this Parliament, says Matthew Pennycook

Six arguments of freeholders in search of an economic justification (and failing to find one)

Pennycook, give us equal arms to fight freeholder bullying in the courts

Pennycook promises to end leasehold this Parliament

Freeholders try to woo MPs with a Charmaine offensive, but they are not having it

MPs furious that freeholders won’t turn up to defend their ‘professional landlordism’, but send a paid lobbyist instead

Retirees say charges are rising while services decline at high-end Audley sites

Sort out enfranchisement, or existing leaseholders will be left behind in the commonhold future

Death knell for leasehold

Dire state of apartment re-sales in London revealed in Hamptons report

Ex-minister Justin Madders becomes co-chair of APPG. Full list below:

Judges in St David’s Square case deliver a £31,000 unhappy New Year to ARC Time Freehold Fund, FirstPort and debt collectors JB Leitch

In Pennycook government has a good housing minister: let him finish the job by finishing off leasehold

Court of Appeal victory over St David’s Square £500k ‘contract for eternity’ door entry system

Removing freeholders’ development value in enfranchisement – as the Law Commission recommended – is vital to reform and conversion to commonhold

Across from Pennycook’s office: Bad defeat for leaseholders as Court of Appeal says ‘reasonableness’ of costs means they followed a reasonable process. Not that they might be madly inflated

Losing their £5m judicial review against the leasehold reforms threatens freeholders’ long era of primacy. So, what’s next?

Speak out in this government consultation by 26 September – because freeholders and their army of helpers will certainly do so

Land Registry blunder means Cresta Court RTM fails at Court of Appeal as notification was not served on one leaseholder – who actually supported right to manage

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Astor's empire

Freeholders on course for judicial review showdown against leasehold reforms in January

Abacus Land sees its ground rents more than double to £711, thanks to RPI

Deadline today for freeholders to declare offshore beneficial ownership

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

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 … ?

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

More and more Astor’s empire

Local authority leasehold

Southwark council’s leaseholder conference is an invaluable resource for all

Southwark council meets its leaseholders. Lambeth pays them off (and deploys NDAs)

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?

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

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