Secretariat of the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold reform

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E and J Captial Partners

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

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

Roy Wilshire

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

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

Thea Gilmore leaseholders

LKP: Start as we mean to go on …

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

Persimmon sleaze

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

Spire View commonhold

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

Will Astor

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

Martin Paine 'crook' MPs told

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

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

forfeiture by neighbour

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

Latest

England’s cladding leaseholders could end up with equity stripped out of their homes, warns Welsh minister

Long-serving Welsh Conservative politician David Melding, who secured the Senedd debate on the need for a fire safety fund in…

Public Accounts Committee issues damning verdict on MHCLG’s handling of the cladding crisis

A billion to be doled out by first-come, first-served applications irrespective of risk in a building or its ability to…

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Robert Jenrick cladding

LKP survey of EWS1 shows that 90% of cladding sites DO need remediation

Housing associations furious at government’s 10-year repair-free offer to new shared owners

Lord Greenhalgh

Lord Greenhalgh becomes the housing minister responsible for leasehold

‘Everybody must call on government, whoever you vote for’ to resolve cladding crisis, says Starmer

Lords from all parties trash government’s multi-billion pound give-away to freehold owners

Building Safety Bill

URGENT: Respond to Building Safety Bill call for evidence

Sir Bob Neill

Surveyors discouraged by insurers from carrying out EWS1, says Sir Bob Neill MP

Jenrick’s £12bn home-building media fanfare falls flat as LBC radio returns to the cladding scandal

Artisan H2 Limited

Freeholder Artisan H2 Limited succeeds in insuring cladding site Albion Works … but not for fire

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National Leasehold Campaign

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Clairon Property Ombudsman

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

RICS carve-up

LKP, NLC and FPRA decline to participate in trade body insiders’ code of conduct

42 MPs back Starmer’s attempt to block rooftop planning give-away to freeholders 

CMA ground rent

Settle up with doubling ground rent victims or see you in court next year, CMA tells house builders

Susan Bright Grenfell

Building Safety Bill means … leaseholders are going to have to pay a lot of money to clear up the mess of other people

Land Registry publishes new data on leasehold and fleecehold deals to help buyers and nudge Rightmove

Lords warn government of “tidal wave of protest” at new right for freeholders to add extra floors without permission

Keep freeholders

Report from Tchenguiz Family Trust, Long Harbour and Wallace Estates seeks to side-line leasehold reforms by fear-mongering over fire safety

Tchenguiz Long Harbour Padulli

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

Louie Burns’ ‘passion for justice’ praised in Commons by Justin Madders MP

After 60 consultations, Bottomley told ‘when parliamentary time allows’ for reforms promised three years ago

Is ‘Chapman’ the new ‘Daejan’?

Andover asphalt major works war sees landlord forced to pay for leaseholders’ expert

Law Commission reports offer blueprint to demolish monetising landlordism in residential leasehold

Pensioners in former pit village fight ground rents rising from £10 a year to £1,100pa (after a demand for £2,450pa was rejected)

West India Quay illegal raves

Has The Times report ended bnb raves at West India Quay – where landlord John Christodoulou and manager Rendall and Rittner failed?

Fewer leaseholders’ rights would help make buildings safe, L&Q tells MPs

To build 8,120 new flats: Government gifts freeholders £41bn, devalues flats by £200m … and torpedoes leasehold reform

Jeremy Pocklington cladding scandal

MHCLG officials tell MPs: Don’t know costs of waking watch. No idea that at least three cladding sites are uninsured. We are not to blame but ‘30 years of developer failures’

Citiscape £16m cladding bill

Barratt’s £15.8m bill at Citiscape … and £70m bill for all cladding sites

Leaseholders excluded from code of practice

Insiders carve up code of practice for property managers – having been silent on systemic abuses for years!

Astor Tchenguiz planning windfall

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

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

Jenrick two storey giveaway

Has Jenrick just handed £1bn each to Astor, Tchenguiz and Wallace Estates with two-storey planning gift?

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Astor's empire

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

Are hedge funds behind Long Harbour, asks Tory MP

Brokenshire tells freeholders to pay up to remove Grenfell cladding. But how can that work?

Anonymous freeholders are the reliable long-term custodians of blocks of flats, Select Committee is told

More and more Astor’s empire

Local authority leasehold

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

Michelle Baharier Philip Rainey QC

Southwark litigant-in-person leaseholder faces wipe-out after £24,000 tribunal victory. Council now deploys ‘shock and awe’ QC …

Oxford Council leaseholders have repair bills slashed from £50,000 to under £4,000

Circle Housing humiliated over £22,000 major works bills at Merton Priory knocked back to £3,500

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