Secretariat of the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold reform

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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

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

Will Astor

‘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

Thea Gilmore leaseholders

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

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

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

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

Onslow Square forfeiture

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

forfeiture by neighbour

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

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Inspired Sutton

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

Lee Rowley

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

Barry Gardner

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

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

Deadline today for freeholders to declare offshore beneficial ownership

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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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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

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

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

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

Spare a thought for the forgotten Welsh building safety cladding victims

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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 …’

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

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

Richard Davidoff

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

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

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

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Astor's empire

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

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 …

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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