Secretariat of the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold reform

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Roy Wilshire

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

E and J Captial Partners

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

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

David Marsden Canary Riverside

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

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

forfeiture by neighbour

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

Will Astor

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

Thea Gilmore leaseholders

LKP: Start as we mean to go on …

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

Martin Paine 'crook' MPs told

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

Onslow Square forfeiture

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

Claude Wehrle, Claude Schmidt Gwenaëlle Derrendinger)

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

Spire View commonhold

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

Persimmon sleaze

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

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Sir David Amess, RIP. 1952-2021

Sir David Amess, who was killed today at his constituency surgery, was the chair of the APPG on fire safety…

Caroline Perry

Mother and 12-year-old son living on friend’s sofa after eviction for £4,000 unpaid service charges at grade 2 listed flat

Ian Byrne MP wades in urging RMC directors to reconsider possession order A mother and her 12-year-old son have been…

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News

Freemont

FirstPort buys up Freemont: the property management firm set up by its ousted Politburo

Roger Southam fired

FoPRA dumps Roger Southam as ‘esteemed honorary consultant’. Calls for chair Bob Smytherman to stand down

Roger Southam

LKP quits FoPRA as it appoints Roger Southam an ‘esteemed honorary consultant’ – after re-surfacing from the Cayman Islands

Countryside Properties plc

CMA forces Countryside Properties plc to strike out doubling ground rents: it was selling them as late as May 2017!

Dame Judith Hackitt

Dame Judith Hackitt says cladding leaseholders risk ruin with rip-off charges. She wants to help. But is still at sea over leasehold law …

BBC2 Newsnight

BBC2 Newsnight special on corrosive leasehold and the building safety crisis … with no minister present at all

RichardDavidoff

Richard Davidoff, of ABC Estates, ‘breached his fiduciary duties’ after disastrous performance as a court-appointed manager, rules property tribunal

FirstPort charges leaseholders 33% commission on temporary staff recruitment

RICS dreams up another feeble ‘code of practice’, as Lord Best’s statutory regulator of property managers falls victim to Covid

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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

St David's Square

Fees come first for FirstPort: leaseholders billed at least £39,000 for applications to the Building Safety Fund … And so it begins

EWS1 debacle

EWS1 on under 18m high buildings … is still an utter mess

Building Safety Bill

Curiouser and curiouser: the Building Safety Bill has Second Reading in the Commons

Blatant pro-landlord loophole left in the Ground Rent Bill. Is this the way leasehold ‘reforms’ will go?

Building Safety Bill

Building Safety Bill: Made by officials. By themselves. Talking to themselves. Will the cogs turn?

Building Safety Bill

Building Safety Bill is a device for which the batteries aren’t included. It could be improved, if only officials would listen …

Justin Madders MP

Justin Madders MP asks why Redrow is selling freeholds at Ledsham Garden Village for £4,000 when they were £6,500. And what about those who paid too much?

Canonbury Management

LKP rejects threat of defamation proceedings from Canonbury Management

Division as London Assembly opposition urges Sadiq Khan to be tougher on housebuilders over cladding

Countryside Properties plc

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

build safety summit

And so the building safety crisis lurches towards mass forfeitures …

forfeiture

LKP reverses forfeiture of suicide’s flat securing family £40,000

CMA ground rents

CMA forces Aviva to re-set rip-off doubling ground rents to what they were when homes were first bought …

Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill

Make sure ground rents are dead and buried by improving the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill

Tower Hamlets leaseholders find their voice, host free building safety conference with LKP on June 15

Bottomley calls on Boris Johnson to hold fire safety funding summit

SoniaMcCollOBEtheft

Inside job goons found guilty of stealing park home of Sonia McColl OBE

Saturday 5 June: Cladding leaseholders to demonstrate outside sales suites of house builders

Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill

Analysis of where next with the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill

offshore freeholders

Freeholders and housebuilders have plucked the leasehold golden goose, and now the path is clear for commonhold

Lord Blencathra

House of Lords turns into the House of Serfs to attack the iniquity of leasehold ground rents

The Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill: opportunities and challenges

Commonhold Council

Government announces Commonhold Council to prevent ‘hidden costs’ and ‘the egregious practices currently seen in some leaseholds’

Sonia McColl OBE

Trial for two accused of stealing the home of park homes campaigner Sonia McColl OBE

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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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