Secretariat of the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold reform

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Onslow Square forfeiture

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

forfeiture by neighbour

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

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

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

Will Astor

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

David Marsden Canary Riverside

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

Roy Wilshire

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

Thea Gilmore leaseholders

LKP: Start as we mean to go on …

Persimmon sleaze

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

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

E and J Captial Partners

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

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

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Long Harbour Board

Oh, dear! Long Harbour private equity speculators buy freehold where ground rent FALLS from £250 to £143

The private equity clientele who buy into the Long Harbour freehold fund appear to have bought a pup at a…

Two-storey planning give-away

Tory councillors and Labour MP back leaseholders in blocking ERE freeholds shoving up two more storeys under Jenrick’s planning give-away

Report in the Bristol News. Click image to view report Tory councillors have joined Labour MP Darren Jones in calling…

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Baroness Dianne Hayter

Baroness Dianne Hayter criticises LKP for not taking part in property managers’ new code of practice

Lord Greenhalgh cladding scandal

Greenhalgh to dump ‘affordable’ cladding bills on leaseholders, which they were promised AGAIN and AGAIN would not happen …

Hilary Benn leasehold

Government should have equity stake in cladding freeholds covered by the fund, Hilary Benn MP tells APPG

Florrie’s Law fails again as Haringey council dumps £100,000 bills on leaseholders in the midst of the Covid-19 disaster

ARMA freeholder lobbyist

ARMA becomes a lobbyist for freeholders

Self-interested freeholders and property managers chorus: ‘taxpayer must pay over cladding’ … which, as it happens, leaves their income streams untouched

‘Get out of your ivory tower’: Tory MP turns on Jenrick over ‘shocking betrayal’ of cladding leaseholders

Dame Judith Hackitt’s uninterest in leasehold tenure is like ‘wanting to build cars with no idea how they are driven’, says LKP

Andrew Craige Curtis

Freeholder Andrew Craige Curtis to use two-storey planning give-away at a north London cladding site while leaseholders ruined with remediation bills

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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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Siobhan McGrath property tribunal

Property tribunal judge chairs sector-driven code of practice review that is boycotted by leaseholders

Sir Peter Bottomley furious

MPs fail to stop Robert Jenrick’s multi-billion pound planning hand-out to offshore freeholders

Sector says ‘no, thanks’ to controversial Building Safety Bill

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

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

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

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

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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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