Secretariat of the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold reform

Can the Leasehold Advisory Service monopoly survive devastating questioning by Select Committee?

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

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

McCarthy and Stone: Ground rents are not the future of retirement housing

Onslow Square forfeiture

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

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Katie Kendrick gets Rightmove to include full leasehold listings, while LEASE does nothing (as usual)

Rightmove is to include full information about leasehold properties offered for sale on the on-line estate agency portal after pressure…

Ritu Saha UKCAG

BBC R4 MoneyBox told Grenfell cladding cash difficult to get and does not cover waking watch

Ritu Saha, speaking at the All Party Parliamentary Group meeting on January 9 The shortcomings of the Grenfell cladding fund…

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Cladding scandal

Alison Thewliss MP

Special thanks to SNP Alison Thewliss MP for joining APPG to end leasehold unfairness (as Scottish system is so much better)

Sir Peter Bottomley

MPs demand action on cladding scandal, but the question remains: what?

Professor Susan Bright

‘Propriety’: A genteel word to transform our rapacious residential property market

Dr Jonathan Evans

Government’s approach to cladding crisis has been to duck the blame, says engineer who was shown the door by officials

Cladding site? Come to parliamentary meeting on January 9 … and get your MP to attend as well

Cladding Work

New fire safety certificate to unlock UK high-rise flat market after Advice Notice 14 resulted in valuations of zero, FT reports

Bellway to pay to remove wood from Barking Riverside fire site

Sector announces new building safety test for leasehold blocks to ‘keep the high-rise property market flowing’

New Lawrence House

Leaseholders and freeholder of evacuated Manchester block win £10.8m insurer payout for ‘serious defects’

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Law Commission

Professor Nicholas Hopkins

If you want to reform enfranchisement push government hard, is message of Law Commission

APPG recognises efforts of Law Commission to improve enfranchisement

leasehold marriage value

Marriage value a bogus profit in the £2.5bn enfranchisement racket, LKP trustee Dean Buckner tells BBC

What if Berkeley had built Charter Quay as commonhold? Site visit by officials and Law Commission

Housebuilders WILL benefit from commonhold, Hopton Build developer tells Law Commission

Leaseholders and the sector react to Law Commission reforms to commonhold and right to manage

Lawyers to Communities Select Committee: Stop ‘sticking plaster reforms’. End ‘draconian’ forfeiture. £10 ground rents a ‘mistake’. Make legal costs fair to leaseholders. Commonhold failed because developers make money out of leasehold …

Scilly Isles leaseholders rebel against Prince Charles’s ‘feudal’ Duchy of Cornwall, in Law Commission evidence

‘The time is right for commonhold,’ announces Law Commission. (Pity the government doesn’t agree …)

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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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Astor's empire

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

shared ownership

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

Questions for MPs to ask Taylor Wimpey and Long Harbour today …

Long Harbour lobby MP Kate Osamor bars leasehold activist from Twitter feed

Government thinking freeholders are paternalistic long-term custodians of a building is where it has gone wrong over Grenfell cladding

More and more Astor empire

News Archive

cladding meeting CIty Hall

Cladding scandal meeting, London City Hall, February 6

Conveyancing Association’s ‘Dirty Dozen’ questions buyers of leasehold need to ask

Moneywise does a thorough job reporting leasehold

Peter Ellis Jones

Data blogger shows estate agents provide little to no useful information on leasehold properties

Campaigner Katie Kendrick gets Rightmove to include lease details on sales listings

Housing association Network Homes seeks to dump some of its £200m cladding costs on leaseholders

EDM history 2005

Early Day Motion supported by Corbyn, McDonnell, Bottomley etc … in 2005

ODI Video Bob Cratchit

Housing data needs to help Bob Cratchit, not Ebenezer Scrooge

Peter Bottomley Sky Father of House

Our Father, who art in … Parliament

Is government really back-tracking on leasehold reform evidenced in Queen’s speech? LKP’s verdict is open …

Does Dominic Cumming’s gung-ho planning idea put a hole in Law Commission’s enfranchisement reforms by boosting freehold values?

Wellcome Trust ‘wrong’ over exploiting the lease extension racket in its property portfolio, Bottomley tells The Times

Katie Kendrick Sky News Dec 19

LKP trustees Katie Kendrick and Louie Burns tell Sky News and BBC R4 MoneyBox of ‘David and Goliath’ fight for freeholds

Leaseholder of £3m pad in central London demands £100 a day off Gerald Ronson for no internet  

Cladding Panel

Cladding site? Come to parliamentary meeting on January 9 … and get your MP to attend as well

LKP trustee Professor James Driscoll dies

Astor Times Front page

Families challenge Long Harbour for freeholds to Bellway leasehold houses, The Times reports

Birmingham Islington Gates Big

Cladding victims now being hit by insurance hikes, reports BBC R4 You and Yours

Grenfell Badge

Grenfell United link up with leaseholder groups to protest cladding crisis and warn next government of Grenfell 2

Martin Lewis

Martin Lewis, the Money Saving Expert, challenges party leaders over leasehold scandal

Rothesay Life

Would you want your former Prudential pension invested in Tchenguiz ground rents by Rothesay Life? FT reports concerns

Cladding Work

Why AN14 is making your cladding flat impossible to sell

supreme court

Supreme Court blocks enfranchisement ploy that seems to be pure enrichment

Bluebell Meadow

‘You weren’t mis-sold your leasehold house and I am keeping my £45m bonus’, is the message of Persimmon CEO to Bluebell Meadow

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