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

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

Will Astor

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

Roy Wilshire

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

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

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

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

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

forfeiture by neighbour

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

E and J Captial Partners

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

Persimmon sleaze

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

David Marsden Canary Riverside

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

Thea Gilmore leaseholders

LKP: Start as we mean to go on …

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Marriage value? Let’s have an acrimonious divorce!

Dirofilaria immitis: the heartworm parasite that mosquitoes can pass to dogs. It lives in the heart and lungs and, without…

Work with this leasehold reform Bill, or wait for Utopia? Minimum: another 3 more years

Are well heeled leaseholders in Docklands – who won’t face a shot fired in anger at the property tribunal -…

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News

New chair of LEASE tells MPs: time for the leasehold system to go gentle into that good night

Leasehold reforms: respond to government consultation over ground rents before 21 December (because those legging you over will certainly be doing so)

Minister Rachel Maclean claims leasehold reform will be ‘a generational transformation’. Hugely welcome changes, but it’s scaled back as the government runs on borrowed time

MPs aghast at Liam Spender’s account of being a leaseholder litigant. It is like ‘being a laboratory animal in a maze controlled by freehold-owning landlords and their enablers’

First step for major leasehold reforms: Martin Boyd appointed chair of Leasehold Advisory Service

Southwark council meets its leaseholders. Lambeth pays them off (and deploys NDAs)

Platinum Skies: £63,000 loss on £130,000 shared ownership retirement flat after new owner died 25 days after moving in

Shared ownership: Immensely complex; nothing shared when it comes to costs; clever ‘investors’ scent a revenue source to replace ground rents

Park home owners demo against 10% sales commissions

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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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Churchill Retirement

Three quarters of Churchill Retirement flats have lost money when resold, says The Times

Marriage Value: How your freeholder hitches a ride on the uplift of value on your flat

Odevo rivals FirstPort as largest managing agent after hoovering up rivals

We all agree, yet we are still waiting for the leasehold reforms promised years ago, says Katie Kendrick

APPG on shared ownership: L&Q wrong to hard sell ‘Black Friday’ knock-off flats to buyers. Urgent need for shared ownership re-sale data to be on Land Registry

Jack Spearman

We support leasehold reform but not abolishing it and leaseholders are served by ground rents, says the Residential Freehold Association

Rachel Maclean MP

Housing Minister Rachel Maclean pledges to reform LEASE, calls out Churchill Retirement Living, pledges to end the ‘assured tenancy trap’ and reiterates commitments to reform leasehold

War of attrition: FirstPort appeals St David’s Square leaseholder victory (after telling leaseholders everyone would be sharing in the win)

FirstPort / E&J Estates face insurance challenge over ramping up rebuild costs

Abacus Land sees its ground rents more than double to £711, thanks to RPI

Sell-out run for ‘Fleecehold’, the play telling the story of the founders of the National Leasehold Campaign

Call for evidence on shared ownership, from the robust Communities Select Committee

Your chance to say what you think about retirement housing before September 18

Richard Davidoff

Libel lawyers for Richard Davidoff, of ABC Estates, fail to get Google to hand over online reviewers’ identities

What a surprise! Nigel Glen becomes the mouthpiece of freehold investors

Devastating criticism of FCA for telling MPs it only knew of leasehold insurance fiddling ‘just prior’ to Michael Gove demanding a probe last year!

We need retirement ground rent gaming like a hole in the head, say retirement community operators

Court of Appeal backs rights of 200,000 shared ownership leaseholders after right to manage duel with Israel Moskovitz

What is the point of this government, asks Lisa Nandy as it wriggles over promised leasehold reforms

Black Friday for FirstPort: ALL leaseholders at St David’s Square to share £479,000 service charge triumph. And £55,000 in energy subsidies to be paid up

Net Zero is going to be difficult throughout the world … but with leasehold tenure, next to impossible

We just made it up: landlord pays back £120,000 for intercom costs at St David’s Square that it cannot account for (and is leased for eternity)

Investors see gold in retirement housing, but oldies have taken a look and remain wary … Brighter developers are pushing for change

Dudley Joiner

Dudley Joiner, boss of the Right To Manage Federation, banned from being a company director – for the second time

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Astor's empire

Deadline today for freeholders to declare offshore beneficial ownership

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

More and more Astor’s empire

Local authority leasehold

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

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

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

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