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

Thea Gilmore leaseholders

LKP: Start as we mean to go on …

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

E and J Captial Partners

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

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

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

Roy Wilshire

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

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

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

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

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Canary Gateway

Barrister Justin Bates torpedoes another RTM for Moskovitz / Gurvits: leaseholders face £100,000 bills

Canary Gateway leaseholders have just lost £100,000 on a failed RTM, have aggressive 15-year doubling ground rents and, like every…

Cestrian Court

Pensioners in retirement housing face £150,000 fire safety bill, but McCarthy and Stone isn’t reponsible (nor is FirstPort, and NHBC hasn’t responded)

And flats at Cestrian Court, built in 2008, have dismal resale values of £40,000 in 2020 (sold new by McCarthy…

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News

Housing crisis. Possible banking crisis. And lease forfeitures ‘very, very soon’, Communities Select Committee is warned

Richard Murphy

Should I extend my lease now or wait for government reforms?

Lord Greenhalgh

Bankruptcies for leaseholders and billions entrusted to freeholders and their managers, APPG told

As 17% of cladding leaseholders consider bankruptcy, LKP funding proposal offers alternative to successive crises facing flat-owners

Why the law won’t help cladding leaseholders

LKP response to Robert Jenrick £3.5bn ‘exceptional intervention’ to cladding high-rises today

Question Time: Zoom meeting with LKP cladding funding proposal team, Tuesday 5pm February 9 2021

Dean Buckner

Must see: cladding video. AND Barratt backs an industry-wide levy

Hayley Tillotson

Feeble government ministers bankrupted Hayley Tillotson, and will do the same to thousands more …

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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

Labour puts the boot into forced loans to cladding leaseholders

Non-ACM Building Safety Fund is four times over-subscribed and is doling out £2m per block

LKP cladding scandal survey

LKP backs Sadiq Khan demand that ALL shared ownership leases to be 999 years

Michael Wade

Why is Michael Wade rushing forced loans on leaseholders before Grenfell Inquiry considers government and housebuilders’ failings?

Martin Boyd

LKP trustees tell MHCLG that Martin Boyd can return to LKP any time

Sunday Times: officials trying to gag leaseholders. Daily Mail: Wade funding proposal will crash property market

RICS and lenders ease EWS1 for under-18m blocks which has blighted the re-sale market

Law Commission praises LKP to Sir Peter Bottomley over ‘crucial’ role in obtaining leasehold reforms

Law Commission leasehold reform

Government announces ban on new ground rents now, THEN reform leasehold (which is what LKP recommended)

fire safety in flats

Freeholders must pay for cladding – or lose freeholds, say LKP patron MPs

LKP cladding levy

Here is how to avoid dumping the cladding scandal bill on leaseholders or taxpayers

Wicker Riverside

Government steps back from dumping all cladding costs on leaseholders

APPG on leasehold reform

Full APPG, December 10: Can be seen here

Do NOT buy a new property with ground rents

Dean Buckner

LKP calls for levy on developers and freeholders over cladding

Cracks in the leasehold racket as Barratt London drops ground rents

Bob Bessell

Bob Bessell steps in as LKP’s new interim chair

Hackney EWS1 charge

Hackney charges leaseholders £750 for EWS1

cladding Tory donors

Only seven cladding sites in Tory constituencies … as Build! Build! Build! developers pour in party donations

Martin Boyd

Martin Boyd resigns from LKP

Social Housing Annual Conference

You are better than commercial developers and freeholders so be kind over the cladding catastrophe, LKP urges housing association conference

Clive Betts MPs

MPs attack government for dumping historic building failures onto leaseholders

Long Harbour Board

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

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

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Astor's empire

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

Are hedge funds behind Long Harbour, asks Tory MP

More and more Astor’s empire

Local authority leasehold

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

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 …

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