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

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

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?

Persimmon sleaze

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

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

Claude Wehrle, Claude Schmidt Gwenaëlle Derrendinger)

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

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

Martin Paine 'crook' MPs told

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

Thea Gilmore leaseholders

LKP: Start as we mean to go on …

Spire View commonhold

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

Onslow Square forfeiture

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

Will Astor

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

E and J Captial Partners

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

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Professor Susan Bright

Might consumer protection law be a silver bullet against freeholders’ escalating ground rents? (And the threat to reform?)

Professor Susan Bright, of Oxford University, seen here in February 2019, has addressed the All-Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and…

Path is set to kill off leasehold and replace it with commonhold

It really looks like it is going to happen. The death knell of leasehold has been sounded and government is…

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LKP’s guide for leaseholders to respond to government’s proposed permitted insurance fees: the good and not so good

Right to manage reforms announced … days after Chelsea Bridge Wharf wins RTM

Leaseholders win control of 1,132-flat Chelsea Bridge Wharf … which means they also manage the HQ of housebuilder the Berkeley Group

FirstPort suspended from its own trade body the Property Institute

Freeholders win right for a judicial review to challenge 2024 Act

Homes England issued £236k secret fine to shared ownership retirement developer Platinum Skies

NLC recommissions leaseholders’ mental health survey

Government’s leasehold reform announcement was low key, but this is why we think it will deliver

Why it is going to be so important to shout in 2025 – and loudly – when government sets the leasehold Deferment Rate

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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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Eagerstates: BBC finds £1.2m over-charging in 140 tribunal cases over five years

24 Labour MPs invite FirstPort to Westminster to explain ‘consistent complaints’

After begging to keep ground rents, why is McCarthy and Stone saying it now supports commonhold?

Leaseholders in Ilfracombe can claim legal costs against wideboy freeholders over £2.6m wrongly demanded service charges, says Court of Appeal

Spender wards off attempt to frustrate his appeal over £590,000 ‘contract for eternity’ intercom systems

Cladding disaster will cost £16.6 billion, says National Audit Office. Million people stuck in dangerous homes. 2035 is end date for the debacle. Oh, and £500,000 has been stolen (so far)…

Is the betrayal narrative over leasehold reform being over-played?

Freeholders on course for judicial review showdown against leasehold reforms in January

Southwark council’s leaseholder conference is an invaluable resource for all

Nick Hargrave

Davidoff libel action against ex-Number 10 policy advisor collapses

MPs set up new parliamentary group to reform leasehold

Fleecehold: The play. Back on stage in Camden August 22-24

Freeholders face class action over insurance commissions

Government to go to war on ‘feudal’ leasehold … But no commitment to zero ground rents

Peter Bottomley: Many thanks

Leaseholders’ victory over ‘contracts for eternity’ is overturned by Upper Tribunal

Leasehold reform: So, was it worth it?

Damning ruling on E&J’s insurance over-charging

Why is the church blind to the injustices of leasehold?

Government seeks £20.5 million off John Christodoulou for Canary Riverside building safety works, reports FT

Sterling Estates Management fails to derail second effort at right to manage

Leasehold Bill: What a missed opportunity, with just about every MP wanting to go further …

Leaseholders are not the customer. They are the product, LKP tells Lords committee

More than six years after Grenfell and 15 months after the Building Safety Act, how does Labour Wales compare with Tory Westminster over fixing badly built blocks of flats?

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Astor's empire

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

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

More and more Astor’s empire

Local authority leasehold

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

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

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