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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Bristol leaseholders fail to win freeholds to their homes as one was not a house, in Covid-19 online court case

As it happens, one of these terraced houses in Bristol was not a house, for the purposes of the 1967…

Please sort out ‘waking watch’ yourselves owing to coronavirus, says freeholder of Circle 109, Liverpool

As LKP went to press, it learnt that managing agent Centrick has quit and is being replaced by Kerrington Property.…

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Robert Jenrick cladding

Jenrick: ‘We owe it to Grenfell community to get building safety right’

Get commonhold done, London Assembly tells government

The show must go on with Grenfell ACM cladding removal, says government … as the fire test it didn’t want YOU to see reveals HPL panels were lethal all along

City Wharf Hoxton

A2 Dominion to dump 100% cladding costs on to 25% shared owners at City Wharf Hoxton

Coronavirus drags property tribunal into a new tech world with hearings via Skype

90-day forfeiture reprieve

90-day reprieve on forfeiture

Giles Peaker shared ownership

Shared ownership: a misnomer that can be worse than renting and worse than leasehold, says solicitor

Coronavirus lockdown should not stop work on cladding, government told

Coronavirus leaseholders self help

Be a good neighbour: Templates for leaseholder mutual help during self-isolation period

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Cladding scandal

Islington Gates £8m bills

Appeal to Robert Jenrick: Islington Gates faces evacuation if cladding bills not paid on April 1

Buildings ‘just below 18m’ included in cladding fund

Communties Select Committee cladding inquiry

March 23: Cladding showdown begins, with Communities Select Committee questioning Tchenguiz group … and LKP

LKP cladding scandal survey

Results of LKP survey of 148 cladding scandal sites … as Communities Select Committee launches its own

Robert Jenrick £1 billion cladding

Cladding leaseholders rejoice after Robert Jenrick secures £1bn in Budget … on top of £400m already pledged

Clive Betts MP leasehold mis-selling

CMA’s devastating report on leasehold mis-selling echoes the Communities Select Committee, says Clive Betts MP

LKP joins ARMA initiative to urge chancellor to fund re-cladding bills set to ruin 500,000 leaseholders

cladding scandal demo

Cladding scandal Westminster demo, February 25: three mayors, 27 MPs, 300 leaseholders, a swarm of media …

fatcat freeholders

Fatcat freeholders SHAMED by MHCLG for having no plan to remove Grenfell cladding from their buildings include Long Harbour and James Tuttiett

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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

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

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

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

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Rip-off retirement leasehold fees give Corrie’s Ken Barlow a feast of plot lines. Let’s hope he leads a right to manage rebellion …

The Times reports criticisms of Jenrick’s two-storey planning windfall to what he called ‘egregious’ freeholders

Consumers' Association self-puffing

Consumers’ Association boasts sorting ground rent scandal and prompting CMA mis-selling investigation

Shula Rich commonhold

Here’s commonhold, but it won’t be mandatory. Shula Rich recalls the compromises behind the 2002 Act

Helen Hayes leasehold

Southwark announces new bills … and no funds for leaseholder group

Nigel Glen commonhold

ARMA on commonhold: Falling leasehold values. Zombie apartment blocks. Plenty of scrapping. Lack of interest. But good business for professional managers …

CMA leasehold mis-selling

Some in leasehold sector declined to co-operate with mis-selling investigation, says CMA

Heather Wheeler leasehold

Blessed is the sinner that repenteth … former housing minister Heather Wheeler joins APPG to reform leasehold

Clive Betts MPs

Government told to curb excessive ground rents and ‘disassociate’ from freeholders’ ‘Pledge to Leaseholders’ by Communities Select Committee

Robert Jenrick windfall to freeholders

Robert Jenrick: Why give freeholders such a whopping planning windfall over two new storeys rule, like this site in Newark?

Bob Marley lover forfeiture

Bob Marley lover faces forfeiture of Chelsea flat

Huawei rebel MPs nearly defeat government over Bill promising faster broadband for leaseholders

Israel Moskovitz Bridge Court South

Israel Moskovitz demand for £22,170 admin charges reduced to £300 in ‘colossal waste of court’s time’

Influential Tory MP Neil O’Brien calls developers and managing agents ‘the timeshare salesmen and dodgy wheel-clampers of our generation’

Lords hear how LKP warned government over ground rents and leasehold houses … in 2015

MoneyBox leasehold

We are going to court if necessary to get ripped off leaseholders their money back, CMA tells BBCR4 MoneyBox

LKP vindicated by devastating CMA report into mis-selling of leasehold homes

‘Peppercorn’ ground rents on Help To Buy properties … from next year

shared ownership price falls

Telegraph reports plummeting value of shared ownership flats

worst building safety scandal in history

‘Worst building safety scandal in modern history’

EWS1 Inside Housing

Why hasn’t EWS1 restarted the market in flats caught in the cladding scandal?

cladding scandal vultures

‘Predatory investors’ prey on cladding sites that government advice made valueless

MPs turn the heat on government over cladding scandal … on the day before two housing ministers were given the chop

Welsh government grapples with ‘fleecehold’ woes, issues call for evidence closing April 3

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