Secretariat of the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold reform

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David Marsden Canary Riverside

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

Spire View commonhold

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

Will Astor

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

Onslow Square forfeiture

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

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

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

Thea Gilmore leaseholders

LKP: Start as we mean to go on …

forfeiture by neighbour

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

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

Persimmon sleaze

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

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

Latest

Pensioners in former pit village fight ground rents rising from £10 a year to £1,100pa (after a demand for £2,450pa was rejected)

By Harry Scoffin Four leasehold house owners in the former pit village of Thurcroft, near Rotherham, south Yorkshire, are bracing…

West India Quay illegal raves

Has The Times report ended Airbnb raves at West India Quay – where landlord John Christodoulou and manager Rendall and Rittner failed?

The Times’s report of unlawful Airbnb raves at the prime London Docklands site West India Quay may have stopped flats…

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News

Fewer leaseholders’ rights would help make buildings safe, L&Q tells MPs

To build 8,120 new flats: Government gifts freeholders £41bn, devalues flats by £200m … and torpedoes leasehold reform

Jeremy Pocklington cladding scandal

MHCLG officials tell MPs: Don’t know costs of waking watch. No idea that at least three cladding sites are uninsured. We are not to blame but ‘30 years of developer failures’

Citiscape £16m cladding bill

Barratt’s £15.8m bill at Citiscape … and £70m bill for all cladding sites

Leaseholders excluded from code of practice

Insiders carve up code of practice for property managers – having been silent on systemic abuses for years!

Astor Tchenguiz planning windfall

Two-storey planning windfall means billions for freeholders, reports The Times

Barking Riverside fire survivors round on secretive freeholder Adriatic Land, reports BBC R4

Jenrick two storey giveaway

Has Jenrick just handed £1bn each to Astor, Tchenguiz and Wallace Estates with two-storey planning gift?

UN Human Rights cladding

United Nations criticises UK government’s approach to the cladding crisis

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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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FirstPort Mainstay merge

FirstPort and Mainstay unite to create ‘monster’ management company controlling 275,000 flats

Leasehold brothel forfeiture

Solicitor leaseholder may lose Chelsea flat used as brothel

Louie Burns dies

Louie Burns, LKP trustee, dies

Dr Jonathan Evans

Apsana Begum takes to Zoom to help trapped Poplar and Limehouse cladding victims

EWS survey

Cladding leaseholders: Please complete survey on EWS for MPs

Steve Morgan EWS1

Justin Madders urges Redrow founder Steve Morgan to speed along EWS1 form so leaseholder can sell flat

Rob Perrins Grenfell cladding

At last, some sense over the cladding crisis from … Rob Perrins, of the Berkeley Group

Pincher defends absent Jenrick in bad tempered Commons clash over Richard Desmond £1bn planning scandal

Communities Select Committee

Communities Select Committee: cladding blocks still doing nothing by December should have their freehold removed

UCAG

23% of cladding leaseholders have considered suicide or self-harm, says compelling UKCAG report

Radius scandal Taylor Wimpey

Radius leaseholders rumble Taylor Wimpey for trying to flog off freehold to property punters …

‘Years’ to sign off Peabody flats as safe, BBC is told. That means no one is able to sell up and leave …

FirstPort spy on Facebook

FirstPort ‘spy’ leaves company after infiltrating leaseholders’ group on Facebook

An open letter to Robert Jenrick: the costs of delayed leasehold reform

Skyline Central HPL cladding

Long Harbour’s Adriatic Land backs leaseholders at Skyline Central 1 to get public money for HPL removal

Top civil servant warns Robert Jenrick over £1bn cladding bailout … promises post-Grenfell blame game won’t happen again

Robert Jenrick Richard Desmond

Has Jenrick been saved by the Cummings furore for rushing through approval of 1,500 home Docklands scheme that would have handed £40m to former publisher Richard Desmond?

Ground Rents Income Fund plc

Telegraph says buy Ground Rents Income Fund plc, which has fallen 31.6% and lost court action over Beetham Tower

Brindley House cladding leaseholders face eviction, reports BBC R4 You and Yours

Jenrick tells Bottomley: Bill to set new ground rents at peppercorn coming ‘shortly’

Hugh Mcgreever RMG

RMG’s unexplained blunder increased pensioners’ ground rents by 59%, saying it was ‘in line with RPI’

Sir Bob Neill Grenfeel cladding

Sir Bob Neill becomes cladding chair at APPG

Lord Greenhalgh

Greenhalgh to Communities Select Committee: 1,700 non-ACM cladding blocks at high risk and some waking watch costs are ‘usurious’

Academic bars Oxford City Council from entering his flat to finish major works

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Astor's empire

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

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 …

More and more Astor’s empire

Local authority leasehold

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 …

Oxford Council leaseholders have repair bills slashed from £50,000 to under £4,000

Circle Housing humiliated over £22,000 major works bills at Merton Priory knocked back to £3,500

BBC R4 You and Yours features £36,000 car crash leasehold defiance over Southwark major works scheme

Oxford leaseholders win first round against £60,000 major works bills

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