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Leasehold reforms: respond to government consultation over ground rents before 17 January (because those legging you over will certainly be doing so)

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

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

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

Dismal picture of leasehold emerges from MPs’ debate. But no government commitment on reforms

MPs briefing: Stop trying to reform leasehold. Just bring it to an end, and join the rest of the world

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

When inflation linked ground rents are worse than ten-year doubling ones. That would be now …

Tory Treasurer Lord Leigh and Priti Patel’s family accused of gaming the opportunities of leasehold

Note to Mr Gove: FSA was warning of ‘reputational risk’ in not cracking down on secret leasehold insurance commissions 17 years ago!

MPs join leaseholders at protest to ensure no one is left facing building safety cash calls

Michael Gove: Is this the robust inquiry into leasehold insurance fiddles that you wanted from the FCA?

Insurance insiders call for an end to secretive leasehold insurance commissions following Canary Riverside ruling

John Christodoulou fails to dump £355,000 gym debt onto the Canary Riverside leaseholders. Insurance commissions to be disclosed. And judge criticises his ‘extremely unattractive’ approach to tribunal

Open letter to Taylor Wimpey: If you cared about sorting out your ground rent mess, you can pay back the money your own ex-customers have wasted over this scandal

Taylor Wimpey to pay fire safety works on sites built over past 20 years. (But what’s the catch, as with their tricksy doubling ground plan?)

Reverse ferret: Taylor Wimpey NOW agrees to sort out re-sale buyers of its rip-off ground rent leasehold properties

Financial Conduct Authority under pressure to force open secretive insurance commissions, so leaseholders can see what they are paying for

LKP quits FoPRA as it appoints Roger Southam an ‘esteemed honorary consultant’ – after re-surfacing from the Cayman Islands

Justin Madders MP asks why Redrow is selling freeholds at Ledsham Garden Village for £4,000 when they were £6,500. And what about those who paid too much?

House of Lords turns into the House of Serfs to attack the iniquity of leasehold ground rents

Rendall and Rittner … no insurance commissions, but it owns an offshore ‘captive’ insurance company making a 40% profit on leaseholders’ premiums

Bovis Homes leaseholder in Bristol cannot sell as ground rents reviewed every five years

NHBC controls up to 90% of new build warranties: law professors raise concerns …

Land Registry publishes new data on leasehold and fleecehold deals to help buyers and nudge Rightmove

Report from Tchenguiz Family Trust, Long Harbour and Wallace Estates seeks to side-line leasehold reforms by fear-mongering over fire safety

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

Milton Keynes cracks down on ‘fleecehold’ scams by housebuilders

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

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

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

Countryside Properties plc tells leaseholders wanting their freeholds: We’ve signed the pledge (and we’ve flogged them on, anyway) …