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Is Gove an empty vessel making the loudest noise? asks Samantha Dixon. And where is Lord Best’s report on regulating property managers?

RICS dreams up another feeble ‘code of practice’, as Lord Best’s statutory regulator of property managers falls victim to Covid

Retirement housebuilders will only reform when they are forced to do so, Lord Best tells property conference

Will Lord Best’s regulator help break the power of freeholders over their leaseholder victims?

Lord Best report on regulating managing agents and service charges to be unveiled tomorrow

Lord Best: You wanted to hear what homeowners think about property management, so here is 22,000 words!

ARMA pleads to be on Lord Best’s regulatory working group. It should be. And so should LKP …

Will Lord Best’s proposals produce a healthy retirement housing market …

Time to have another look at commonhold, say Lords. But what are Lord Best’s proposals?

MPs aghast at Liam Spender’s account of being a leaseholder litigant. It is like ‘being a laboratory animal in a maze controlled by freehold-owning landlords and their enablers’

Interview with Lord Greenhalgh: I don’t think the leasehold reforms will be in the King’s Speech

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

Leaseholders defeat landlord trying to dodge consultation over a section 20 dispute in Court of Appeal

Lords from all parties trash government’s multi-billion pound give-away to freehold owners

Is this the best news for leasehold serfs since 1066? Quite possibly …

‘Five million leaseholders is a lot of votes’, the Lords are told

Sub-letting fees should not be more than £40, landlords are told (four times by the Land Tribunal)

Lords debate leasehold reform

LKP prompts Lords debate

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

Minister Rachel Maclean claims leasehold reform will be ‘a generational transformation’. Hugely welcome changes, but it’s scaled back as the government runs on borrowed time

We support leasehold reform but not abolishing it and leaseholders are served by ground rents, says the Residential Freehold Association

Don’t extend your lease if that puts you on the hook for building safety bills (this applies to non-highrises, too)

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

Westminster Forum: rare meeting where freeholders, leaseholders, professionals actually discussed leasehold reform … together

Government dumps Dame Judith Hackitt’s ‘building safety managers’, but what do the latest amendments to the Building Safety Bill mean for leaseholders?

Will government dump Dame Judith Hackitt’s £60,000 a year building safety managers job creation scheme?

Hackitt and Knight back dumping unregulated sector-insider ‘building safety managers’ onto leaseholders at £60,000 a year, MPs told

Sir Peter Bottomley calls on ministers to listen to ‘whistleblower’ ex-employees of Richard Davidoff (of ABC Estates)

LKP, NLC and FPRA decline to participate in trade body insiders’ code of conduct

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 …

Reform laws on track for ‘second half of 2020’, Martin Boyd tells Property Week

ARMA: prepare for a regulated leasehold management world