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Every other major economy has moved away from residential leasehold so why not us, asks shadow housing minister Sarah Jones

Welsh policymakers back monetary ground rents while pondering ‘compulsory commonhold’

Leaseholders pay up to 60% more for buildings insurance because of secret commissions, reports The Times

Number 10 chief of staff Gavin Barwell ‘delighted’ to be invited to present award to LKP

Seize ‘golden opportunity’ offered by Help To Buy 2021 to end taxpayer-funded spread of toxic leasehold, urges Tory MP

‘The genie is out of the bottle,’ three lawyers solemnly explain to industry insiders in Estates Gazette

Bob Blackman gets Theresa May to commit to ‘peppercorn’ ground rents … Let’s hope she knows what it means

Park home owners: government action better than expected (well, that’s sort-of positive)

For first time in 14 years, Westminster hears more of commonhold

Housing and Care 21: We’ve made a mess at Ashfield, so manage the site yourselves

Commonhold – How did it go so wrong?

Packed Westminster meeting for leasehold reform

LKP holds Westminster meeting on commonhold

Tchenguiz PR man detonates Bottomley eruption during Queen’s Speech debate

‘Drive your MPs mad to change leasehold,’ Gardner tells FPRA

Ex-minister Justin Madders becomes co-chair of APPG. Full list below:

Losing their £5m judicial review against the leasehold reforms threatens freeholders’ long era of primacy. So, what’s next?

Speak out in this government consultation by 26 September – because freeholders and their army of helpers will certainly do so

Judicial Review Final Day: Both sides face a nervous wait, but freeholders have already won delay

Judicial Review Day 3: Freeholders incur judge’s wrath as government opens its case

Your full guide to this week’s judicial review by freeholders to torpedo reform to leasehold

Government announces service charge reforms … with as much enthusiasm as a visit to the dentist

MPs step forward in the new All Party Parliamentary Group for leasehold and commonhold reform

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

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

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

Michael Gove: ‘squeeze every income stream that freeholders have’. Parliament debates leasehold reform Bill

Work with this leasehold reform Bill, or wait for Utopia? Minimum: another 3 more years

Net Zero is going to be difficult throughout the world … but with leasehold tenure, next to impossible

Investors see gold in retirement housing, but oldies have taken a look and remain wary … Brighter developers are pushing for change

Dudley Joiner, boss of the Right To Manage Federation, banned from being a company director – for the second time

RTMs and RMCs must check management contracts to avoid managing agents making expensive fire safety decisions with no oversight

£100k major works bills wipe out council leaseholders. But why are 40% of Right To Buy homes now owned by investors?