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French resi service group Emeria clears out FirstPort management in take-over

Labour’s Lisa Nandy taunts Tories over ‘feudal’ leaseholds. Meanwhile, PM channels Thatcher to revive enfranchisement plans

Hallmark Property Group seeks to put 44 flats worth £15m on top of a block with ACM cladding, waking watch, a B2 rating after EWS1 … and 75 utterly stressed out leaseholders

Few disagreements over banning ground rents, but last minute effort to keep them for retirement properties by Theresa Villiers and Sir Desmond Swayne

Lobbying alert: Theresa Villiers MP speaks up for ground rents, freehold owners and making sure marriage value still pays off for freehold investors

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

MPs fail to stop Robert Jenrick’s multi-billion pound planning hand-out to offshore freeholders

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

Beware ‘MacDUFF’ Scottish consumer-friendly land laws, say freeholders in lobbying report to save their incomes

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

Louie Burns, LKP trustee, dies

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

Families challenge Long Harbour for freeholds to Bellway leasehold houses, The Times reports

The Times reports that families ‘lost £3 billion’ on resale of leasehold retirement flats, while developers and freehold speculators made millions

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

The Times reports that families ‘lost £3 billion’ on resale of leasehold retirement flats, while developers and freehold speculators made millions

FPRA annual conference: Labour has a clear leasehold reform agenda, but why are the Tories wobbly?

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Mass email dump: leasehold home owners demand their freeholds after Persimmon caves into court action

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

Boris’s PR gurus Crosby Textor have NOT been nobbling government over ground rents (well, not since autumn 2017 anyway …)

Ground Rent Addicts Anonymous sign Brokenshire’s pledge (three years after the scandal they created and denied existed)

Tory MP Stephen McPartland shames Long Harbour / Adriatic Land into dropping doubling ground rent leases

Are hedge funds behind Long Harbour, asks Tory MP

Help To Buy cheat Persimmon racks up £1bn profits – and spread the plague of leasehold houses around the country

Tchenguiz group dismisses government ‘hollow threat’ to make freeholders pay for Grenfell cladding removal

Pull the other one, Vincent! Leasehold reform hasn’t stuffed Fairhold. It was downgraded in 2015 …

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 …

Kate Osamor MP asks parliamentary questions for Long Harbour on ground rents, says Daily Telegraph

Countryside Properties plc and Long Harbour to offer deal to end ground rent scam at Silver Point

Grenfell cladding debate: Who thinks offshore freeholders will pay (apart from government ministers)?