Communities Select Committee

Shared ownership: Immensely complex; nothing shared when it comes to costs; clever ‘investors’ scent a revenue source to replace ground rents

Leaseholders helped over building safety crisis is now a ‘bizarre lucky dip’, say MPs

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

Communities Select Committee calls on government to scrap cladding loan scheme and establish a ‘Comprehensive Building Safety Fund’

Housing crisis. Possible banking crisis. And lease forfeitures ‘very, very soon’, Communities Select Committee is warned

Sector says ‘no, thanks’ to controversial Building Safety Bill

England’s cladding leaseholders could end up with equity stripped out of their homes, warns Welsh minister

LKP survey of EWS1 shows that 90% of cladding sites DO need remediation

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

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

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

Get commonhold done, London Assembly tells government

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 …

Southwark announces new bills … and no funds for leaseholder group

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

‘Absolutely repugnant’ to make leaseholders pick up tab for deadly cladding, says Bob Blackman MP

Esther McVey hints at new era of friendly cross-party consensus in Commons debate

Government is hiding behind Law Commission and CMA, says Tory MP Bob Blackman

Government’s slightly wobbly response to the excellent report of the Communities Select Committee

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

Communities Select Committee MPs issue devastating report into the toxic leasehold system

Taxpayer boost for offshore speculators as Help To Buy lands 17,000 home buyers in leasehold

Scorn for housing minister’s evidence to Select Committee

Lawyers to Communities Select Committee: Stop ‘sticking plaster reforms’. End ‘draconian’ forfeiture. £10 ground rents a ‘mistake’. Make legal costs fair to leaseholders. Commonhold failed because developers make money out of leasehold …

Can the Leasehold Advisory Service monopoly survive devastating questioning by Select Committee?