Giles Peaker

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

42 MPs back Starmer’s attempt to block rooftop planning give-away to freeholders

Andover asphalt major works war sees landlord forced to pay for leaseholders’ expert

Academic bars Oxford City Council from entering his flat to finish major works

Shared ownership: a misnomer that can be worse than renting and worse than leasehold, says solicitor

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 …