Major works

Florrie’s Law fails again as Haringey council dumps £100,000 bills on leaseholders in the midst of the Covid-19 disaster

Housing associations furious at government’s 10-year repair-free offer to new shared owners

Building Safety Bill means … leaseholders are going to have to pay a lot of money to clear up the mess of other people

Is ‘Chapman’ the new ‘Daejan’?

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

An open letter to Robert Jenrick: the costs of delayed leasehold reform

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

John Christodoulou side-steps £4m ‘dou-dou’ at Beetham Tower, where leaseholders face bills of £40,000 each as the works begin

Right-to-buy owners are also being ripped off by the leasehold system, The Guardian reports

Lawyers offer pro bono aid to leaseholder facing QC in £24,000 dispute in Upper Tribunal

Southwark litigant-in-person leaseholder faces wipe-out after £24,000 tribunal victory. Council now deploys ‘shock and awe’ QC …

Oxford Council leaseholders have repair bills slashed from £50,000 to under £4,000

Oxford leaseholders win first round against £60,000 major works bills

Southwark council leaseholders see major works bill slashed from £17,000 to £8,000

Oxford council leaseholders each facing £50,000 bills head for the courts

Uproar in Oxford as 50 council leaseholders face bills of £50,000 each

George Osborne’s former nanny faces £100,000 bills and loss of home

Daejan v Benson: ‘on the whole good for landlords’

Supreme Court ruling on Daejan v Benson gives freeholders the whip-hand and is ‘a judgment that tenants might consider disappointing’

Epic leasehold battle ends with victory of freeholder in the Supreme Court