Michael Gove

FCA finds ‘significant shortcomings’ in leasehold insurance. While Michael Gove urges it to look further

Galliard and Lendlease were quick to get leaseholders on the hook for building safety bills, now they won’t sign Michael Gove’s agreement to pay up

Michael Gove’s admission today that regulation failures in part caused Grenfell clears path to final resolution of the building safety crisis

At last a housing minister who seems to want to reform leasehold, and knows legal costs are being gamed to keep freeholders on top

Another buy-to-let leaseholder landlord faces ruin over building safety costs

Greenhalgh’s farewell to APPG: ‘I have a commonhold flat and there is nothing to fear its widespread adoption to replace leasehold’

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

Tory Treasurer Lord Leigh and Priti Patel’s family accused of gaming the opportunities of leasehold

Conservatives and RICS kicked back at insurance kickbacks in 2006. Unfortunately, they did nothing about it – and here we are

Nothing to do with us, says Poltair Homes CEO, over 80 blighted shared ownership houses in Cornwall

Note to Mr Gove: FSA was warning of ‘reputational risk’ in not cracking down on secret leasehold insurance commissions 17 years ago!

Michael Gove gets the cartel of taxpayer subsidised housebuilders to pay up £5bn towards the building safety scandal … but not Lendlease or Galliard

Government dumps Dame Judith Hackitt’s ‘building safety managers’, but what do the latest amendments to the Building Safety Bill mean for leaseholders?

Insurance insiders call for an end to secretive leasehold insurance commissions following Canary Riverside ruling

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

Gove calls on complacent FCA to stop the leasehold insurance rip-offs, and urges the CMA to get stuck in as well

As new ground rents ban gets Queen’s assent, LKP urges leaseholders to echo calls to action in its submission to government consultation on the next reforms …

The Building Safety Bill: what’s next and what can leaseholders do?

Making the polluter pay

Gove backs cladding leaseholders in urging investor Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) to make UK housebuilders pay for build defects

In Gove we trust, but developers can pay cash