Mike Amesbury MP

MPs set up new parliamentary group to reform leasehold

Minnow developer Prime Metro has no assets. Warranty provider Acasta is stalling and in Gibraltar. How did seven £800k London flats get built in 2018 that are now falling apart and worth zero?

Michael Gove: ‘squeeze every income stream that freeholders have’. Parliament debates leasehold reform Bill

Minister Rachel Maclean claims leasehold reform will be ‘a generational transformation’. Hugely welcome changes, but it’s scaled back as the government runs on borrowed time

MPs aghast at Liam Spender’s account of being a leaseholder litigant. It is like ‘being a laboratory animal in a maze controlled by freehold-owning landlords and their enablers’

Dismal picture of leasehold emerges from MPs’ debate. But no government commitment on reforms

Shadow housing brief passes from Mike Amesbury to Matthew Pennycook

Sun shines on the leaseholders’ demo at Parliament: after Jenrick, is this a new dawn?

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

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

Lords warn government of “tidal wave of protest” at new right for freeholders to add extra floors without permission

Cladding leaseholders issue united video appeal to demand government help

Government may help over waking watch bills

Mike Amesbury: Young, highly mortgaged, often shared owners, with now uncertain employment … are facing homelessness and ruin over cladding

Number 10 chief of staff Gavin Barwell ‘delighted’ to be invited to present award to LKP

MPs turn out in force to welcome leaseholder demonstrators at Westminster

98% of rip-off lease sales broke consumer protection rules, says Conveyancing Association

Housebuilders ground rent scandal compo schemes ‘must go further and faster’, says housing minister

‘Our David Wilson Homes leasehold house means we don’t own it, or the land, pay ground rent and consent fees to anonymous speculators in freeholds, often based offshore,’ Cheshire woman tells local paper

Leasehold issues raised at prime minister’s questions