Nigel Glen

Nigel Glen decamps to FirstPort, abandoning the ‘Property Institute’ (ARMA, IRPM)

Settlers Court: for the first time the Supreme Court considers right to manage. The result? Leaseholders get a battering over communal area management

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

ARMA becomes a lobbyist for freeholders

Self-interested freeholders and property managers chorus: ‘taxpayer must pay over cladding’ … which, as it happens, leaves their income streams untouched

Dame Judith Hackitt’s uninterest in leasehold tenure is like ‘wanting to build cars with no idea how they are driven’, says LKP

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

Land Registry publishes new data on leasehold and fleecehold deals to help buyers and nudge Rightmove

Insiders carve up code of practice for property managers – having been silent on systemic abuses for years!

Barking Riverside fire survivors round on secretive freeholder Adriatic Land, reports BBC R4

Brindley House cladding leaseholders face eviction, reports BBC R4 You and Yours

Has Coronavirus caused collapse in service charge receipts? Not yet, says ARMA, but we will see in September …

ARMA on commonhold: Falling leasehold values. Zombie apartment blocks. Plenty of scrapping. Lack of interest. But good business for professional managers …

LKP joins ARMA initiative to urge chancellor to fund re-cladding bills set to ruin 500,000 leaseholders

Victoria Derbyshire Show reports the toll of leasehold miseries on mental health

Anonymous freeholders are the reliable long-term custodians of blocks of flats, Select Committee is told

Leaseholders are apathetic, apart from the Dad’s Army figures running RTMs and RMCs, says the sector

Grenfell cladding crisis prompts the question: what are freeholders actually for?

Ground rent speculator Robert Steinhouse cuts and runs from Nova House, but who pays £4m Grenfell bill?

ARMA conference ‘worried’ that developers are exploiting new home owners

Commonhold or leasehold, it still needs managing

For first time in 14 years, Westminster hears more of commonhold