Sebastian O’Kelly

Work with this leasehold reform Bill, or wait for Utopia? Minimum: another 3 more years

New chair of LEASE tells MPs: time for the leasehold system to go gentle into that good night

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

Southwark council meets its leaseholders. Lambeth pays them off (and deploys NDAs)

Platinum Skies: £63,000 loss on £130,000 shared ownership retirement flat after new owner died 25 days after moving in

Park home owners demo against 10% sales commissions

Three quarters of Churchill Retirement flats have lost money when resold, says The Times

Sell-out run for ‘Fleecehold’, the play telling the story of the founders of the National Leasehold Campaign

Investors see gold in retirement housing, but oldies have taken a look and remain wary … Brighter developers are pushing for change

Retirement housebuilder Platinum Skies breached shared ownership rules with onerous ‘staircasing’ charges in the lease

Data tells us sprinklers work, waking watch doesn’t, and freehold punters aren’t picking up the tab, Martin Boyd tells ODI

Tower Hamlets leaseholders find their voice, host free building safety conference with LKP on June 15

Get commonhold done, London Assembly tells government

We are going to court if necessary to get ripped off leaseholders their money back, CMA tells BBCR4 MoneyBox

Fairview New Homes cancels sale as buyer wanted own solicitor and mortgage broker, says Times

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

RBS kicks leaseholders facing forfeiture when they are down, LKP tells FT

Law Commissioner wants to meet YOU: November 3

New trustees and changes at LKP

The Sun says … ‘thousands trapped in leasehold homes due to spiralling ground rent costs’

Pathetic efforts by plc housebuilders to address ground rent scandal exposed on TV

Sebastian O’Kelly addresses retirement property managers. Were you lynched? No, they agreed: leasehold ‘granny flats’ have no future

LKP tells BBC that property managers can’t regulate themselves. It needs government

MPs tell government consultation: End leasehold houses. Scrap new ground rents. Ignore pleas for self-regulation. Ban Help To Buy on rip-off leaseholds

Telegraph and Mail attack Nationwide for £54 million ground rent investments

Police may need to investigate ground rent scandal, says Bottomley

Developer recommended solicitors could face £500m bill, says Daily Mail

Why are leasehold house owners mobilising while flat owners suffer in silence?

Leasehold needs to be reformed, BBC Money Box Live is told

BBC R4 Today programme hears of ‘venal, greedy housebuilders’ playing the angles of leasehold

Taylor Wimpey ‘stretches credulity’ by refusing to list properties sold with doubling ground rents

Ground rent strike ‘a very real possibility,’ reports Daily Telegraph

LEASE chair Roger Southam in Private Eye (again)