Sebastian O’Kelly

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)

‘Dump Roger Southam. Appoint Sebastian O’Kelly,’ National Leasehold Campaign tells housing minister

Leaseholder activists rejected for positions on LEASE board

Telegraph reports ‘marketing cobblers’ of 999-year ‘virtual freeholds’ with lethal ground rents

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

Law Commissioner Stephen Lewis says LKP is right to expose ‘cowboys’

20% of ARMA members ‘walk out over new ethical scheme’

Benjamin Mire fails to block RICS disciplinary investigation in the high court

Three MPs are patrons as LKP applies to register as formal charity