Sir Peter Bottomley

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

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

Wyldecrest thwarts attempts by park home activist Tony Turner to provide statement of accounts in upper property tribunal

Park home demonstrators demand end to 10% sales fees – as litany of crooked practice reported to MPs

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

Two former employees of ABC Estates ‘face £60,000 each in costs after libel claim, and must apologise in open court’

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

MPs join leaseholders at protest to ensure no one is left facing building safety cash calls

Michael Gove: Is this the robust inquiry into leasehold insurance fiddles that you wanted from the FCA?

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

Ted Baillieu: Your misconceived Twitter thread over the ‘polluter pays’ amendment should be removed

Taylor Wimpey to pay fire safety works on sites built over past 20 years. (But what’s the catch, as with their tricksy doubling ground plan?)

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

Well, can Sir Keith Lindblom do anything about Richard Davidoff’s continuing role as an officer of the property tribunal?

Hackitt and Knight back dumping unregulated sector-insider ‘building safety managers’ onto leaseholders at £60,000 a year, MPs told

Sir Peter Bottomley calls on ministers to listen to ‘whistleblower’ ex-employees of Richard Davidoff (of ABC Estates)

Sir David Amess, RIP. 1952-2021

LKP quits FoPRA as it appoints Roger Southam an ‘esteemed honorary consultant’ – after re-surfacing from the Cayman Islands

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

BBC2 Newsnight special on corrosive leasehold and the building safety crisis … with no minister present at all

LKP rejects threat of defamation proceedings from Canonbury Management

Bottomley calls on Boris Johnson to hold fire safety funding summit

Rendall and Rittner … no insurance commissions, but it owns an offshore ‘captive’ insurance company making a 40% profit on leaseholders’ premiums

Fire Safety Bill clears Parliament. So, what’s next?

Fire Safety Bill ricochets around Parliament as 31 Conservative MPs again vote against the government

Bankruptcies for leaseholders and billions entrusted to freeholders and their managers, APPG told

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

Lords from all parties trash government’s multi-billion pound give-away to freehold owners

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

Louie Burns’ ‘passion for justice’ praised in Commons by Justin Madders MP

After 60 consultations, Bottomley told ‘when parliamentary time allows’ for reforms promised three years ago

To build 8,120 new flats: Government gifts freeholders £41bn, devalues flats by £200m … and torpedoes leasehold reform