Sir Peter Bottomley

Is the betrayal narrative over leasehold reform being over-played?

Leasehold reform: So, was it worth it?

Leasehold Bill: What a missed opportunity, with just about every MP wanting to go further …

Our parliamentary briefing on the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill

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

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’

First step for major leasehold reforms: Martin Boyd appointed chair of Leasehold Advisory Service

Park home owners demo against 10% sales commissions

What is the point of this government, asks Lisa Nandy as it wriggles over promised leasehold reforms

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