Secretariat of the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold reform

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Persimmon sleaze

Persimmon sold leasehold houses for £50,000 more than same-size freehold houses at Harrow View West

Spire View commonhold

Spire View, in Pickering, shows a commonhold future with no leases at all, says Sunday Times

Sir Peter Bototmley Leasehold Advisory Service

‘If I fail to offend anyone, I will do it next time,’ Bottomley tells appalled leasehold professionals at LEASE annual conference

Onslow Square forfeiture

Wellcome Trust spends £114,000 on lawyers to defeat Onslow Square leaseholder in £6,000 dispute

forfeiture by neighbour

Neighbour forfeits leaseholder’s £600,000 London maisonette for putting in a new bathroom

Will Astor

‘Cameron’s brother-in-law Will Astor and the toxic leasehold scandal’, Daily Mail

David Marsden Canary Riverside

Canary Riverside’s lawyers at Trowers & Hamlins in ‘ill-conceived’ bid to thwart Parliamentary debate

Claude Wehrle, Claude Schmidt Gwenaëlle Derrendinger)

Grenfell is becoming our worst corporate scandal, says Dominic Lawson in Sunday Times

Roy Wilshire

Getting Cayman Islands freeholders to help with cladding crisis is an additional difficulty, says UK’s top fire chief

Thea Gilmore leaseholders

LKP: Start as we mean to go on …

Martin Paine 'crook' MPs told

Martin Paine ‘is a crook who is turning sleaze in leases into an art form’, MPs told

McCarthy and Stone resale values

The Times reports that families ‘lost £3 billion’ on resale of leasehold retirement flats, while developers and freehold speculators made millions

E and J Captial Partners

Pensioner paid £38,000 for Taylor Wimpey freehold to ground rent speculators E&J Capital Partners

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

The Sun attacks ‘fatcat’ housebuilders with inflated fortunes thanks to Help To Buy

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24 Labour MPs invite FirstPort to Westminster to explain ‘consistent complaints’

Sarah Russell, elected MP for Congleton, is a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold reform and a signatory…

After begging to keep ground rents, why is McCarthy and Stone saying it now supports commonhold?

Why is McCarthy and Stone’s head of legal writing today in Inside Housing and saying “we are supportive of commonhold”?…

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News

Leaseholders in Ilfracombe can claim legal costs against wideboy freeholders over £2.6m wrongly demanded service charges, says Court of Appeal

Spender wards off attempt to frustrate his appeal over £590,000 ‘contract for eternity’ intercom systems

Cladding disaster will cost £16.6 billion, says National Audit Office. Million people stuck in dangerous homes. 2035 is end date for the debacle. Oh, and £500,000 has been stolen (so far)…

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

Freeholders on course for judicial review showdown against leasehold reforms in January

Southwark council’s leaseholder conference is an invaluable resource for all

Nick Hargrave

Davidoff libel action against ex-Number 10 policy advisor collapses

MPs set up new parliamentary group to reform leasehold

Fleecehold: The play. Back on stage in Camden August 22-24

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National Leasehold Campaign

This is the most effective forum for leaseholders ever created. It is on Facebook, founded by Katie Kendrick, Cath Williams and Jo Darbyshire – who are also all trustees of LKP. The three have established an invaluable campaign group for leaseholders

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News Archive

Freeholders face class action over insurance commissions

Government to go to war on ‘feudal’ leasehold … But no commitment to zero ground rents

Peter Bottomley: Many thanks

Leaseholders’ victory over ‘contracts for eternity’ is overturned by Upper Tribunal

Leasehold reform: So, was it worth it?

Damning ruling on E&J’s insurance over-charging

Why is the church blind to the injustices of leasehold?

Government seeks £20.5 million off John Christodoulou for Canary Riverside building safety works, reports FT

Sterling Estates Management fails to derail second effort at right to manage

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

Leaseholders are not the customer. They are the product, LKP tells Lords committee

More than six years after Grenfell and 15 months after the Building Safety Act, how does Labour Wales compare with Tory Westminster over fixing badly built blocks of flats?

Minnow developer Prime Metro has no assets. Warranty provider Acasta is stalling and in Gibraltar. How did seven £800k London flats get built in 2018 that are now falling apart and worth zero?

Dump the two-storey ‘ill-considered’ planning give-away to freeholders, says Sir Julian Lewis

Insurance pooling to lessen leasehold insurance bills appears to have stalled – but not commissions – says Sir Stephen Timms

We promised ‘fairness and transparency for leaseholders’ so let’s do it, says Bob Blackman

MPs call for fleecehold of private estates to be stamped out

Clive Betts: removing onerous ground rents is ‘completely compatible with the European convention on human rights’

Is Gove an empty vessel making the loudest noise? asks Samantha Dixon. And where is Lord Best’s report on regulating property managers?

‘Even Del Boy had limits, Mr Moskovitz,’ Stella Creasy tells MPs

Stop this ‘bad freeholders’ nonsense. Abuse in leasehold is organised, trained and systemic, says Ruth Cadbury MP

Lee Rowley and Matthew Pennycook duel political points over leasehold reform Bill

Freeholders cried crocodile tears for old ladies and said the pensions sector would be destabilised, says former housing minister. (And commonhold is ready to roll …)

Michael Gove: ‘squeeze every income stream that freeholders have’. Parliament debates leasehold reform Bill

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Astor's empire

Abacus Land sees its ground rents more than double to £711, thanks to RPI

Deadline today for freeholders to declare offshore beneficial ownership

When inflation linked ground rents are worse than ten-year doubling ones. That would be now …

Mick Platt

Can’t we hear why leasehold reform is bad straight from the top: from Count Padulli, or Will Astor, or James Tuttiett, or the Gould brothers, or Vincent Tchenguiz … ?

CMA slaps down doubling ground rents of 15 punters who bought cheating freeholds from Countryside Properties plc

Fletcher Court

Hallmark Property Group seeks to put 44 flats worth £15m on top of a block with ACM cladding, waking watch, a B2 rating after EWS1 … and 75 utterly stressed out leaseholders

Countryside Properties plc

National Leasehold Campaign email dump urges developers to settle up like Aviva and Persimmon have done with CMA

Long Harbour Board

Oh, dear! Long Harbour private equity speculators buy freehold where ground rent FALLS from £250 to £143

Sir Peter Bottomley furious

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

Tchenguiz Long Harbour Padulli

Beware ‘MacDUFF’ Scottish consumer-friendly land laws, say freeholders in lobbying report to save their incomes

Skyline Central HPL cladding

Long Harbour’s Adriatic Land backs leaseholders at Skyline Central 1 to get public money for HPL removal

fatcat freeholders

Fatcat freeholders SHAMED by MHCLG for having no plan to remove Grenfell cladding from their buildings include Long Harbour and James Tuttiett

More and more Astor’s empire

Local authority leasehold

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

Why not impose a revived Florrie’s Law cap on council major works rather than see leaseholders made homeless?

£100k major works bills wipe out council leaseholders. But why are 40% of Right To Buy homes now owned by investors?

Hackney EWS1 charge

Hackney charges leaseholders £750 for EWS1

Florrie’s Law fails again as Haringey council dumps £100,000 bills on leaseholders in the midst of the Covid-19 disaster

Clairon Property Ombudsman

Housing Ombudsman names and shames social landlords ‘consistently wrong’ with leaseholders and shared owners

An open letter to Robert Jenrick: the costs of delayed leasehold reform

Academic bars Oxford City Council from entering his flat to finish major works

Helen Hayes leasehold

Southwark announces new bills … and no funds for leaseholder group

Emma Lunn Help To Buy

Right-to-buy owners are also being ripped off by the leasehold system, The Guardian reports

Tory trailblazers get Tower Hamlets to come out for commonhold in London first

Southwark Meeting

Southwark hosts meeting of 350 council leaseholders

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