All Articles

Campaigner Katie Kendrick gets Rightmove to include lease details on sales listings

Housing association Network Homes seeks to dump some of its £200m cladding costs on leaseholders

Early Day Motion supported by Corbyn, McDonnell, Bottomley etc … in 2005

Housing data needs to help Bob Cratchit, not Ebenezer Scrooge

Our Father, who art in … Parliament

Is government really back-tracking on leasehold reform evidenced in Queen’s speech? LKP’s verdict is open …

Does Dominic Cumming’s gung-ho planning idea put a hole in Law Commission’s enfranchisement reforms by boosting freehold values?

Wellcome Trust ‘wrong’ over exploiting the lease extension racket in its property portfolio, Bottomley tells The Times

Cladding site? Come to parliamentary meeting on January 9 … and get your MP to attend as well

New fire safety certificate to unlock UK high-rise flat market after Advice Notice 14 resulted in valuations of zero, FT reports

Bellway to pay to remove wood from Barking Riverside fire site

LKP trustees Katie Kendrick and Louie Burns tell Sky News and BBC R4 MoneyBox of ‘David and Goliath’ fight for freeholds

Sector announces new building safety test for leasehold blocks to ‘keep the high-rise property market flowing’

Leaseholders and freeholder of evacuated Manchester block win £10.8m insurer payout for ‘serious defects’

Leaseholder of £3m pad in central London demands £100 a day off Gerald Ronson for no internet

Cladding site? Come to parliamentary meeting on January 9 … and get your MP to attend as well

LKP trustee Professor James Driscoll dies

Does Li Ka-shing own your Adriatic freehold, or Hutchison Whampoa, or billionaire Frank Sixt, or Astor? Only Long Harbour knows, and it’s not saying …

Families challenge Long Harbour for freeholds to Bellway leasehold houses, The Times reports

Cladding victims now being hit by insurance hikes, reports BBC R4 You and Yours

Grenfell United link up with leaseholder groups to protest cladding crisis and warn next government of Grenfell 2

Martin Lewis, the Money Saving Expert, challenges party leaders over leasehold scandal

Would you want your former Prudential pension invested in Tchenguiz ground rents by Rothesay Life? FT reports concerns

Why AN14 is making your cladding flat impossible to sell

Supreme Court blocks enfranchisement ploy that seems to be pure enrichment

‘You weren’t mis-sold your leasehold house and I am keeping my £45m bonus’, is the message of Persimmon CEO to Bluebell Meadow

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

Taxpayers funding two leasehold houses a day in 2019 through Help To Buy … despite government saying THREE times they should be banned

Retirement housebuilders will only reform when they are forced to do so, Lord Best tells property conference

Developers can now seize FREEHOLD homes, reports BBC R4 MoneyBox in shocking expose of ‘fleecehold’

Only one Grenfell cladding site in line for taxpayer handout as December 31st deadline looms, reports BBC R4 You and Yours

The Liberals (no, not those ones) register ‘severe dissatisfaction’ with Tory record on leasehold

‘Get leasehold done’? Boris Johnson’s Conservatives repeat 2017 pledges in manifesto