Sebastian O'Kelly

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

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

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

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

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

Ground rent baron James Tuttiett gives £8,500 to the Tories (which is a bit stingy, considering …)

Help! Is there a WordPress using leaseholder out there?

Churchill Retirement donates £150,000 to Conservatives. To retain ground rents, by any chance?

LKP patron Jim Fitzpatrick retires as one of Labour’s most respected MPs

Managers retrieve possessions of evacuated residents at cladding site Citiscape

17,000 households living in private blocks with dangerous cladding like Grenfell

Guardian reports dismal retirement flat re-sale prices, as seller ponders £28,000 offer

Can the Tories wriggle out of reforming leasehold? Don’t bet on it …

Residents at cladding site Citiscape allowed back in to retrieve possessions

FPRA annual conference: Labour has a clear leasehold reform agenda, but why are the Tories wobbly?

Shared ‘ownership’ is NOT ownership. It’s the ‘pay-day loan’ of housing and most regret having bought, London Assembly told

ARMA: prepare for a regulated leasehold management world

NLC conveyancing report on BBC R4 You and Yours today