Fighting back

‘The genie is out of the bottle,’ three lawyers solemnly explain to industry insiders in Estates Gazette

Taylor Wimpey’s Pete Redfern tells FT ‘we got it wrong on ground rents’

Exclusive: Commonhold can only work if ground rents are banned, said Ministry of Justice – in 2009!

Tory maverick MP Crispin Blunt is urged to back Help To Buy ONLY on commonhold

Estate Agent Today supports LKP’s campaign to introduce commonhold

Housebuilders WILL benefit from commonhold, Hopton Build developer tells Law Commission

London mayor Sadiq Khan launches leasehold advice portal and slams LEASE as ‘unfit for purpose’

Leaseholders and the sector react to Law Commission reforms to commonhold and right to manage

Lawyers to Communities Select Committee: Stop ‘sticking plaster reforms’. End ‘draconian’ forfeiture. £10 ground rents a ‘mistake’. Make legal costs fair to leaseholders. Commonhold failed because developers make money out of leasehold …

Law Commission seminars on commonhold and RTM launched

LKP persuades government to allow commonhold tenure on Help To Buy

LKP praises Law Commission over commonhold in Telegraph

Officials fail to stop LKP publishing legal opinions on flawed reform of Recognised Tenants’ Associations (RTAs)

Recognised Tenants’ Association review – Part I

Recognised Tenants’ Association review – Part II

Recognised Tenants’ Association review – Part III

‘The time is right for commonhold,’ announces Law Commission. (Pity the government doesn’t agree …)

For God’s sake! Now it emerges £8.3 billion Help To Buy scheme – that turned house builder executives into multi-millionaires – is not available on commonhold properties!

LKP and Bottomley at Number 10 to reverse flawed reform of recognised tenants’ associations

Lawyers offer pro bono aid to leaseholder facing QC in £24,000 dispute in Upper Tribunal

Southwark litigant-in-person leaseholder faces wipe-out after £24,000 tribunal victory. Council now deploys ‘shock and awe’ QC …

Has Brokenshire trashed Sajid Javid’s reforms of leasehold?

Commonhold is back! House builder offers flats without leasehold tenancies

Civil service are fired up to reform leasehold, helped by the ‘personal commitment’ of the Secretary of State … Er

Why has it taken so long to regulate the leasehold sector?

Leasehold needs to stop being a means to produce ‘ever-increasing profits’, says Conveyancing Association

LKP guidance for responding to the government consultation on tackling unfair practices in the leasehold market

Urban Owners finds 41% of leaseholders have not had lease terms explained by solicitors

Commons Library’s excellent resume of leasehold problems will give MPs plenty of ideas for reform

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

Woman signs up to doubling ground rent to extend lease on £70,000 flat. Is it now sellable at all?

Time to ‘get political about leasehold’, says the Financial Times

End lease extension ‘injustice’, veteran MP urges Commons