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A consultation for leaseholders in Wales

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

Cladding victims unimpressed by Robert Jenrick on BBC1’s Question Time

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

After ground rents and cladding … now lenders won’t touch rip-off ‘fleecehold’ properties either, BBC reports

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

Feudal Dubai cracks down on bloated service charges in flats … and puts added oomph in commonhold

Corbyn’s Labour guns for leaseholder vote in manifesto

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

Managers retrieve possessions of evacuated residents at cladding site Citiscape

Cladding crisis: How worse can it get?

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 …

Ruling blasts Israel Moskovitz’s lawyers for ‘wasting tribunal time’ in legal warfare that is ‘part of a pattern’, as RTM gains control of £69,000 funds

Residents at cladding site Citiscape allowed back in to retrieve possessions

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

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

Law Commission enfranchisement valuation models delayed for second time as election ‘purdah’ rules kick in

Reform laws on track for ‘second half of 2020’, Martin Boyd tells Property Week

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

‘Absolutely repugnant’ to make leaseholders pick up tab for deadly cladding, says Bob Blackman MP

Don’t forget about 10 million voters, Bottomley tells the government … which omitted leasehold reform from the Queen’s speech

National Leasehold Campaign activists hit the awards circuit

Advertising Standards Authority puts Crest Nicholson on the naughty step after billboard complaint

Esther McVey hints at new era of friendly cross-party consensus in Commons debate

Queen’s speech silent on meaningful leasehold and commonhold reform

Southwark hosts meeting of 350 council leaseholders

Stop ‘delaying and frustrating’ post-Grenfell remediation works, government urged on BBC R4 You and Yours

No new leasehold homes built in 2017/18 – Honestly?

NLC conveyancing report on BBC R4 You and Yours today

Gary Streeter MP: Hand over the freeholds at Saltram Meadows, Persimmon, or else lose Help To Buy …