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The new leaseholders’ hero … Lloyd George

Is Salisbury Cathedral justified in putting the squeeze on leaseholders living on its close?

What if Berkeley had built Charter Quay as commonhold? Site visit by officials and Law Commission

Moskovitz forfeits £400k Camden flat from 24-year-old woman ‘whose brother did not forward correspondence for two years’

Fairview New Homes cancels sale as buyer wanted own solicitor and mortgage broker, says Times

What to do about the Grenfell cladding scandal, asks Oxford conference

Countryside Properties plc tells leaseholders wanting their freeholds: We’ve signed the pledge (and we’ve flogged them on, anyway) …

LKP meets Competition and Markets Authority over leasehold house mis-selling

South Somerset council enters the ‘fleecehold’ racket

Barratt evacuates Grenfell cladding site Citiscape

Redrow: ‘shoddy workmanship and leasehold games’, but bumper profits from Help To Buy

John McDonnell is a leaseholder, reveals Daily Mail in hatchet job article

Scale of leasehold house scandal revealed in mass email dump to house builder bosses

Mass email dump: leasehold home owners demand their freeholds after Persimmon caves into court action

Ken Clarke says ‘serious problems’ in leasehold

Harrow to hit council leaseholders with £4,500 fire safety bills

Britain’s biggest managing agent FirstPort sold on – again

Elderly Accommodation Counsel says ‘recent retirement flat resales have increased in value’

LKP saves family £25,000 over shared equity McCarthy and Stone lease

Estate of leasehold campaigner Nigel Wilkins leaves £10,000 to LKP

Wanda Goldwag: You owe an apology. You know it. And it is overdue

Boris Johnson praises campaign for leaseholders who are being ‘cheated’

Speculators in freeholds knew the risks and can take the hit, suggests Labour shadow City minister Jonathan Reynolds MP

Reviewer of building regulations admits post-Grenfell safety regime open to abuse by rogue freeholders

Every other major economy has moved away from residential leasehold so why not us, asks shadow housing minister Sarah Jones

If government co-operated we could fix the leasehold scandal, says Labour MP Justin Madders

Countryside Properties plc shafted buyer by selling his freehold to Tuscola Ltd in the British Virgin Islands, says Liz McInnes MP

Industrial-scale ground rent rip-offs have turned leasehold properties into short-term tenancies, says Maria Eagle

Developers moderating their cheating makes it worse for leaseholders who are trapped, says Fiona Bruce MP

Government is hiding behind Law Commission and CMA, says Tory MP Bob Blackman

Time to ban Redrow in Liverpool, asks leasehold victim Rosie Cooper MP – who also names stooge solicitors Bannister Preston

Don’t trust developers to put right the wrongs that they created, Clive Betts tells government

John Healey blasts the government over lack of support for existing leaseholders as Tory backbench unease grows