Press

Regis Group’s rip-off insurance bill cut down by two-thirds at tribunal

Did government cop-out on retirement ground rents stuff new thinking in the sector?

Private Eye warns that Brokenshire’s £10 ground rents undermine reform of leasehold

‘Compo’ law firm FS Legal threatens libel action against National Leasehold Campaign co-founder

Why should Will Astor, Tchenguiz etc be paying to remove Grenfell cladding?

Sir Vince Cable condemns another government consultation over leasehold

Man killed by penthouse glass opposite Parliament

Private Eye identifies yet another murky offshore landlord, Vuillard Holdings Limited, with Grenfell cladding

Media coverage of leasehold problems just keeps on growing … Doesn’t that tell ministers something?

Sunday Times and MoneyWeek reference £600,000 forfeiture case

Is your leasehold home – from Taylor Wimpey, Persimmon etc – a life sentence? Ask the estate agents who can’t sell them

Don’t buy leasehold, says Merryn Somerset Webb of Money Week, but …

Kit Malthouse to meet Persimmon over doubling ground rent at Picket Twenty site

20,000 leaseholders trapped in blocks with Grenfell cladding, says Telegraph

Times journalist defeats MB Freeholds and RMG over insurance dispute

Barclays refuses mortgages over lease terms at Taylor Wimpey’s prime Chobham Manor

LKP’s essential leasehold guide in The Sunday Times … feel free to add

APPG hears agony of Grenfell cladding on private sites, while Lendlease sites head to tribunal to get leaseholders to pay

Ground rent speculators Pemberstone seek £3m tribunal ruling over Grenfell cladding

Retirement housebuilders and speculators plead to be allowed ground rents in the Evening Standard

McCarthy and Stone and Churchill: are you blackmailing government over the ground rent ban and is your business model broken? Asks BBC R4 MoneyBox

The Sun says … ‘thousands trapped in leasehold homes due to spiralling ground rent costs’

Tchenguiz brothers fall out among themselves, says The Times

New Capital Quay cladding may cost £7-10m, while NHBC sends in experts – and libel warning to BBC

Taxpayers face £85,000 loss as Homes England accepts leaseholder can pay back loan on flat blighted by Grenfell cladding

Will Law Commission bring in the ‘seismic changes’ that leasehold needs?

The Sun / The Times urge caution over leasehold purchases, while The Times / Guardian / Mail report Barratt paying out £2m at Citiscape

Floorweald and ABC Estates – an ARMA ‘good guy’ – overcharged leaseholders £27,000

Could paying off Help To Buy loans on blighted homes force government to act over Grenfell cladding … and doubling ground rents?

McCarthy and Stone: Ground rents are not the future of retirement housing

FT looks at financial consequence to freehold speculators of #leaseholdscandal

Pinsent Masons believes ban on ‘almost all’ new leasehold houses to have retrospective effect

Mail and Telegraph pile on the misery for Persimmon’s Jeffrey Fairburn (Good, says LKP, he deserves it)