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Category: aaa What is LKP?
- Three MPs are patrons as LKP applies to register as formal charity
- Leasehold websites hit 29,000 visitors
- What is LKP?
Category: Commons Debate 20/12/16
- We want to hear more from developers putting things right, says housing minister
- Martin Paine ‘is a crook who is turning sleaze in leases into an art form’, MPs told
- Benjamin Mire ‘not fit to go on being a member of RICS’
- ‘Reverse the Mundy case on lease valuations by statute if necessary’
- Mixed verdict on Leasehold Advisory Service
- Luke and Brian Comer using ‘tricks’ to stop Platinum House getting right to manage
- Tchenguiz ‘skulduggery’, Peverel / Cirrus bid-rigging scam and Charter Quay: all get another outing
- Right to manage woes at Elim and Regent Courts retirement sites
- Tribute to housebuilder Bob Bessell, who says ground rents have no justification
- Campaign against Residential Leasehold Exploitation reveals abysmal retirement housing re-sale values
Category: Fighting back
- Category: Commonhold
- Category: Find MP ... and see how many leasehold voters
  - Find MP … and see how many leasehold voters they have
- Category: Lease Extension
- Category: LVT/Property Chamber Survival
- Category: Recognised Tenants' Association
- Category: Tribunal triumphs ... and defeats
  - Rendall and Rittner managing agent who stole £122,000 for a ‘Made in Chelsea’ lifestyle
Category: Ground rent scandal
- LKP trustees Katie Kendrick and Louie Burns tell Sky News and BBC R4 MoneyBox of ‘David and Goliath’ fight for freeholds
- 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
- ‘Get leasehold done’? Boris Johnson’s Conservatives repeat 2017 pledges in manifesto
- Ground rent baron James Tuttiett gives £8,500 to the Tories (which is a bit stingy, considering …)
- Churchill Retirement donates £150,000 to Conservatives. To retain ground rents, by any chance?
- Esther McVey hints at new era of friendly cross-party consensus in Commons debate
- 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 …
- Fairview New Homes cancels sale as buyer wanted own solicitor and mortgage broker, says Times
- 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
- 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
- Now it is Shanly Homes dumping its customers into unsellable homes
- Tory MP Eddie Hughes moves private member’s bill to cap existing ground rents at £250
- Better late than never for the CMA?
- Freehold for Elan Homes leasehold house doubles in price to £15,900 four months after being sold to Landmark Investments
- Beware ground rent addicts bearing gifts with their good conduct pledge
- UK Finance mortgage lenders doled out cash on dodgy leases, but don’t know how many now can’t sell
- Housebuilders sitting on 600,000 plots of land, while taxpayers pour in billions through Help To Buy
- Taylor Wimpey recommended conveyancing solicitors go bust after one is jailed for stealing £280,000
- Did government cop-out on retirement ground rents stuff new thinking in the sector?
- Long Harbour lobby MP Kate Osamor bars leasehold activist from Twitter feed
- Ground rents to be allowed in retirement housing, says government
- Has Brokenshire trashed Sajid Javid’s reforms of leasehold?
- MPs turn out in force to welcome leaseholder demonstrators at Westminster
- Ground rents are so valid … to pay out £300m bonuses to Persimmon cronies
- 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
- Taylor Wimpey’s snake oil ground rent review scheme makes toxic leases even worse: in my case, £25m worse!
- Gleeson won’t sell leasehold houses, but freehold ones come with ‘fleasehold’ covenants, says Justin Madders
- Housebuilders ground rent scandal compo schemes ‘must go further and faster’, says housing minister
- £19,200 a year ground rents at Crawford Building are not our problem, says Redrow
- Guardian reports misery of leasehold home owners trapped by John Lewis Partnership Pension Trust – and the Mail, Sun, Mirror and Lad Bible (any we have missed?)
- Telegraph reports case of Taylor Wimpey pensioner who has paid £38,000 for his freehold … and now won’t help him
- John Lewis Partnership Pensions Trust tells leaseholder it will ‘disinvest’ in doubling ground rents
- E&J Capital Partners ‘compelled’ to sell freehold to Taylor Wimpey house to pensioner for £38,000 (plus £4,000 costs)
- Has Taylor Wimpey done just enough to avoid being successfully sued?
- Taylor Wimpey and Long Harbour deal to defuse toxic lease scandal … after 11 months!
- MailOnline forensically examines Taylor Wimpey couple stuck in leasehold house with £590pa to Adriatic Land
- Ground Rents Income Fund plc offers help to leaseholders … in order to keep this grisly show on the road
- Criticism over bumper pay bonuses for Persimmon and Berkeley bosses
- Now Bovis says ‘Our houses are freehold’. (Gleeson’s always were …)
- Furious Persimmon leasehold house owners at Harrow View West demand their freeholds
- Countryside Properties plc cracks over ground rents scandal …
- Should you buy a leasehold house now? Certainly not!
- Protestors gather outside ANOTHER housebuilder: Galliford Try
- Ground Rents Income Fund plc says it wants to be a ‘socially responsible landlord’. How about: socially responsible ex-landlord?
- Murky investors hitching a ride on the English (and Welsh) homeowner, thanks to leasehold
- Savills and Allsops: Why ground rents from people’s home are just so ‘attractive’
- Ground rent protestors stage ANOTHER demonstration against leasehold houses and charges
- Daily Mail reports E&J Estates and wine-growing freeholder James Tuttiett
- Scandal makes Ground Rents Income Fund plc fall £6m since March but … it has paid out 40.6% in three years
- Housebuilders and stooge conveyancing solicitors face legal action, reports The Times
- Guardian says: It’s time to send the feudal leasehold system crashing. Amen, to that
- Guardian (again today) on freeholders’ endless fees
- James Tuttiett’s tangled web of E&J freeholds scrutinised by the Guardian
- First squawk from the (smaller) house builders
- Patrick Collinson, of The Guardian, … on leasehold
- Daily Mail on leasehold houses and doubling ground rent scandals
- One article among many yesterday … from LKP
- Government to ban leasehold houses and set ground rents ‘as low as’ zero
- I had to spend £14,000 to change double ground rent to RPI at Ausden Place. But will I get compo from Taylor Wimpey?
- Marie Rimmer MP: how can a modest Taylor Wimpey leasehold house in St Helens pay out £185,850 to freehold investors over 60 years?
- Stella Creasy MP backs leasehold reform … and Kirstie Allsopp is Tweeting to stop leasehold house sales
- Buyers walk away from toxic Persimmon leasehold house
- Taylor Wimpey gets round ‘right of first refusal’ to buy freehold by selling the block BEFORE more than half flats are sold
- Taylor Wimpey ground rent “assistance” review -update
- BBC R4 You and Yours now turns to Countryside’s doubling ground rents
- Housebuilders attempt to justify leasehold scams on ITV’s New Build Nightmares
- Doubling ground rents owned by John Lewis Partnership Pension Trust … and managed by Tchenguiz
- Ratner moment for UK housebuilders, says Chris Blythe, CEO of Chartered Institute of Building
- Bloor Homes, which builds leasehold houses, gives £400,000 to the Conservative Party
- Local media takes up the leasehold housing scandal
- Vans are banned in Persimmon leases, so here is one outside your sales suite!
- Bannister Preston and Cohen Filippini Solicitors ‘errors’ over ground rents, says BBC
- Election: Your chance to ask Theresa May about the leasehold scandals
- Taylor Wimpey: Secretive £130m ‘compo’ is PR fluff and not good enough
- Guardian’s Patrick Collinson welcomes Nationwide exploding the ground rent scandal
- Police may need to investigate ground rent scandal, says Bottomley
- Nationwide bans mortgages on doubling ground rent properties
- Guardian reports the Taylor Wimpey £130m offer to settle ground rent scandal
- Pete Redfern tells LKP how Taylor Wimpey will sort the ground rent scandal
- Taylor Wimpey to pay £130 million to solve doubling ground rent scandal
- CML says lenders ‘reviewing loans to reflect concerns about onerous ground rents’
- Developer recommended solicitors could face £500m bill, says Daily Mail
- BBC R4 Today programme hears of ‘venal, greedy housebuilders’ playing the angles of leasehold
- Ground rent scandal risks becoming full-blown crisis as loans are refused on blighted homes
- Leasehold houses to be outlawed, says the Daily Mail
- Ask Louie Burns: The leasehold houses scandal and what you can do about it
- Sajid Javid pledges Help To Buy clampdown on ‘feudal’ leasehold terms
- Leasehold houses expose ‘gulf between the letter and the spirit of the law’, say ministers
- Leaked Taylor Wimpey document showing doubling ground sales TODAY is “an oversight”
- Bottomley tells BBC R4: Clear out sector stooges from LEASE. Stop barring LKP trustees. Bring justice quickly to leasehold house owners.
- Leaseholders demand end to Redrow selling leasehold houses
- Taylor Wimpey ‘stretches credulity’ by refusing to list properties sold with doubling ground rents
- Does Steve Morgan deserve a demo on Redrow’s doorstep?
- Leaseholders to stage ground rent demo at Redrow’s Ledsham Garden Village
- Ground rent strike ‘a very real possibility,’ reports Daily Telegraph
- Some of our freehold clients are offshore, admits Will Astor’s HomeGround
- ITV News covers the leasehold house scandal, and homeowners stage mass demo on March 18
- Dear Pete Redfern (again) … Opaque leases, dubious ‘independent’ legal advice, no contact from Taylor Wimpey during its ‘review’, normal industry practice to stuff clients with leasehold houses (especially in North West)
- ‘I don’t see why houses are sold leasehold,’ says prime minister. Is this the final nail?
- Taylor Wimpey rejects responsibility to resale buyers facing doubling ground rents
- Linden Homes calls in libel lawyers to silence customer who spoke to BBC
- No van man here: Persimmon bans first-time buyer from parking his van at his leasehold house
- STOP Selling new build leasehold houses demands Leader of the House of Commons
- Homebuyer calls for Persimmon boycott, and local MP Andrew Selous agrees with him!
- ‘No other law so blatantly allows the wealthiest to rip off those less so,’ says the Sunday Times of leasehold
- Dear Gavin Barwell … our Taylor Wimpey leasehold house means my pension will be eroded
- Dear Jeffrey Fairburn … Can I buy the freehold to a Persimmon house before you sell it to anonymous investors, please?
- Dear Pete Redfern … Taylor Wimpey cheated us: what are you doing about it?
- Taylor Wimpey delays ground rent scandal ‘review’ to April, and hopes, like Mr Micawber, ‘something will turn up’
- Leasehold rip-offs are ‘legalised extortion’ by housebuilders, says Chartered Institute of Building
- BBC R4 You and Yours exposes Taylor Wimpey buyers facing doubled ground rents to £500 before 10 years have passed
- Victoria Derbyshire told ‘we must end cheating speculators in leasehold housing’
- Gavin Barwell: ‘No excuse for leasehold houses or punitive ground rents and we will stamp them out’
- Housebuilders ‘pimp their profits’ by selling freeholds, says Financial Times columnist
- Taylor Wimpey’s Speakman Gardens now erupts in protest
- Help offered to leasehold house owners facing onerous ground rents
- Buyer pulls out of Persimmon £219,995 leasehold house purchase
- Beech Developments sets off customer mutiny in Wales with grasping ground rents
- ITV News says 45,000 leasehold houses sold in last five years. LKP claims £300-500m new home freeholds sold every year
- Sapphire Fields comes clean over leasehold terms
- Shaken ground rent whistleblower pulls out of BBC radio interview after lawyer’s letter
- Taylor Wimpey more greedy than the ground rent ‘Mr Smallweeds’ (and so are other plc housebuilders)
- Labour to cap ‘legalised extortion’ of ground rents and end leasehold houses … Opposition and government now compete to reform leasehold
- Fill in our survey to demonstrate the new-build ground rent scandal
- Sajid Javid vows to ‘stamp out abuses’ over leasehold that make homes unsellable
- Sunday Times reports Taylor Wimpey ground rent scandal, as executives meet leaseholders
- Last year: £64.8bn leasehold properties sold. £13.7bn was new-build. Leasehold house numbers double. Developers make £300-500 million a year from ground rent sales
- Taylor Wimpey ground rent explanation ‘not true’, BBC is told
- Ban revenue-generating leasehold houses, says Justin Madders MP. Redrow responds
- Sunday Telegraph says ‘New homes, yes, but not leasehold’
- ‘New-build ground rent scandal could spark legal battles,’ says Guardian
- Taylor Wimpey CEO says doubling ground rent scandal under ‘review’. But Bottomley asks: ‘Have innocent homebuyers been shafted?’
- Telegraph reports ‘marketing cobblers’ of 999-year ‘virtual freeholds’ with lethal ground rents
- Bottomley tells Taylor Wimpey to explain ‘sharp practice’ ground rents – and asks for names of directors who approved them
- Pete Redfern: Stop pontificating about the housing crisis and sort out the ground rent scandal of Taylor Wimpey’s own making
- First-time buyers facing £8,000 ground rents stuffed by plc housebuilders
- Taylor Wimpey woes reported in Estates Gazette
- Surge in new-build leasehold houses with £1.9 billion sold last year
- Leasehold houses scandal widens as developers face MPs
- Disgraceful leasehold houses reported in Guardian today
- Would you choose a good night out, or 500 freehold acres of Mayfair and Belgravia?
Category: Home Middle Left
- Deep Sagar, chairman of LEASE, threatens LKP over ‘Wibble, Wobble’ article calling for reform
- LEASE 2013: ‘Leasehold must reform, or media will sink their teeth in’
- LEASE 2013: Pitiful contrast between professional and leaseholder sessions
Category: Home Middle Right
- Daejan leasehold fury at LEASE’s £50 webinar
- Prisk to Bottomley: what’s the evidence that the Leasehold Advisory Service is not ‘balanced’? Well, how about this for starters …
- Sebastian O’Kelly and Martin Boyd praised in House of Commons: put them on the board of LEASE and clear up the ‘muck’ of leasehold
- LEASE denies seeking bungs to pass ordinary leaseholders on to professional services
- Leasehold Advisory Service: ‘Lawyers here won’t even speak to me, because I cannot afford their fees’
- LEASE: Find some backbone, or face the chop!
Category: Latest News
- Campaigner Katie Kendrick gets Rightmove to include lease details on sales listings
- 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?
- Leaseholder of £3m pad in central London demands £100 a day off Gerald Ronson for no internet
- LKP trustee Professor James Driscoll dies
- Cladding victims now being hit by insurance hikes, reports BBC R4 You and Yours
- Martin Lewis, the Money Saving Expert, challenges party leaders over leasehold scandal
- 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
- Taxpayers funding two leasehold houses a day in 2019 through Help To Buy … despite government saying THREE times they should be banned
- Retirement housebuilders will only reform when they are forced to do so, Lord Best tells property conference
- 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
- Help! Is there a WordPress using leaseholder out there?
- After ground rents and cladding … now lenders won’t touch rip-off ‘fleecehold’ properties either, BBC reports
- 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
- 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 …
- 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
- ‘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
- 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?
- Is Salisbury Cathedral justified in putting the squeeze on leaseholders living on its close?
- 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
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- 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
- 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
- Welsh policymakers back monetary ground rents while pondering ‘compulsory commonhold’
- Martin Boyd flags controversial civil servant letter to City Hall at fire safety meeting
- Leaseholders pay up to 60% more for buildings insurance because of secret commissions, reports The Times
- Will Lord Best’s regulator help break the power of freeholders over their leaseholder victims?
- Bottomley thanks Number 10 for leasehold reform … while colleague brands Persimmon ‘crooks, cowboys and con artists’ at prime minister’s questions
- Ending ground rents will hurt leaseholders, says Long Harbour …
- ONS trumpets collapse in sales of new-build leasehold houses
- The i newspaper links leasehold ‘slums of the future’ to Help To Buy and the Tchenguiz Family Trust
- Lord Best report on regulating managing agents and service charges to be unveiled tomorrow
- Park homes like leasehold with serious menace added, LKP tells Guardian
- Jeremy Corbyn raises forfeiture case at prime minister’s questions
- Labour promises to banish leasehold to the history books
- Political arms race commences as Labour announces £250 ground rents for existing leaseholders
- Seize ‘golden opportunity’ offered by Help To Buy 2021 to end taxpayer-funded spread of toxic leasehold, urges Tory MP
- Government’s slightly wobbly response to the excellent report of the Communities Select Committee
- Victoria Derbyshire Show reports the toll of leasehold miseries on mental health
- Boris’s PR gurus Crosby Textor have NOT been nobbling government over ground rents (well, not since autumn 2017 anyway …)
- Is this the best news for leasehold serfs since 1066? Quite possibly …
- Have young buyers woken up to the great leasehold hoax? Looks like it …
- BBC R4 MoneyBox hears that a CMA mis-selling ruling could see leaseholders suing plc house builders. Hope so!
- Freeholders given makeover as ‘duty-holders’ with an identifiable ‘responsible person’ in post-Grenfell overhaul of building safety regs
- Estate agents say extortionate charges are blighting the lives of 10% of leaseholders
- Board ousted at St Katherine’s Dock after whopping £5.5m major works bill
- Will CMA investigation at last give cheated leaseholders the chance to sue plc house builders?
- Long Harbour hits reverse on forfeiture to £800,000 flat over £400 ground rent … and JB Leitch halves its legal bill
- Press reports how freehold doubled in price to £15,900 after being sold to Landmark Investments
- Lord Best: You wanted to hear what homeowners think about property management, so here is 22,000 words!
- Peterborough by-election Brexit Party candidate was director of E&J Ground Rents
- LKP wins representation on Mayor of London’s new housing policy panel
- Videos on LKP YouTube channel
- Government will cave in to retirement house builders over ground rents, says Times
- Here’s the National Leasehold Campaign pledge, after the government panders to the sector over its PR piffle emitted last month
- Bob Blackman gets Theresa May to commit to ‘peppercorn’ ground rents
- Leaseholder and judge Suki Johal wins war over her patio that has cost £250,000
- Steve Norris, of Soho Estates, has skin in the game when he opposes commonhold
- Leasehold debate on BBCR2 Jeremy Vine Show
- Leasehold on Jeremy Vine show …
- RBS kicks leaseholders facing forfeiture when they are down, LKP tells FT
- Hurray! Clarion leaseholders fight £32,000 major works bills
- BBCR4 You and Yours full programme dedicated to leasehold
- £146,257 – the highest major works bill ever?
- Social landlords should not be abusing their unbalanced powers against leaseholders
- Brokenshire letter to MPs explaining his reforms … and accepting Law Commission endorsement of event fees
- Why is reforming leasehold harder than space travel, asks Sunday Telegraph
- Commonhold is common sense: response to Charles Russell Speechlys propagandising for leasehold in CityAM
- Ground Rent Addicts Anonymous sign Brokenshire’s pledge (three years after the scandal they created and denied existed)
- 87,000 properties in England and Wales owned by offshore companies, says Global Witness
- Tory MP Stephen McPartland shames Long Harbour / Adriatic Land into dropping doubling ground rent leases
- At last! A public defence of the leasehold system from an articulate freeholder …
- Brokenshire demanding action for 100,000 trapped in toxic leasehold homes five months ago
- Leasehold first-time buyers trapped in leasehold homes with £800 ground rents, says BBC
- FirstPort named twice in Commons today
- Huw Merriman calls for zero ground rents for retirement leasehold at prime minister’s questions
- UK Finance should take a running Jupp with these lame excuses …
- Are hedge funds behind Long Harbour, asks Tory MP
- 18% of leasehold houses paid for with Help To Buy, says FT in devastating attack
- Help To Buy cheat Persimmon racks up £1bn profits – and spread the plague of leasehold houses around the country
- Advertising Standards Authority rules against Notting Hill Genesis on over-egged shared ownership adverts
- Why is the Tory party not supporting real home ownership, asks Daily Telegraph
- Neo Bankside leaseholders fail to stop Tate visitors snooping through their windows
- Anti-leasehold petition gains 10,000 signatures in under a week
- Still hope for zero ground rents, says Brokenshire. Please end them for retirement too, says LKP
- LKP welcomes Law Commission work on right to manage
- New LEASE chair declines to endorse peppercorn ground rents on BBC
- Tchenguiz group says profiting from Grenfell cladding scandal would be ‘abhorrent’ and won’t happen
- Falling property prices expose pension exposure to equity release, warns LKP trustee
- Your Housing Group shared equity retirement flat sells for £39,129.26, after three years on the market
- Scilly Isles leaseholders rebel against Prince Charles’s ‘feudal’ Duchy of Cornwall, in Law Commission evidence
- New interim chair for troubled quango LEASE
- Family outraged by £50,000 exit fee on sale at Retirement Villages’ Mayford Grange
- MHCLG website dumps leaseholders’ responses to consultation, says NLC
- Officials fail to stop LKP publishing legal opinions on flawed reform of Recognised Tenants’ Associations (RTAs)
- The Economist notes LKP’s agenda to reform leasehold
- Law Commission doesn’t expect leasehold reform before 2020
- Respond NOW to government consultation to reform leasehold
- Could freeholder Christopher Moran clean up big time by closing the brothels at Chelsea Cloisters?
- Tribunal tells freeholder Israel Moskovitz to drop the ‘nonsense’ to frustrate right to manage
- Keep the leasehold racket unreformed, Mainstay begs MPs
- Questions for MPs to ask Taylor Wimpey and Long Harbour today …
- “Severe dissatisfaction” with the leasehold crisis says Liverpool Council
- Unhappy doubling ground rent customers deluge TrustPilot and TripAdvisor
- VAT on house managers’ wages will cost leaseholders £50m a year
- Property manager who champions leaseholders resigns from Tory party over ‘watered down’ reforms
- Welsh Assembly evidence over Grenfell cladding costs by FPRA ‘consultant’ Cassandra Zanelli is called into question
- Let government know just what you think about property tribunal reform
- Even if you only respond to one question, take part in the Law Commission consultation!
- Government action on leasehold scandal has been ‘too weak and too slow’, says John Healey
- ‘Uncharitable’ Mary Magdalene and Holy Jesus Trust and the issue of lease extensions
- Brokenshire to meet house builders and freehold investors … but no leaseholders
- Select Committee on leasehold, November 5 2018
- Google removes FS Legal’s advertisement ‘falsely implying affiliation’ with NLC
- Private Eye warns that Brokenshire’s £10 ground rents undermine reform of leasehold
- Law Commission meets leaseholders in Manchester
- Anger at Law Commission meetings in offices of freeholders’ solicitors
- Southwark litigant-in-person leaseholder faces wipe-out after £24,000 tribunal victory. Council now deploys ‘shock and awe’ QC …
- LKP London meeting for leaseholders November 10
- Lies, damned lies and statistics
- Flush with money: how Kier Homes leaseholders pay for a public toilet in Worthing
- ‘Compo’ law firm FS Legal threatens libel action against National Leasehold Campaign co-founder
- Park home owners: government action better than expected (well, that’s sort-of positive)
- LKP predicts the future
- No help for leaseholders trapped in unsellable homes, says government
- £10 ground rents applies to flats and house
- Sir Vince Cable condemns another government consultation over leasehold
- Younger managing agents seek answers over leasehold reform (without the usual agendas of the trade bodies)
- Pemberton Greenish worker tells Cadogan Estate bigwig: you’re a c***t!
- Leaseholders thank JFM for turning around RTM site with £45,000 service charge arrears, reducing them to £800 in four months
- Man killed by penthouse glass opposite Parliament
- Media coverage of leasehold problems just keeps on growing … Doesn’t that tell ministers something?
- Park home champion Sonia McColl OBE thanks all for help over stolen home
- Law Commission consultation on enfranchisement
- The Social Housing Green Paper – the government should do more, says ex-civil servant
- Kate Osamor MP asks parliamentary questions for Long Harbour on ground rents, says Daily Telegraph
- New trustees and changes at LKP
- 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
- Is the Bank of England pandering to freeholders over punitive lease valuations?
- Barclays refuses mortgages over lease terms at Taylor Wimpey’s prime Chobham Manor
- How scam values on equity release loans affect leaseholders. And YOU need to stop it …
- Keep raising leasehold with Advertising Standards Authority
- LKP’s essential leasehold guide in The Sunday Times … feel free to add
- Is LEASE an institutionally corrupted organisation?
- Select Committee Leasehold reform inquiry launches
- LKP response to Law Commission on leasehold houses
- No more Help To Buy payola to developers for leasehold houses
- Louie Burns publishes £2.63 ebook guide for leaseholders
- The Sun says … ‘thousands trapped in leasehold homes due to spiralling ground rent costs’
- Clive Fenton stands down as CEO of McCarthy and Stone as profits slump
- Anti-ground rent trade body ARCO snubbed at retirement housing conference … (along with us, less surprisingly)
- 10,500 leaseholders demand select committee hauls in housebuilders over rip-off ground rents
- Use your super-complaint powers to help leaseholders, Sir Ed Davey tells Which?
- Law Commission hears views on commonhold
- LKP helps raise £14,682 for park home champion Sonia McColl OBE
- Advertising Standards Authority again rejects complaint that McCarthy and Stone is passing off leasehold tenancies as ‘property ownership’
- The government wants to know if you have an onerous lease
- Tchenguiz brothers fall out among themselves, says The Times
- Please exempt retirement housebuilders from ground rent ban, pleads Sir Desmond Swayne
- Will Law Commission bring in the ‘seismic changes’ that leasehold needs?
- Floorweald and ABC Estates – an ARMA ‘good guy’ – overcharged leaseholders £27,000
- Barratt pays out to remove Grenfell cladding at Citiscape
- Complain to Advertising Standards Authority over ‘virtual freehold’ and ‘home ownership’ when the offer is leasehold tenancy
- Law Commission sets out how it hopes to create a better deal for leaseholders – and look at alternatives
- 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
- Martin Boyd should be the chair of LEASE
- LEASE chair Roger Southam resigns
- Sky told ground rent scams were ‘a bit more cash’ for beleaguered housebuilders
- Countryside Properties plc and Long Harbour to offer deal to end ground rent scam at Silver Point
- Sajid Javid tells BBC why his leasehold and lettings regulator is a good idea
- National Leasehold Campaign tells Roger Southam to resign from LEASE
- Oxford Council leaseholders have repair bills slashed from £50,000 to under £4,000
- National Trust abandons ground rent rises of up to £8,000 a year for its rural leaseholders
- Full marks to Rynew for holding awards for people who have actually helped leaseholders. Well, it’s a novelty!
- Wellcome Trust spends £114,000 on lawyers to defeat Onslow Square leaseholder in £6,000 dispute
- RTM champions Urban Owners bought by Warwick Estates
- Tribunal rules Citiscape leaseholders must pay to remove Grenfell cladding. Will this mean some lose their homes?
- Government can’t lend cash to Grenfell cladding sites until someone agrees to pay it back, says LKP
- The move to commonhold begins
- Martin Paine sells on Blythe Court, where ground rents reach £8,000 a year
- New Housing Minister hits the ground running
- 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)
- APPG to protect park home owners has as secretariat the site owners’ own trade body!
- Hilary Benn rounds on Miller Homes in Leeds constituency
- ‘Our David Wilson Homes leasehold house means we don’t own it, or the land, pay ground rent and consent fees to anonymous speculators in freeholds, often based offshore,’ Cheshire woman tells local paper
- FirstPort Retirement is allowed into ARMA
- Newcastle leasehold house owners stuff attempt by Barratt and Keepmoat to sell their freeholds
- Leaseholders face £19m to £40m Grenfell cladding bills at Galliard Homes’ New Capital Quay
- Sonia McColl appeal raises £13,000
- Fresh building is to pay £100,000 for fire marshals … with more Grenfell bills to come
- Bottomley attacks ‘uncivilised extortion’ of lease extension racket in Mortgage Solutions
- ARCO snubs McCarthy and Stone / Churchill by saying there is no need for ground rents
- National Leasehold Campaign tops 10,000 members on its first anniversary
- Court of Appeal turns down Mundy case – unanimously
- Court of Appeal ruling on Mundy case’s ‘inconvenient truth’ expected on Wednesday
- Ground rent speculator Robert Steinhouse cuts and runs from Nova House, but who pays £4m Grenfell bill?
- Cars with faults get recalled. So why not flats with Grenfell cladding?
- Dominic Raab: freeze doubling ground rents and get housebuilders to offer proper redress, says National Leasehold Campaign
- Tchenguiz / FirstPort in court to dump £2m Grenfell costs on Citiscape leaseholders – despite Sajid Javid plea
- £150m for ground rents … from a semi in Hendon
- Mundy case in Court of Appeal showdown over valuation racket
- Persimmon sold leasehold houses for £50,000 more than same-size freehold houses at Harrow View West
- Housebuilders shares crash over ground rents, with McCarthy and Stone down 10%
- Full government report on ‘Tackling unfair practices in the leasehold market’
- Leasehold houses to be banned and future ground rents set to zero, announces Sajid Javid
- Enfranchisement, commonhold and managing agent regulation are first up for the Law Commission
- Thanks LKP for raising Grenfell issues. Now we are giving yet more money to LEASE, says housing minister
- Dudley Joiner’s Team Property Management made insolvent by Quadrangle House RTM
- £2,000 sublet demand to frail pensioner needing care from freeholder Silhill Investments Limited (plus £375 to Pennycuik Collins)
- Appeal: Home for Sonia McColl OBE
- Commons debate on leasehold December 21
- Taylor Wimpey passed management at Surbiton Plaza II to commercial operator ‘to save customers the administrative burden’ (of being in charge of their own money)
- DCLG urged to inform leaseholders over Grenfell cladding bills … and stop snubbing LKP
- LKP prods media to cover theft of Sonia McColl OBE’s park home
- Park Home champion Sonia McColl OBE has her mobile home stolen … ‘after death threats’
- Barclays turns down mortgage on flat where ground rent doubles every 25 years
- Pathetic efforts by plc housebuilders to address ground rent scandal exposed on TV
- We are dissatisfied with the running of LEASE, APPG chairs tells housing minister
- Leasehold houses have been sold for more than freehold ones, reports Telegraph
- Tchenguiz’s Israeli ‘military intelligence’ operators Black Cube ‘were employed by Harvey Weinstein over sex accusations’
- Two opportunities to raise leasehold scandals in Parliament today
- MailOnline reports blighted houses of St Mary Magdalene and Holy Jesus Trust
- MP attacks ‘charity’ residential freehold owners gaming the leasehold system and cites the Mary Magdalene and Holy Jesus Trust
- LKP tells BBC that property managers can’t regulate themselves. It needs government
- Sajid Javid has thought about leasehold property management and does not like what he sees …
- Dudley Joiner and Barry Weir named in Commons … and Roger Southam invited to retire
- Pensioners tell Dudley Joiner to give them back their £27,000 sinking fund
- Labour MP Helen Hayes ‘disappointed’ by Sajid Javid’s response on leasehold scandal
- James Tuttiett: I have lost two buyers of my flat through ground rent scams. Can you hurry up changing my terms?
- Rendall and Rittner buys Braemar Estates
- Demo at First-Time Buyers show warns of developers’ leasehold rip-offs
- Responses to the government consultation
- Leasehold dystopia
- What’s the probability that government leasehold statistics are still useless?
- Ground rent speculator in leasehold homes laments losses in FT
- BBC Radio Manchester wades into the leasehold houses scandal
- Civil Justice Council says don’t ban leasehold houses
- Countdown to take part in Sajid Javid’s consultation
- LKP lunch-time Friday lecture: How we made 2.1 million homes appear
- Sector foxes warn that changing leasehold will be ‘dangerous’. But for whom?
- BetterRetirementHousing.com reports retirement resale disasters. On BBCR4 MoneyBox today
- McCarthy and Stone says ground rents essential, but why sell freeholds to murky Adriatic Land?
- MPs and LKP demand end to developers’ ‘stooge’ solicitors
- Leasehold is a feudal legacy past its time
- Why are National Trust leaseholders in uproar over ‘modern ground rents’?
- Now four in five homebuyers avoid new-builds … after ground rent scandals and shoddy build quality, that’s no surprise
- Daily Mail attacks housebuilder bosses helping themselves to “mate’s-rates homes”
- Leasehold gives rise to property values as substantial as candyfloss
- Business Insider reports how easily developers get round ‘right of first refusal’
- The creation of the National Leasehold Campaign
- Daily Mail says blue chips are cashing in on ‘rip-off ground rents’
- Countryside Properties plc deal to buy back freeholds turns spotlight on Taylor Wimpey, BBC told
- ConservativeHome website calls for radical reform of leasehold
- Guardian reports ‘breakthrough’ deal from Countryside … Pressure on Taylor Wimpey also to offer freeholds
- Leasehold sector insiders respond to a changed world …
- Pensioners hammered with 88% rise in ground rents, says Better Retirement Housing
- Neo Bankside leaseholders offered freehold for £4.8m, but have eight weeks to agree deal
- ‘Fright night’ for Taylor Wimpey as profits fall 24% over leasehold scandal, says Times
- Roger Southam silenced on LEASE website as blog is removed
- Our ground rents are fair, says McCarthy and Stone (even though they go up to £600 and are for no service whatsoever)
- Leasehold houses have at last got the scandal of ground rents into the nation’s consciousness. But this is much worse …
- The sector fights back … er, deploying LEASE chair Roger Southam
- Daily Telegraph reports the new-build leasehold houses ban
- Media storm over leasehold as government declares ban on leasehold houses and rip-off ground rents
- Signal Building leaseholders told to sell flats back to Southwark council
- Adriatic Land and other freeholders ‘acting like robbers’, Commons told
- BBC R4 You and Yours features £36,000 car crash leasehold defiance over Southwark major works scheme
- Woman signs up to doubling ground rent to extend lease on £70,000 flat. Is it now sellable at all?
- Martin Paine resigns from IRPM after leaseholder complaint
- LKP patron Sir Ed Davey returns to Parliament
- RTMF says it’s vindicated on Triplerose, but fails to mention it lost earlier case
- Now Pier Management only wants £48 sublet fee … after £120 demand on the dead
- Telegraph and Mail attack Nationwide for £54 million ground rent investments
- Countryside Properties is selling London flats at The Mount, Mill Hill, with £300pa doubling ground rents
- Jeffrey Fairburn, Persimmon CEO, drops ‘virtual freehold’ when selling leasehold
- Guardian reports leasehold is the biggest problem for ‘homeowners’
- Daily Mail turns up the heat on ‘fat cat’ housebuilder bosses
- After plc housebuilders … here comes bottom feeder Bernie
- All Party Parliamentary Group: this is how to reform leasehold
- Not the job of LEASE to warn ministers of leasehold houses scandal, Roger Southam tells BBC
- DCLG stakeholders hear of ‘calamitous’ Law Commission report on exit fees
- Motion of no confidence in Roger Southam as LEASE chair
- FirstPort fined £360,000 over fatal fire at Gibson Court
- Is this LEASE being ‘unapologetically on the side of leaseholders’, Mr Barwell?
- Housebuilder whistleblowers: please step forward
- My granny’s Audley Retirement home ‘was a money pit’ costing £48,000 in exit fees
- Daily Mail ‘reveals’ Will Astor’s ‘links to leasehold rip-offs’
- Sajid Javid does not like regulation. What about micro management like Help To Buy?
- Ground rent groups concede leasehold house owners have a right to buy freehold
- DCLG rejects second complaint about Roger Southam as LEASE chair. He was appointed on merit, it claims
- APPG on leasehold reform cancelled owing to terror attack on Westminster
- Solicitor removes ‘member of LEASE’ claim after Facebook ‘vendetta’
- Nigel Wilkins, long term campaigner for leasehold abolition, dies aged 66
- Government considers adding leasehold abuses to consumer protection law
- Oxford leaseholders win first round against £60,000 major works bills
- Southwark council leaseholders see major works bill slashed from £17,000 to £8,000
- LEASE chair Roger Southam in Private Eye (again)
- Israel Moskovitz loses epic Elim Court right to manage battle in landmark Court of Appeal decision
- Time for the tribunal to dismiss trivial objections to right to manage after Elim Case
- Will more funding for LEASE just be: Carry on minister!
- ‘Dump Roger Southam. Appoint Sebastian O’Kelly,’ National Leasehold Campaign tells housing minister
- Court of Appeal to hear Mundy case which will save millions on lease extensions
- Banker leaseholders spend £50,000 to reform the paw law
- Have lenders refused mortgages on doubling ground rent properties?
- Leaseholder activists rejected for positions on LEASE board
- DCLG rejects complaint over LEASE chair Roger Southam, who pledged to ‘maximise ground rent opportunities’ for freeholders
- Housing minister urges transparency over retirement exit fees
- Housing minister says LEASE must be on the side of leaseholders, and promises more money
- Leasehold injustices on BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire show
- The day the Leasehold Advisory Service was returned to leaseholders
- Brighton council leaseholders win refunds for major works
- Well, goodbye 2016
- End lease extension ‘injustice’, veteran MP urges Commons
- LKP poised to mine information on leasehold, after being admitted to Open Data Institute
- Ex-solicitor Ian Macfarlane jailed over £200,000 ground rent scams
- Terrys Mews right to manage fails for not knowing Peverel OM is now FirstPort
- 99% of FirstPort’s 3,800 service charge accounts are up to date
- Right to manage champion Urban Owners joins LKP
- Guardian reports the Blythe Court ground rent scandal
- Do you REALLY know what your managing agent is charging you?
- Private Eye reports challenge to ‘scandal’ of lease extension values
- The Times: ‘Exit fees and poor resale values: the uncomfortable truth about retirement homes’
- Oxford council leaseholders each facing £50,000 bills head for the courts
- Land Registry sell-off is shelved (for the moment)
- LKP meeting with housing minister Gavin Barwell
- All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and commonhold established today
- Sir Roger’s quest for the Holy Grail … (or any other metaphor that helps his cosy leasehold world remain the same)
- Five right to buy scams that are tricking taxpayers out of millions
- ‘Scandalous’ that Duke of Westminster’s wealth comes from leasehold, claims campaigner
- Are half the right to buyers in housing minister’s Croydon constituency on housing benefit?
- Tower Hamlets Homes spends thousands to thwart recognised tenants’ association
- Mail on Sunday urges right to manage or buy the freehold
- Carlisle flat owners are living in the wrong flats
- Barge and pole: The £10,000 ‘bargain’ house with £300pa ground rents and 15% exit fees (and £450pa to the council to improve the area)
- The dirty tricks played with formal lease extensions
- Leasehold is a feudal, wasting asset with opportunities for exploitation, says the Financial Times in a devastating article
- LKP welcomes privatisation of the Leasehold Advisory Service, but why wait until 2020?
- Pensioners ‘turn to old Peverel politburo at Freemont Property Managers for right to manage’
- Law Commission: ‘We want to hear about problems in leasehold law’
- Southam sells Chainbow to Savills, so who owns the embedded management companies now?
- Property tribunal upholds lease extension ‘scandal’ that pays millions to freeholders
- 57% of leaseholders regret buying their property, says LEASE
- Galliard introduces ‘exit if we Brexit’ clause to homebuyers … but what about exit when you finally see the lease?
- LKP meets Roger Southam and Taylor Wimpey over embedded management companies
- Martin Paine, embedded management companies, LKP … all raised in Queen’s speech debate
- Southam surrenders control of Mulberry Mews
- Just why is Roger Southam bothering with the Leasehold Advisory Service?
- Taylor Wimpey leaseholders ask: if the management company is ours, how do we oust Roger Southam?
- BBC features 50 Oxford City Council leaseholders facing £50,000 major works bill
- Don’t sell off the Land Registry
- Queen Court RTM halts central London basement conversion
- 20 MPs and Lords sign up for All-Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and commonhold
- Housing and Care 21: We’ve made a mess at Ashfield, so manage the site yourselves
- LKP suggestions prompt amendments to Housing Bill
- Spot the difference: questions to LEASE, questions to LKP
- Average service charges are £1,863, but rise to £2,777 for new builds
- Leaseholders need ‘counselling and relationship advice’, says LEASE chair Dr Sigmund Southam
- Dig out your own leasehold flat
- A gift from Tchenguiz is one to decline
- Enfield council’s Town Road leaseholders hit for £25,000 bills
- LKP property management start-up grows from 120 to 850 flats in nine months
- Uproar in Oxford as 50 council leaseholders face bills of £50,000 each
- LEASE: we need to make a million pounds a year by 2020
- 80% of Londoners like living in a flat, even ones run by FirstPort
- LEASE: don’t do anything about Triplerose and multi-block RTM
- LEASE uses debt-collecting Brady Solicitors for leaseholder survey
- Southwark: hand over £50,000 … or it may just be £15,000 in 30 months’ time
- LKP is DELUGED by leaseholders caught out in local authority major works schemes …
- It’s unfair, say Chelsea Harbour leaseholders lumbered with £300,000 legal costs after neighbours fail at tribunal
- Second LKP patron knighted: Arise Sir Ed Davey!
- Boughton Hall’s £950,000 freehold for sale and it pays out 22% a year …
- Newcastle City Council reneges on allowing residents to choose management
- LEASE under pressure to raise cash through paid-for services
- RTM facilitators issue 2 year ‘honeymoon’ contracts with favoured managing agents … without consulting ALL leaseholders
- Come on, Shelter! Don’t demand more housing without addressing leasehold’s many, many defects …
- Right to manage promoter calls it a day at Quadrangle House
- Packed LKP meeting at Westminster for leasehold reform
- Rylands Associates uses LKP logo, but we have never heard of them
- Event fees: Law Commissioner Stephen Lewis wants to hear from you
- Metcalfe Court: how a retirement site has benefited from RTM
- LKP submission to Housing Bill
- Local authority leasehold on BBC’s You and Yours
- Important AgeUK event – exit fees
- Legal Costs – Part II
- Leasehold Costs
- LKP behind the scenes
- New partnership JFM Management joins LKP
- MPs told of the murky world of leasehold service charge accounts … by an accountant
- Law Commissioner Stephen Lewis says LKP is right to expose ‘cowboys’
- Leasehold snagging issues
- Solicitor replies to LKP reader’s query over freehold purchase in block of two flats
- LKP is now a registered charity
- Dudley Joiner: Not relevant that I was disqualified from being a company director for 7 years
- FirstPort backs down over demanding £10,808 from leaseholder … and she is not staying silent either
- Outrageous: Persimmon builds leasehold houses – for the never ending income stream
- George Osborne’s childhood nanny facing £115,000 bill to council
- Bottomley tells BBC he will fight on for leaseholders
- LKP thanks its patron Ed Davey, who lost his seat in the election
- Freehold sale withdrawn at Discovery Docklands East – once the residents were all set to buy
- We save money living at Woodchester Valley Village … but then we do all own it ourselves
- Pier Management issues £120 sublet demand on the dead
- Three MPs worth voting for if you are a leaseholder
- Should you buy a leasehold retirement flat, asks Telegraph
- Whistleblowers to Serious Fraud Office ‘wasting their time’
- Right to manage in chaos after Court of Appeal decision
- Recognised tenants’ associations should be easier to form
- Leasehold mediation from commercial operators backed by government
- Government to ‘take forward’ CMA leasehold report, but rejects making right to manage easier
- Freeholders must not get away with ‘abusing’ leaseholders, says Bottomley in Budget debate
- Peverel / FirstPort pays back £39,377 wrongly taken from Hillside Court, but the pensioners say another £3,498 is missing
- Tchenguiz’s compo claim ‘liberally interspersed with assertions of fraud, falsity, dishonesty …’, says judge
- No.1 Deansgate wins epic RTM battle, as freeholder throws in the towel at the Court of Appeal
- Watch out! There’s a lease running out
- Re-energised LEASE holds annual conference
- Janet Entwistle stands down at Peverel …
- Leaseholders’ money ‘safe’ from £1.3 million fraudster at Hurford Salvi Carr
- Packed Westminster meeting for leasehold reform
- LKP at Number 10
- Roger Southam should not be LEASE chair, leaseholder tells housing minister
- London LEASE conference on February 4
- Interview with LEASE chairman Roger Southam
- LEASE is recruiting … But why the pandering to the sector’s commercial interests?
- LKP urges minister to include leaseholders in Flood Re insurance plan
- Roger Southam takes over as LEASE chair
- Leaseholder Association: One hat too many for Dudley Joiner?
- Quadrangle House residents seek to regain control of their RTM
- CMA: easier right to manage, re-tendering property management when residents choose, changes to major works rules … but no statutory regulation of block managers
- No change over Cirrus retirement scam, says Entwistle, although Peverel leaves an open goal for compo claims
- LKP election manifesto … as minister thanks LKP for official leasehold figure of 4.1 million private properties
- LKP managing agent Jones Associates wins right to manage for retirement site
- Phillips v Francis decision
- Only one director of Quadrangle House RTM … and he is the property manager
- Phillips v Francis … Pity the poor park home owners
- Now LEASE survival is at stake … it wants to meet the ‘stakeholders’
- There she blows! Peverel’s Janet Entwistle is sailing for FirstPort. But is Capt’n Barbossa still on board?
- LEASE should not pitch callers into ALEP’s ‘den of cheque books’
- Law Commission likely to end the exit and sublet fee payola
- After only a week, FirstPort (formerly Peverel) makes a debut in the Eye
- LKP submission to CMA leasehold inquiry
- Competition and Markets Authority relies on skimpy MORI poll of 1,050 for its report on leasehold management
- LKP’s Block Managers Limited stops leaseholders from paying to redecorate £1m flat
- Peverel rebrand: something to be flogged off?
- Any port in a storm as Peverel desperately rebrands to … FirstPort
- Ex-Peverel politburo set up Freemont Property Management
- Janet Entwistle says no current Peverel staff ‘linked’ to Cirrus scam
- You cannot be Cirrus, says Private Eye
- AgeUK echoes Campaign against Residential Leasehold Exploitation in demanding retirement housing reform
- Peverel Cirrus price-fixing stooge says sorry …
- Ripped-off pensioners, betrayed Campaign against Residential Leasehold Exploitation whistleblowers, four-year tokenistic OFT inquiry, cost: £500,000, craven trade bodies, Cirrus unpunished, stooges go into ‘liquidation’ … one minnow fined £1,777
- OFT price-fixing cheat Glyn Jackson is back at Peverel sites
- Florrie’s Law won’t help me with £43,000 demand from Haringey council
- Holcroft Court chased for fees worth less than £40
- DCLG leasehold team issues raft of improvements
- Florrie’s Law means new £15,000 cap on repair bills for council leasehold owners
- Leasehold sector is 63% larger than everyone thought, says DCLG – accepting LKP figures
- Competition and Markets Authority issues update on leasehold study
- SFO scroungers: Phillippa Williamson, Christian Bailes and Richard Alderman
- Serious Farce Office messes up again, with £6m so far to Vincent
- Will hedge-funders clean up in £500 million McCarthy and Stone float?
- Freeholder Sean Powell has major works demand slashed by £600,000
- Independent reports Bottomley’s questions to Tchenguiz
- Tchenguiz PR man detonates Bottomley eruption during Queen’s Speech debate
- AgeUK would not get involved, Shelter has quit, Peverel has been expelled and Esther Rantzen is asking questions … the fiasco of the Campaign for Housing in Later Life
- Jailed Bryanston Court fraudster Brian Copsey exposed by £1.8m bounced cheque
Category: Leasehold Valuation Tribunal
- All change for Leasehold Valuation Tribunals on July 1
- Feuding Chelsea leasehold owners find a court-appointed managing agent makes all decisions
- Informed leasehold owners increase Leasehold Valuation Tribunal actions by 165 per cent
- Supreme Court ruling on Daejan v Benson gives freeholders the whip-hand and is ‘a judgment that tenants might consider disappointing’
- Dennis Jackson and Plantation Wharf: Did it have to end like this?
- Answer to a parliamentary question about Leasehold Valuation Tribunals … 189 irrelevant documents
- Pay first, argue later: Plantation Wharf shows how LVT’s £500 limit on legal costs can be bypassed
- Exclusive report: A look at the new rules for the LVT
- How semi-formal LVTs have become “legal torture” for leaseholders
- How to handle your leasehold ‘right to manage’ – by a leading managing agent
- Grant Shapps and Siobhan McGrath face TV cameras today
- Solicitors squabble in High Court, while leaseholders face a £30,000 right to manage legal bill
- Informed leaseholders increase LVT actions by 165 per cent
- Wartime squadron leader, aged 94, chalks up £11,500 victory over Peverel
- £30,000 bill for RTM ‘fiasco’
- Stop this ‘legal torture’ of pensioners, says MP
- Dud paperwork, no payment necessary
- Wolverhampton flood leasehold victims win £16,000 at LVT …
- LVT: the things they never tell you
- Zthank ‘eavan, Paul Chevalier has been given the push from Zenith Building, Leicester
Category: Louie Burns
- Leasehold Roadshow heads for Leeds on February 27
Category: Martin Paine
- Spreading Paine: the freeholds owned by Martin Paine and his wife (Margaret) Anne Kirmond
- Martin Paine demanded ground rents of thousands from two London leaseholders
- Hogan Lovells property solicitors report Blythe Court scandal on website
- BBC R4’s You & Yours feature Blythe Court … and now the freeholder wants ‘more ethical approach to charges’
- Barnard Marcus withdraws Blythe Court flat from auction
- Stop auction of ‘worthless’ flat at Blythe Court and alert authorities, Commons asked
- Affluent freehold-owning couple’s lease terms bring ruin to families who bought flats that are virtually worthless
Category: Michael Epstein
- The Survey On Leasehold? Get On With It!
- Is this what you intended, William the Conqueror?
- Will Sanity Return To The Housing Market?
- No turning back … summer of 2017
Category: National Leasehold Campaign
- Leaseholders to demonstrate in Westminster on July 18
- NATIONAL LEASEHOLD CAMPAIGN (NLC) WILL HOLD A MINUTES SILENCE IN HONOUR OF THE VICTIMS OF THE GRENFELL TRAGEDY.
Category: News
- The Liberals (no, not those ones) register ‘severe dissatisfaction’ with Tory record on leasehold
- 48 hours to go: LKP advice on responding to the Law Commission consultation on commonhold
- Recognised Tenants’ Association review – Part I
- Recognised Tenants’ Association review – Part II
- Recognised Tenants’ Association review – Part III
- From Tokyo, leaseholder wins back £100 ground rent at Maltings Court
- Baroness Gardner raises RTM in the Lords
- Red Rock saves 156 leaseholders from £187,200 repair bill
- Israeli magazine reports London leasehold
- Will insurers leave flooded leaseholders in the soup?
- Engage Liverpool to hold public meeting with CMA
- Mail on Sunday today: Leasehold is becoming an election issue
- Survey on leasehold flood insurance
- Solicitors email at 7.41pm the evening before tribunal: Did you get our letter threatening you with libel proceedings?
- Thanks to LKP I saved £120 on Tchenguiz subletting fee
- Daily Mail reports OFT inquiry into leasehold management
- Imperial Hall beats off £12,366 claim from Sterling Estates Management
- Tchenguiz backs down over £5,000 demand for … a conservatory built 25 years ago
- Times reports inquiry into dodgy freeholders
- Commons told of LKP leasehold figures
- Bottomley questions Tchenguiz leasehold interests in the Commons
- Peverel-Cirrus tee-hee email: Cheating oldies is ‘not an official part of the process (tee hee)’
- Campaign against Residential Leasehold Exploitation whistleblowers were THREATENED with prosecution if they went public over OFT’s toothless £500k investigation into Peverel-Cirrus
- Homeowner in Kingston gets £6,000 leasehold insurance premium, with an £10,000 excess if he is flooded
- Burj Khalifa: Pay the service charges, or we will switch off the lifts
- Tchenguiz backs down over demanding £5,000 from couple … for a conservatory built more than 20 years ago!
- Tchenguiz Family Trust seeks £5,000 for conservatory ‘built 25 years ago’ … and Peverel will not permit their house manager to confirm when it was built
- Number of leasehold homes is DOUBLE the figure the government believes, says the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership
- FT quotes LKP’s leasehold figures in flooding report
- Palgrave Gardens gives Peverel its marching orders
- Leasehold Bill from ALEP receives a few home truths in the Lords
- Help! Our freeholder at Welland Quarter is in administration …
- Collapsed ceilings and dripping walls at prime Timber Wharf in Manchester
- Daily Express reports Leasehold Knowledge Partnership involvement in Flood Re
- Leasehold activist features in Independent
- Commons today repeats LKP figures on number of leasehold owners
- LKP reported in Insurance Times over flood figures
- OFT’s ‘leniency’ deal saved Peverel / Cirrus £4m in fines, says The Oldie
- Leasehold owners excluded from government’s flood insurance plan, Flood Re
- OFT told: You’ve had the facts on leasehold for years. Just get on with it!
- Cut out the nonsense and pay up for Peverel cheating! Cabinet minister tells Entwistle
- Baroness Gardner raises issue of leasehold tribunal legal costs in Lords …
- The lost £1 million inheritance at Kensington Hall Gardens
- The Independent covers leasehold scandals
- Little warmth in this masonic handshake as Peverel website removes news of winning a new block
- LKP site is being maintained and having a re-design
- Second Christmas of misery for ‘squirrels in the roof’ leasehold owners
- Guardian covers more fall out from Peverel’s price-fixing scam with Cirrus Communications
- Janet Entwistle to Bottomley: £100,000 ‘goodwill’ payment over Cirrus scam stays and she welcomes meeting with MPs and the Campaign against Residential Leasehold Exploitation
- National Business Awards will not remove an award to Cirrus Communications in 2009 – even though 15% was for ethics!
- Guardian report pours scorn on OFT price-fixing investigation – and Peverel’s contemptible £100,000 ‘goodwill’ offer
- Guardian examines the Peverel / Cirrus price-fixing scandal tomorrow
- Three MPs tell Entwistle to pay up more over Peverel / Cirrus scandal, or accept binding mediation
- Peverel cheated pensioners in £1.4 million tenders at 65 sites, says OFT
- LKP gets full investigation into leasehold management by the Office of Fair Trading
- OFT will report on the Peverel / Cirrus price-fixing scandal on Friday
- MPs back Leasehold Knowledge Partnership call to reform residents’ associations – drawn up by the man who won back £500,000 off Tchenguiz / Peverel
- Freehold Managers demands £210 to sublet, with an extra £120 for each new tenancy …
- It’s £850 for subletting … er, alright, I will take £100, says boss of Hallmark Developments
- Who are the good lawyers in leasehold?
- Our freeholder calls us leasehold owners “a bunch of animals”
- Leasehold owners of flats worth £60,000 are hit with £1 million refurb bill after freehold is scooped up in auction
- Just how much can a freeholder charge in a leasehold flat sale?
- New housing minister Kris Hopkins isn’t a full minister …
- We have paid up for repairs to the lead water mains that doesn’t happen. We are so fed up, we are selling
- Local authority is charging £20 and £75 subletting fees (pay up and count yourself lucky, says Leasehold Knowledge Partnership)
- Sacking of Mark Prisk is bad news for leasehold owners
- Private Eye reports Peverel price-fixing scandal
- Pensioners trapped by broken lift in Peverel block make BBC news … and it has happened FOUR times before in the past TWO years!
- Peverel loses 2,376 prime London units
- AgeUK removes its logos from the Peverel Retirement website
- Prostitutes breach leasehold covenants concerning ‘persons of immoral life’
- The Oldie reports Peverel / Cirrus price-fixing scandal
- Challenge to £100 leasehold subletting demand reveals nothing at all is owed
- Do we have to replace our boilers for a £20,000 ‘repair to a modern standard’?
- Oldies should sell up and boost retirement housing, says Demos (in report paid for by developers)
- Guardian reports Leasehold Knowledge Partnership
- Davey and Bottomley quiz OFT over its leniency deal with Peverel over the Cirrus price-fixing scam
- MPs demand ‘justice and recompense’ for victims of Peverel’s price-fixing scams …
- Campaign against Residential Leasehold Exploitation meets lawyers over Peverel price-fixing scandal
- Bottomley: ‘possible criminal behaviour involving Peverel’ over tendering scams
- Fury as OFT may give Peverel immunity over Cirrus price-fixing scandal
- Tchenguiz gets a reprieve from Lloyds Bank
- Tchenguiz speaks and he is going to ‘butcher’ his enemies
- Video exposes the full horrors of leasehold
- LKP: Start as we mean to go on …
- Tchenguiz: is this the end?
- Lord Neuberger: what have you done, as Daejan is cited in property tribunals
- Squirrels in roofs cause fires, so why is nothing being done, ask couple in Peverel block
- Imperial Hall fights back … booting out Sterling Estates Management and the freeholder
- Prisk sets up mobile home advice line at LEASE
- Hopeless case on course to RTM …
- ‘Guesstimate’ £50,000 new roof blamed for death of leasehold owner aged 93
- Can anyone help this leasehold section 11 question?
- AgeUK to wind down retirement leasehold service
- Wideboy freeholder cuts £4,000 demand for leasehold flat refurb to £2,000
- Small-scale builder left high and dry after Tchenguiz / Peverel meltdown
- The woman who tracked down 133 leasehold neighbours, organised an RTM and is now buying the freehold
- Many congratulations today to Mayor Bob!
- Is Peverel gearing up for another sale?
- Yet again! This time Adderstone told to stop loading sub-letting fees
- Ombudsmen will help minor issues but are a ‘million miles’ from dealing with the complex legal acrimony in leasehold, says leading managing agent
- Ex-Israeli intelligence operatives settle dispute with Tchenguiz
- Winter of misery ends for couple in leasehold flat, thanks to LKP
- ‘Secret ombudsman schemes are so much better for leasehold than licensing managing agents,’ says DCLG
- Troy Court £912 leasehold sub-letting fee cut by £400 thanks to LKP (with more to come?)
- Lords amendment sneaks regulation of leasehold managing agents into the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill
- Tchenguiz falls out with his ex-Israeli intelligence operatives … and now they are suing each other
- £912 sub-letting fee demanded at Kensington’s Troy Court – after prostitutes moved in
- LKP visitors top 23,000 a month
- One in the Eye from LKP
- Dead squirrels in the roof and rivulets of water down the walls … couple feel let down by Peverel
- Will a new spin doctor on £90,000 with ‘personal integrity’ work wonders for Peverel?
- LKP wins Best Online Editorial at LSL Property Press Awards 2013
- Daejan v Benson: ‘on the whole good for landlords’
- Epic leasehold battle ends with victory of freeholder in the Supreme Court
- Lee Middleburgh quits Peverel ‘to pursue new opportunities’
- Why does it take 60% of leasehold residents to create a tenants’ association – and only 30% of his constituency to elect Housing Minister Mark Prisk?
- Chairman of leasehold RMC accused of stealing £1 million
- Minister holds roundtable talks on leasehold
- Sorry leasehold right to manage is ‘somewhat daunting’ says junior minister … but I’m not going to do a thing about it
- Observer newspaper features Leasehold Knowledge Partnership – and warns of problems with joint freehold owners
- Leasehold Knowledge welcomes Red Rock Property Management
- Islington leasehold dispute costs £300,000 in overcharging
- Only 4,365 leasehold ‘right to manage’ companies since 2003, claims academic
- Mainstay loses prime Norwich site to right to manage
- LKP and Campaign against Residential Leasehold Exploitation websites top 100,000 page views in November
- Metro Central Heights wins largest ever right to manage action
- John Bercow buys £935,000 pad in Plantation Wharf – after embittered seller despairs of living there
- Housing Minister Mark Prisk holds meeting with LKP – but keep pestering MPs!
- Battersea MP told to stay out of Plantation Wharf dispute
- Baroness Gardner urges government to back commonhold
- Plantation Wharf residents demand extraordinary general meeting to stop pensioner losing his home
- Marathon House celebrates its ‘first’ LVT victory – £425 of legal costs
- LKP / Campaign against Residential Leasehold Exploitation leasehold websites top 70,000 page views a month
- Sacked leasehold managing agent tries to silence critics
- Full LKP / Campaign against Residential Leasehold Exploitation briefing notes on leasehold for MPs
- Bottomley demands meeting over leasehold with Housing Minister Mark Prisk after LKP / Campaign against Retirement Leasehold Exploitation conference
- Speakers at next week’s MPs meeting on leasehold
- After £11,500 Peverel victory, Strand Court dumps second managing agent
- LKP organise leasehold briefing at the Houses of Parliament
- Managing agent asked to explain his ethics …
- McCarthy and Stone replies to Dispatches exposé
- Devastating exposé of McCarthy & Stone on TV
- Having fraudster Simon van Houten manage our flats cost us £100,000
- Any idea why this lot paid for Grant Shapps’ office?
- Undercover pensioner ‘spy’ to lift the lid on retirement leasehold 8pm tonight
- Now Daily Mail looks into Shapps’ colourful business life
- Channel Four documentary on retirement leasehold on September 24
- Mechanised plagiarism and psycho-babble manuals are Grant Shapps’ little earner outside politics
- Grant Shapps cuts Wikipedia references to property tycoons’ donations to his private office
- Leaseholders should beware cheapo managing agents
- OFT announcement on exit fees not as ‘substantive’ as we all hoped … oh, and the timing has ‘slipped’
- Rendall and Rittner ‘confident’ to prevent another Simon Van Houten fraudster
- Dispatches reveals the cheating that lies at the heart of leasehold
- The Guardian takes up issue of leasehold
- CentreForum think tank urges £2 per flat owner to regulate leasehold
- ‘Some of the worst spivs in property are in leasehold,’ LKP tells The Times
- FT also carries report on leasehold today
- Radio Four Today programme highlights leaseholder “rip-offs”
- Countdown to a media storm over leasehold
- Property Nightmare: The Truth About Leaseholds on Channel Four August 20 at 8pm
- Oh, and why does Shapps want to regulate park homes and not leasehold, even though the issues are so similar?
- Green MP wades in to help leaseholders facing £30,000 legal bills
- Grant Thornton had ‘direct interest’ in the Tchenguiz arrests, which should have been revealed
- Sub-letting leasehold flats should be around £40, LVT rules quoting precedent
- Leaseholders’ meeting in Worthing this evening (July 25)
- Van Houten abused trust of clients and colleagues, says Rendall and Rittner
- Sort out LVTs and keep on exposing leasehold ‘legal torture’, Sir Peter Bottomley tells the Commons
- HML group with 33,500 units under management joins LKP
- Head of Peverel Retirement quits
- Cameron wades into retirement row in his own backyard … but what about those who don’t live in his constituency?
- Free leaseholders’ conference in Worthing on July 25
- Janet Entwistle: ‘Problems with Peverel’s reputation, but we are in it for the long term’
- Executive guilty of plundering £122,000 from managing agents Rendall and Rittner
- TV documentary on retirement industry needs help
- Sub-letting: LKP trials a simple scheme that benefits all
- St George’s under new management
- Peverel: a lot of resigning
- Premier joins as LKP tops 20,000 site visits
- Redrow boss Steve Morgan talks to LKP
- Meeting with Bruton Street Management
- Baroness Hanham and Rupert Murdoch: spot the difference
- BBC’s ‘Don’t get done, get Dom’
- Lonely Shapps: the only one who doesn’t think there is a need for leasehold regulation
- ‘Not everything about Peverel was wonderful,’ says Janet Entwistle
- Seeking stars in the east
- Rich should buy freeholds and cream commissions, says Sunday Times
- LKP prompts Lords debate
- Exit fees: Not fair and I’m not paying
- January news archive
- Tchenguiz freeholds for sale
- Category: AlexEllisonComment
  - Why does Peverel own these flats?
- Category: ARHM
  - Retirement sector thought it would prompt leasehold reform, but leasehold houses and double ground rents were even worse …
  - Sebastian O’Kelly addresses retirement property managers. Were you lynched? No, they agreed: leasehold ‘granny flats’ have no future
  - Retirement housebuilder hands £7m of freeholds to the leaseholders
  - ARMA to rule on admitting scandal-hit FirstPort Retirement
  - ARMA ends four-month farce after finally saying who its members are …
  - AgeUK’s damning verdict on leasehold in CMA study
  - ARHM’s pathetic response to the Peverel / Cirrus scandal
  - Nine months in the making: ARHM rules on Peverel / Cirrus scandal
  - ARHM rejects daughter’s complaint that Peverel pushed Mere Court pensioners into agreeing house manager’s flat sale …
  - Bob Bessell: Expelled from ARHM, but this is how leaseholders should be empowered
  - Devon pensioners humiliate Y and Y Management and Avon Freeholds at tribunal
  - Cirrus isn’t an ARMA member so we have nothing to say about the price-fixing scandal, says Michelle Banks
  - Esther Rantzen speaks at ARHM
  - ARHM president Baroness Greengross says sorry to pensioner for ‘barrack-room lawyer’ jibe
  - ‘You are all barrack-room lawyers with too much time on your hands,’ ARHM president tells complaining pensioners
  - Lords debate leasehold reform
- Category: ARMA
  - ARMA: prepare for a regulated leasehold management world
  - ARMA pleads to be on Lord Best’s regulatory working group. It should be. And so should LKP …
  - Leaseholders are apathetic, apart from the Dad’s Army figures running RTMs and RMCs, says the sector
  - RICS fines Warwick Estates £20,000 over lift shaft fatality – after ARMA ‘blocked its regulator from hearing the case’
  - Grenfell cladding crisis prompts the question: what are freeholders actually for?
  - Fractures in ARMA’s efforts to regulate the leasehold property management sector
  - Telegraph reports rip-off leasehold sales packs
  - DCLG shakes up leasehold team … but what about Southam, LEASE and the Mundy case, asks Bottomley
  - Companies like ARMA member SDL Bigwood are ripping off homeowners in private estates, Parliament is told
  - The Property Ombudsman fines agent for selling house as ‘virtually freehold’. (Don’t worry ARMA members: it was only £200)
  - More farce than Blackadder’s court martial: ARMA claims its regulator ‘retired’
  - ARMA regulator Sally Keeble outlines five areas where statutory regulation is needed in leasehold
  - ARMA regulator Sally Keeble quit ‘after being blocked’ from ruling on Warwick Estates lift shaft fatality
  - ARMA’s self-regulation in disarray after member sues the organisation and Sally Keeble resigns
  - Philip Rainey QC: Reform of the law is a duty (and for landlord and tenant law it is overdue)
  - ARMA conference ‘worried’ that developers are exploiting new home owners
  - Former Labour minister Sally Keeble is new ARMA regulator
  - Commonhold or leasehold, it still needs managing
  - ARMA regulator’s sanctions against FirstPort ‘did not address seriousness of what took place’
  - ARMA rules against FirstPort Retirement …
  - LKP analysis of the LEASE/Brady solicitors leaseholder survey 2016
  - The ARMA managing agent’s annual conference
  - BBC told Charity Commission should stop dawdling over recognition of LKP
  - Michelle Banks steps down at ARMA
  - Stop keep asking who our members are, ARMA tells pensioner
  - ARMA-Q doesn’t mean property managers are more honest, says leasehold activist
  - 20% of ARMA members ‘walk out over new ethical scheme’
  - Now we are told Countrywide is STILL an ARMA member … well, until February 1
  - Countrywide Estate Management is OUT of ARMA
  - ARMA membership … Find out on Twitter!
  - Peverel Retirement up before the ARMA regulator before it can join ARMA-Q
  - ARMA-Q members to be revealed next month
  - Countrywide ‘ripping off’ leaseholders, MP tells Commons. And it is given the boot by Bovis Homes
  - Cooee! Peverel becomes FirstPort and heading for ARMA-Q … But will it be welcome?
  - If Peverel Retirement is admitted to ARMA-Q, what message does that send thousands of cheated pensioners?
  - Feeble talk from CMA at ARMA conference
  - Leasehold left out of government Flood Re insurance scheme
  - ARMA tells Y and Y Management to mind its manners and control its temper
  - Peverel given clean bill of health by ARMA – just as it admitted Cirrus was cheating pensioners with bogus tenders
  - Pravda alive and well at LEASE, ARMA and Peverel … who ALL support the OFT inquiry into leasehold fiddling
  - Michelle Banks: silent over abuses, but ‘ARMA-Q will be good for leaseholders’
  - ARMA-Q reformers get strong backing at annual conference
  - What does LKP think of ARMA reforms, we were asked. As the annual conference begins in London today, here we go …
  - ARMA-Q solves ARMA’s problems, not those of leasehold
  - Stuff a leaseholder and win an iPad! The unpromising debut of ARMA-Q
  - ARMA and the myth of self regulation
  - ARMA-Q: a qualified welcome, but it is not a new dawn
  - ARMA-Q must expose managing agents’ ‘financial interests’
  - First task for ARMA’s ethical panel: examine ARMA itself
  - Bungs ‘r’ Us: £250,000 ‘incentive payments’ offered to managing agents
  - Oop! No surprise why this word is causing ARMA difficulty
  - Government receives a full and frank message from LKP
  - Ombudsman for Peverel
  - ARMA chief’s job description
- Category: ARMA-Q
  - House of Lords launch for ARMA-Q on May 15
  - Stuff the leaseholders and win an iPad – from one of the sponsors of ARMA-Q
  - ARMA-Q: an ethical facelift for a flawed trade body
  - Why we resigned from ARMA, by LKP managing agent
- Category: Bellway
  - The Sun attacks ‘fatcat’ housebuilders with inflated fortunes thanks to Help To Buy
  - Who are Dublin-based Boardwalk Finance DAC and Jetty Finance DAC? Why do they own freeholds to people’s homes? And why are they based abroad?
  - Ripped-off leaseholders bring protest to central Manchester
  - Bellway Homes attempts to explain why leasehold houses are just fine. And it is self-interested rubbish …
  - Bellway is second developer to face public protest over leasehold cheating
  - The Sun demands end to ground-rent rip-offs
  - ‘Cameron’s brother-in-law Will Astor and the toxic leasehold scandal’, Daily Mail
  - Bellway fears backlash over leasehold houses may eat into profits
  - Here we go … Bellway porkies to talk up leasehold
  - Justin Madders MP tells Chester Chronicle leasehold is ‘the PPI of housing sector’
  - Dear Ted Ayres … your company Bellway sold our family’s future
  - Bellway sells Baltic Avenue freehold to Adriatic Land 6 as leaseholders mobilise
  - LKP tells Sunday Times reader not to buy leasehold house (and there is no excuse for them)
  - Now Daily Telegraph wades into the leasehold house racket
  - Cramlington: The wet dream of housebuilders, where everything is sold leasehold
  - Bellway offers young mother freehold for £3,750. But Adriatic Land demands £12,750 … then agrees to half the sum
  - Justin ‘Madders than hell’ about Taylor Wimpey / Bellway / Redrow ground rent scams in leasehold houses
  - Ground rent scam ‘creates new asset class,’ says Ruth Cadbury
  - Taylor Wimpey CEO to meet MPs over ‘cancer’ of doubling ground rents (which were deterring astute buyers in 2007!)
  - Guardian sticks with new-build ground rent scandal, while LKP advises Persimmon home buyers to walk away
  - Leasehold ‘a lucrative way to stop people from buying their own home outright’ – Daily Mail
- Category: Benjamin Mire
  - Case against Benjamin Mire collapses, as RICS disciplinary process descends into shambles
  - Trust Property Management up before RICS disciplinary panel
  - RICS exonerates Benjamin Mire in shock ruling
  - RICS sets aside two-day disciplinary hearing for Benjamin Mire
  - Trust Property Management fails to find a buyer
  - Benjamin Mire fails to block RICS disciplinary investigation in the high court
  - Benjamin Mire’s Trust Property Management up for sale
  - Judge Siobhan McGrath apologises over Mire debacle
  - [Eight] Ten days after talking tough, LEASE seems to have dropped ‘Mire for hire’
  - LEASE dumps Benjamin Mire … after eight months of dithering!
  - Kris Hopkins says Benjamin Mire’s promotion by LEASE does not ‘constitute a recommendation’
  - LEASE: Benjamin Mire’s advertising stays, but new terms and conditions are issued
  - Quango-crat Deep Sagar told: sack ‘disgraced and disgraceful’ Benjamin Mire or sack yourself!
  - We WILL take money from Benjamin Mire, says Leasehold Advisory Service
  - LEASE chairman Deep Sagar to rule on Benjamin Mire advertising in its professional directory
  - Benjamin Mire has been in front of tribunal 52 times since 1999
  - Leasehold Advisory Service to Bottomley: two more weeks to investigate Benjamin Mire
  - Today’s BBC Five Live interview with Eric Pickles and Leasehold Knowledge Partnership …
  - Freeholder’s barrister Justin Bates named in Parliament yesterday. And Benjamin Mire. And Tchenguiz. And Yianis. And Israel Moskovitz …
  - Stop taking money from Benjamin Mire, Bottomley tells Leasehold Advisory Service
  - Judge Tim Powell explains First-Tier Tribunal … but leaseholders are not happy that justice is being done
  - Managing agent Benjamin Mire WAS to have been sacked from his judicial appointment … BUT his company is still up for a string of insiders’ property awards!
  - Sir Peter Bottomley condemns criminal behaviour, price-fixing, cheating freeholders, exit fee fiddles, opportunist lawyers and feeble judicial intervention
  - Parliamentary Questions over Benjamin Mire case
  - Benjamin Mire ‘resigns’ from property tribunal panel after complaints
  - RICS rejects complaint against managing agent Benjamin Mire
  - Furious LVT victor complains that managing agent also sits on the tribunal panel
- Category: Brixton Hill Court
  - Residents say: ‘Don’t give up. You can and will win’
  - Brixton Hill Court wins right to manage after first effort cost £25,000
  - ‘There is no sight more venal than that of someone making money out of other people’s misery’ – Angela Saul
  - Brixton Hill Court battles on for RTM after demand for £42,000 costs is cut to £18,000
- Category: Canary Riverside
  - Battle for Canary Riverside resumes after court appointed manager steps down
  - War of attrition continues between Canary Riverside freeholder John Christodoulou and the court-appointed manager …
  - LKP and Bottomley at Number 10 to reverse flawed reform of recognised tenants’ associations
  - Is Law Commission wobbly over 25% commercial exclusion to collective enfranchisement? (Let’s hope so)
  - Canary Riverside’s lawyers at Trowers & Hamlins in ‘ill-conceived’ bid to thwart Parliamentary debate
  - Affluent London leaseholders are just as likely to be kicked around as poor ones, finds the Sunday Times
  - Billionaire John Christodoulou and his lawyer David Marsden accused of ‘little short of harassment’ of court-appointed managing agent
  - Legal arms race as Canary Riverside freeholder seeks judicial review
  - Canary Riverside freeholder told to co-operate with court appointed managing agent
  - John Christodoulou minions get the boot at Canary Riverside
  - West India Quay’s victory against £74,560 legal onslaught … for a recognised residents’ association
  - West India Quay defeats £74,560 legal onslaught …
- Category: Charter Quay
  - What if Berkeley had built Charter Quay as commonhold? Site visit by officials and Law Commission
  - Charter Quay in Daily Mail
  - Guardian reports Charter Quay ‘day of freedom’
  - Cabinet minister celebrates Charter Quay ‘independence day’ as it breaks free from ‘monstrous companies’: Tchenguiz and Peverel
  - Charter Quay: LVT’s devastating criticism of Tchenguiz/Peverel management
  - Charter Quay tops £500,000 after latest win over ‘rent for common areas’
  - What part of ‘Go away!’ don’t you understand, Vincent?
- Category: Chelsea Bridge Wharf
  - Chelsea Bridge Wharf: a win for Peverel
- Category: Conveyancing Association
  - 98% of rip-off lease sales broke consumer protection rules, says Conveyancing Association
  - Buyers would have ignored ground rent clauses even if we had told them, says conveyancer Rob Hailstone
  - Englishman’s home isn’t a castle: it’s a revenue stream for an offshore company thanks to national housebuilders, Justin Madders tells the Commons
  - Leasehold needs to be reformed, BBC Money Box Live is told
  - Conveyancing Association’s Beth Rudolph attacks the HomeOwners Alliance for ‘scaremongering’ over leasehold
  - Conveyancing Association snubbed over bid to make freeholders join a redress scheme
  - Leasehold sales are bedevilled with ‘extortionate’ charges and game-playing, says the Conveyancing Association
  - BBC Radio 4 on housing association leasehold … and a German asks: is it safe to buy a flat in London?
  - £80 million a year in charges for conveyancing leasehold property, say lawyers
- Category: Countrywide
  - Countrywide to take away pensioner’s flower pots, says local newspaper
  - Gateway Property Management takes over as Countrywide is given the boot by Bovis
  - Council’s section 106 is delaying the hand-over of residents’ management companies, Countrywide tells leaseholder in complaints ruling
- Category: DCLG
  - Right to Manage added to the ever growing list of leasehold reforms
  - Government announces regulator to protect leaseholders and their £4 billion in service charges
  - Leasehold issues raised at prime minister’s questions
  - Minister no7 – Dominic Raab
  - Why has it taken so long to regulate the leasehold sector?
  - Peter Bottomley MP calls for a debate on leasehold reform
  - Welcome, Alok Sharma … another new Conservative housing minister
  - Justin Madders MP demands LEASE chair has ‘no business interests in the leasehold sector’
  - DCLG told ‘incentive to remain an honest managing agent gets less with each passing year’
  - RTM Scaremongers!
  - Housing minister Brandon Lewis meets LKP
  - DCLG to reform recognised residents association rules
  - LKP and LEASE thank DCLG civil servant for helping leaseholders
- Category: E&J Capital Partners
  - Change your doubling ground rents before the John Lewis Partnerships Pension Trust sells the freehold, urges LKP
  - Pensioner paid £38,000 for Taylor Wimpey freehold to ground rent speculators E&J Capital Partners
  - E&J Capital Partners in full retreat over rapacious ground rent terms
- Category: Exit fees
  - Campaign against Residential Leasehold Exploitation and AgeUK reject Law Commission draft on exit fees
- Category: Fleecehold
  - Developers can now seize FREEHOLD homes, reports BBC R4 MoneyBox in shocking expose of ‘fleecehold’
  - South Somerset council enters the ‘fleecehold’ racket
  - ‘Fleecehold’ property trap returns to parliamentary agenda with new private member’s bill
  - ‘Fleecehold’ estate management contracts are the latest fiddle from taxpayer-subsidised house builders
  - Leasehold house owners thank Brokenshire after Persimmon sells freehold to leasehold house for less than £3,750
  - Farewell to newbuild leasehold houses?
  - Labour MP Helen Goodman fights ‘fleecehold’ rip-offs with Private Members’ Bill
  - 69% of new houses in NW are leasehold. Many owners stuck in limbo. And ban fleecehold covenants, says Maria Eagle
  - ‘Fleecehold’ petition launched to stop housebuilders creating YET ANOTHER revenue stream from their customers
- Category: Forfeiture
  - Moskovitz forfeits £400k Camden flat from 24-year-old woman ‘whose brother did not forward correspondence for two years’
  - Neighbour forfeits leaseholder’s £600,000 London maisonette for putting in a new bathroom
  - Two flats a year face forfeiture in constituency of housing minister Gavin Barwell
  - Leasehold law – the first real changes in 14 years?
  - How JB Leitch just cannot resist the F-word … for forfeiture
  - Too expensive to give figures on leasehold forfeiture, says Ministry of Justice
  - Woman has £165,000 flat forfeited over what began as £290 ground rent demand
  - LKP wins press awards for two years running
  - Sebastian O’Kelly wins second press award for leasehold reform
  - George Osborne’s former nanny faces £100,000 bills and loss of home
  - George Osborne’s former nanny faces £100,000 bill and homelessness after refusing to pay major works on her leasehold ex-council flat
  - Sunday Times reports the forfeiture scandal of Dennis Jackson at Plantation Wharf
  - Pickles to stop councils charging leasehold owners more than £10,000 for major block repairs. But will it help many?
  - Leasehold forfeiture: why is LEASE so pathetic over this, too?
  - Jackson leasehold forfeiture taken up by Private Eye, The Oldie, Mail and TV
  - Fury at ‘life-shattering’ forfeiture case held in a secret court
  - Leasehold pensioner reprieved from forfeiture … but the legal bill is £76,000 and rising
  - Battersea MP wades into Jackson leasehold forfeiture dispute
  - Plantation Wharf leasehold pensioner has forfeiture order on his £800,000 flat
  - Plantation Wharf pensioner wins 28-day reprieve on forfeiture
  - Pensioner who defied ‘complex’ service charges faces forfeiture of his £800,000 flat at Plantation Wharf
- Category: FPRA
  - ‘If I fail to offend anyone, I will do it next time,’ Bottomley tells appalled LEASE annual conference
  - Housing minister makes a start with a round-table discussion of leasehold
  - Section 20 consultation: ‘FPRA is siding with landlords’
  - ‘Drive your MPs mad to change leasehold,’ Gardner tells FPRA
- Category: Gleeson Homes
  - Gleeson tells ground rent speculator Landmark Investments to remove testimonial
  - Gleeson CEO Jolyon Harrison responds over ‘fleasehold’ row and asks Justin Madders for an apology
- Category: Grenfell cladding
  - 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
  - Sector announces new building safety test for leasehold blocks to ‘keep the high-rise property market flowing’
  - Leaseholders and freeholder of evacuated Manchester block win £10.8m insurer payout for ‘serious defects’
  - Cladding site? Come to parliamentary meeting on January 9 … and get your MP to attend as well
  - Grenfell United link up with leaseholder groups to protest cladding crisis and warn next government of Grenfell 2
  - Why AN14 is making your cladding flat impossible to sell
  - Only one Grenfell cladding site in line for taxpayer handout as December 31st deadline looms, reports BBC R4 You and Yours
  - Cladding victims unimpressed by Robert Jenrick on BBC1’s Question Time
  - 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
  - Residents at cladding site Citiscape allowed back in to retrieve possessions
  - What to do about the Grenfell cladding scandal, asks Oxford conference
  - Barratt evacuates Grenfell cladding site Citiscape
  - Reviewer of building regulations admits post-Grenfell safety regime open to abuse by rogue freeholders
  - Cladding crisis reveals why freeholders are an impediment to any solution
  - Leaseholders to sue government over fire safety measures
  - Barking fire site is owned by anonymous investors in Adriatic Land
  - New Capital Quay leaseholders to sue Galliard over Grenfell cladding
  - Paddington Walk leaseholders have paid £3.5m to remove Grenfell cladding, with more to come …
  - Campaign to get government to help fund Grenfell cladding removal
  - Grenfell cladding leaseholders form campaign group
  - Lendlease caves in over £5m Grenfell cladding bills at Vallea Court and Cypress Place
  - Theresa May also thinks that ‘building owners’ – freeholders – will pay for Grenfell cladding
  - Furious attack on government Grenfell cladding inaction in Commons
  - Grenfell cladding leaseholders despair of government doing anything ..
  - Tchenguiz group dismisses government ‘hollow threat’ to make freeholders pay for Grenfell cladding removal
  - Fury in Manchester as Lendlease wins £160m contract to refurb city hall, while dumping Grenfell cladding costs on leaseholders
  - Pull the other one, Vincent! Leasehold reform hasn’t stuffed Fairhold. It was downgraded in 2015 …
  - Santa visits Citiscape and New Providence Wharf
  - MHCLG ‘fundamentally flawed’ in expecting freeholders to pay for Grenfell cladding removal, LKP tells the FT
  - Slough Council v Benji the Binman over Grenfell cladding costs at Nova House
  - Brokenshire tells freeholders to pay up to remove Grenfell cladding. But how can that work?
  - Brokenshire wrongly says freeholders have paid for Grenfell cladding removal
  - Government thinking freeholders are paternalistic long-term custodians of a building is where it has gone wrong over Grenfell cladding
  - Why should Will Astor, Tchenguiz etc be paying to remove Grenfell cladding?
  - Bellway and Peabody cave in over Grenfell cladding costs at New Festival Quarter
  - Sean Mulryan’s Ballymore won’t be doing the ‘decent thing’ over Grenfell cladding costs at New Providence Wharf
  - Private Eye identifies yet another murky offshore landlord, Vuillard Holdings Limited, with Grenfell cladding
  - 20,000 leaseholders trapped in blocks with Grenfell cladding, says Telegraph
  - Slough council takes Nova House leaseholders to tribunal over Grenfell cladding costs
  - £3m Grenfell cladding bills fall on residents at Lendlease’s Cypress Place and Vallea Court
  - Taylor Wimpey has paid out only £11.2m of the supposed £130m to sort the doubling ground rent scam
  - APPG hears agony of Grenfell cladding on private sites, while Lendlease sites head to tribunal to get leaseholders to pay
  - NHBC accepts Grenfell cladding bill at Galliard’s New Capital Quay
  - Ground rent speculators Pemberstone seek £3m tribunal ruling over Grenfell cladding
  - Cladding forum for private leasehold blocks – 18th July
  - Prime Minister ‘not ruling anything out’ with freeholders and builders over responsibility for Grenfell cladding
  - Leaseholders in local authority and housing association blocks will have Grenfell cladding bill paid by government
  - Government to ask Will Astor: who is the offshore freeholder at Heysmoor Heights (where ordinary families face £18k Grenfell cladding bills)?
  - Brokenshire’s dad fixed cladding in Greenwich, Bottomley reminds Commons
  - Taxpayers face £85,000 loss as Homes England accepts leaseholder can pay back loan on flat blighted by Grenfell cladding
  - The Sun / The Times urge caution over leasehold purchases, while The Times / Guardian / Mail report Barratt paying out £2m at Citiscape
  - Sesame Apartments: Yet another anonymous Long Harbour freeholder demanding £2.2 million over Grenfell cladding
  - Sajid Javid calls for Grenfell cladding round table with developers and freeholders … and LKP will be invited
  - House of Commons briefing to MPs on Grenfell Cladding: contact LKP
  - Tchenguiz, Astor and offshore freeholders like Abacus Land 4 Limited should PUBLICLY meet over Grenfell cladding, MPs told
  - Grenfell cladding debate: Who thinks offshore freeholders will pay (apart from government ministers)?
  - (Galliard v NHBC v the Government v Cladding suppliers) v the Leaseholders
  - John Healey says it’s ‘wrong’ for leaseholders to have to pay to remove Grenfell cladding
  - Will Astor ‘tried to nobble reform of ground rents’, Daily Mail claims
  - Will Heysmoor Heights leaseholders lose their homes to anonymous offshore freeholder if they cannot pay Grenfell bills?
  - ‘Gargantuan’ Grenfell cladding bills from Astor and Tchenguiz on sites such as New Festival Quarter, The Times reveals today
  - Blenheim Centre flat owners to be spared £20,000-30,000 each on Grenfell cladding bill, Legal & General tells LKP
  - Croydon leaseholders at Citiscape face £750,000 bill to remove Grenfell Tower cladding
  - Grenfell Tower, what next?
- Category: Gurvits
  - Should the RTMF be taking the Elim Court battle for right to manage to the Court of Appeal?
  - Retirement site loses right to manage appeal after three years. Now what’s the cost?
  - MPs call for all-party group on leasehold, and to stop right to manage being thwarted
  - Israel Moskovitz ‘unappealing conduct’ reported in The Oldie
  - Israel Moskovitz fails – again – to appeal against the Regent Court right to manage
  - ‘Don’t make the pensioners of Regent Court take you to court AGAIN, Mr Moskovitz,’ urges Bottomley
  - The Right To Manage Federation chalks up its 28th leasehold RTM success in central London … as it fights epic Plymouth RTM duel in the Land Tribunal
  - Tory MP backs pensioners in leasehold right to manage dispute
  - Bottomley meets Joseph Gurvits and Israel Moskovitz over leasehold right to manage disputes at Plymouth retirement developments – but residents are determined to fight it out
  - Managing agent Joseph Gurvits named in Commons – an hour after MP attends ARMA round-table conference on tougher ethical standards
  - Pensioners lose leasehold right to manage application for the third time
  - Pensioners in third escape attempt from Gurvits
- Category: Hanover
  - Hanover has sold 21 retirement house manager flats
  - Housing associations lose £750,000 in SmartSource Water scandal
  - Time to have another look at commonhold, say Lords. But what are Lord Best’s proposals?
  - February news archive (headlines)
- Category: House managers flat
  - After furore at Mere Court another retirement leasehold site rebels in Knutsford
  - Hand over £100,000 house manager’s flat at retirement leasehold site and we will give you £10,000, say Peverel / Tchenguiz
- Category: House of Lords
  - The new leaseholders’ hero … Lloyd George
  - ‘Five million leaseholders is a lot of votes’, the Lords are told
  - We won’t protect leaseholders’ funds even after Van Houten’s theft because … that was the last government’s idea
  - Baroness Gardner calls for leaseholders’ money held by managing agents to be protected
  - CentreForum think tank ponders leasehold
  - Lords to debate leasehold abuses
- Category: Housing associations
  - Housing association Network Homes seeks to dump some of its £200m cladding costs on leaseholders
  - Synergy housing association fined £1m over five-year-old’s death in lift
  - Rectory Court slashes service charges after dumping Stonewater for right to manage LKP accredited managing agent
  - Notting Hill Genesis housing association pulls shared ownership leasehold advert after complaints
  - Circle Housing humiliated over £22,000 major works bills at Merton Priory knocked back to £3,500
  - LKP helps cut Hyde Group £600 ground rent demand to £50
  - Will Lord Best’s proposals produce a healthy retirement housing market …
  - OFT leasehold management inquiry includes housing associations and council properties – and will report in September
  - Anchor Trust upsets retirement residents by allowing sub-letting – where the lease prohibits it
- Category: Informal lease extension
  - Wellcome Trust ‘wrong’ over exploiting the lease extension racket in its property portfolio, Bottomley tells The Times
  - Informal lease extensions are pure poison!
  - Why ALEP should be your first stop if you are extending a lease
- Category: Insurance scams
  - Regis Group’s rip-off insurance bill cut down by two-thirds at tribunal
  - Times journalist defeats MB Freeholds and RMG over insurance dispute
  - Financial Ombudsman urged to look into leasehold insurance scams
  - Leasehold flood risks and how to make 4.1 million homes disappear …
  - Been ripped off over leasehold insurance? Take your complaint to the secret ombudsman, says Peverel
  - Janet Entwistle: ‘There are problems with Peverel’s reputation, but new owners are in it for the long term’
  - Managing agents owned by landlords must come clean … says leading managing agent
  - How you get scammed on insurance … with tips from LEASE!
- Category: IRPM
  - Shouldn’t the IRPM have slightly more respect for leaseholders than this?
  - Can this possibly be good news?
  - Fraudster managing agent gets 30 months jail for using East Londoners’ cash to fund high life in Chelsea
  - Rogue managing agent, who stole £122,000, claimed to be MIRPM qualified … and helped colleagues pass the exams
- Category: Israel Moskovitz
  - 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
  - Law Commission: no problem employing barrister Justin Bates to reform right to manage, while he sets about stuffing another one …
- Category: Jim Fitzpatrick MP
  - ‘The system is rigged against leaseholders’
  - Parliament told the Property Tribunal ‘stinks’: it lets down leaseholders again and again
  - LEASE chair Roger Southam launched complaint to Parliamentary Standards Commissioner against Sir Peter Bottomley and Jim Fitzpatrick (and LKP, naturally enough)
  - Stop the leasehold ‘rip-offs’ by joining our APPG, Fitzpatrick tells MPs
  - Ban leasehold by 2020, says MP Jim Fitzpatrick … and introduce commonhold instead
- Category: John Christodoulou
  - Tribunal to rule on whether West India Quay leaseholders are subbing the energy costs of the hotel below
  - Legal army to stop West India Quay getting … a recognised residents’ association
- Category: Justin Bates
  - Lawyers offer pro bono aid to leaseholder facing QC in £24,000 dispute in Upper Tribunal
  - Biggest right to manage victory ever at Century Wharf, Cardiff
  - Lawyers fighting right to manage get their legal fees slashed from £28,117 to JUST £2,883!
  - Corrie and footie stars may face £100,000 bill in epic battle to win right to manage at No.1 Deansgate
  - Gill Nieuwland’s guide to property tribunal survival (1)
  - Barrister Justin Bates delays ANOTHER right to manage by nearly two years. Corrie and Man United stars among the ‘victims’
  - Barrister Justin Bates fails to block right to manage on the grounds that leaseholders’ company name did not include ‘RTM’ in the title
  - Young barrister who won ‘legal torture’ case is nominated for award
  - Full ‘legal torture’ tribunal ruling is published
  - ‘Legal torture’ pensioners settle for £68,500 … but two of the original leasehold applicants have since died
  - Pensioners in £137,000 victory
- Category: Justin Madders MP
  - Justin Madders MP endorses the National Leasehold Campaign trio for prestigious Women in Housing Awards
  - Justin Madders Bill: 10x annual ground rent and the freehold is yours … Anyone got a problem with that?
  - Law Commissioner wants to meet YOU: November 3
  - National housebuilders ‘sold an illusion’ of home ownership, says Justin Madders MP
  - Justin Madders: this could be called the Leasehold Emancipation Bill
  - Justin Madders launches Bill to end the enfranchisement and lease extension racket
  - MP Justin Madders questions role of Roger Southam as LEASE chair
- Category: Law Commission
- Category: LEASE
  - Bottomley asks housing minister: when was the purpose of LEASE last reviewed?
  - Wibble, Wobble: why the Leasehold Advisory Service needs to be reformed
  - Welsh government to investigate leasehold abuses
  - LKP comment on LEASE annual conference 2012: a trade show for ‘leasehold professionals’ courtesy of taxpayers
- Category: Local authority leasehold
  - Leasehold owners attack council ‘admin’ charges
  - Whistleblower accuses contractor of cheating … adding to leasehold owners’ misery
  - Simon Hughes aids local authority leasehold owners
  - How local authority leasehold owners can fight back
- Category: London Assembly
  - Progress report on our Houses of Parliament briefing
  - London Assembly’s report ‘Highly Charged’
  - Boris summons LKP
- Category: McCarthy and Stone
  - LKP meets shadow housing minister Emma Reynolds
  - Shelter ‘dumps’ the Campaign for Housing in Later Life
  - Campaign for Housing in Later Life traced to … McCarthy and Stone HQ!
  - You and Yours features Campaign against Residential Leasehold Exploitation and OFT inquiry into leasehold management
  - McCarthy and Stone gives Peverel the push at 25 retirement sites
- Category: Moskovitz / Gurvits
- Category: Oakland Court
- Category: OFT / CMA
- Category: Park Homes
- Category: Parliament
  - Category: APPG April 19 2017
  - Category: APPG April 26 2018
  - Category: APPG December 14 2016
  - Category: APPG July 11 2018
  - Category: APPG July 5 2017
  - Category: Communities Select Committee
  - Category: MPs' APPG on leasehold
    - Category: APPG
- Category: Persimmon
- Category: Peverel
- Category: Peverel Cirrus story so far
- Category: Philip Rainey QC
- Category: Plantation Wharf
  - SCANDAL: LKP stops forfeiture of £800,000 flat … over a £7,000 service charge dispute
- Category: Property tribunal
- Category: Prostitutes
  - Panic at prostitutes results in £912 sub-letting fee demand
- Category: Quadrangle House
- Category: Redrow
- Category: Retirement
- Category: RICS
- Category: Right To Manage Federation
- Category: Roger Southam
- Category: RTM
  - Right to manage guide
- Category: Sean Powell
- Category: SFO
- Category: Shared ownership
- Category: Sinclair Gardens Investments
- Category: Sir Ed Davey
- Category: Sir Peter Bottomley
- Category: St George's Wharf
- Category: Taylor Wimpey
- Category: Tchenguiz
- Category: West India Quay
- Category: West India Quay: Comment
- Category: William Waldorf Astor
- Category: Windrush Court
Category: Press
- CRL insurers to explain ground rents set to zero
- Earlier press coverage
Category: Professional services
- Richard John Clarke, chartered surveyors
- Richard John Clarke
Category: Q&As
- BNP Paribas is charging £220 subletting fee – for very little
- High charges from Deacon property management. Advice needed
- If you buy this flat, subletting fees are £10,000 … investors deterred from buying
Category: Slider Posts
- LKP managing agents can end your leasehold nightmare
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- OFT price-fixing cheat Glyn Jackson is back working at Peverel sites
Category: Sub-letting
- Sub-letting fees should not be more than £40, landlords are told (four times by the Land Tribunal)
- Category: Exit fees
Category: Uncategorized
- Chronology 2017
- TablePress test site
- Category: Brixton Hill Court: Comment
- Category: Brixton residents comment
- Category: Mulberry Mews
  - Should the chairman of the Leasehold Advisory Service be the owner of embedded management companies?
- Category: Property tribunal fails – again!
  - Shouldn’t this case have been dealt with by a more senior court than the ‘low-cost’ property tribunal?
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