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January 6, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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So HCLG want to know what the main barriers are to home ownership.

This is the elephant in the room LEASEHOLD ‼️‼️‼️

Leasehold is NOT homeownership and is miss sold as such - trapping millions in a system they cant escape

#LeaseholdScandal @chriscurtis94.bsky.social @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 9:12 PM
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The NLC mobilised leaseholders across the country in a coordinated mass email action aimed at MPs & Ministers. Leaseholders urged urgent progress on leasehold reform.

#LeaseholdScandal

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Campaigners urge MPs to take immediate action on leasehold reform - Property Industry Eye
Campaigners urge MPs to take immediate action on leasehold reform - Breaking news for estate agents and the residential property industry. Independent, unbiased, and factual reporting. A forum for dis...
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January 6, 2026 at 2:30 PM
nlc-movement.bsky.social
ARE YOU READY?

💥💥NLC MASS EMAIL EVENT - 5TH JAN 9AM💥💥

Time for action - Enough is Enough

#LeaseholdScandal #Trapped
December 30, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Labour MPs urge Keir Starmer to keep promise to cap ground rents

More than 80 MPs co-ordinated by Justin Madders have urged Keir not to bow to pressure from the Treasury to scrap plans for a cap on ground rents @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social

#LeaseholdScandal

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Labour MPs urge Keir Starmer to keep promise to cap ground rents
Pension funds and investors put pressure on Treasury to scrap pledge that would mark a shift from leasehold to ‘commonhold’
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December 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Government fails to bring forward draft leasehold legislation: Housing Committee Chair responds.....

This government failed to deliver this Christmas 😪

The "Slight Delay" had best be worth it

#LeaseholdScandal #Trapped @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social

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Government fails to bring forward draft leasehold legislation: Housing Committee Chair responds - Committees - UK Parliament
Florence Eshalomi, Chair of the Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG) Committee has responded to the Government’s failure to publish the draft Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill in ...
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December 18, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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The quiet divide conveyancers are now facing under the hidden impact of leasehold reform | Today's Conveyancer

🚫IN THE MEANTIME LEASEHOLDERS REMAIN TRAPPED IN LEASEHOLD LIMBO

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#LeaseholdScandal
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The quiet divide conveyancers are now facing under the hidden impact of leasehold reform | Today's Conveyancer
The quiet divide conveyancers are now facing under the hidden impact of leasehold reform: Louise Ainley, conveyancing solicitor at licensed conveyancer course provider Access Law Online, explains how ...
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December 12, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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💥RETIREMENT HOUSING SCAM CONTINUES💥

Bereaved family members’ estates are at risk of bankruptcy -
How can this be right for a government backed scheme? @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social

#LeaseholdScandal @insidehousing.bsky.social

www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/leaseho...
Leasehold concerns leave executors of extra care shared ownership properties struggling to settle family estates
Executors of extra care shared ownership properties are struggling to settle family members’ estates due to service charge costs and leasehold concerns.
www.insidehousing.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Leasehold ‘wild west’ under scrutiny as minister criticises FirstPort’s fees and failures

REMINDER - It's not just First Port ‼️and its been under scrutiny for MANY years but still the exploitation continues @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social

#LeaseholdScandal

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Leasehold ‘wild west’ under scrutiny as minister criticises FirstPort’s fees and failures
Exclusive: Senior minister raises ‘significant concerns’ over one of UK’s biggest property managers
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December 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
mykomment.bsky.social
One day, when the #leaseholdscandal is all gone, THIS!!
Will still be a scourge on flat dwellers when appointing a management company which many will do.
Protections are needed.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Plymouth leaseholders' torment over alleged cladding fraud
Police in Devon are investigating allegations of fraud and misuse of funds.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 8:47 AM
nlc-movement.bsky.social
Parasitical, wealth-eroding freehold landlordism has suffered a devastating blow, but the appeals may keep coming if landlords reckon delay works in their favour
By @liamspender.bsky.social

NLC and LKP will not give up fighting 💪

#LeaseholdScandal

www.leaseholdknowledge.com/losing-their...
Losing their £5m judicial review against the leasehold reforms threatens freeholders' long era of primacy. So, what's next? - Leasehold Knowledge Partnership
Parasitical, wealth-eroding freehold landlordism has suffered a devastating blow, but the appeals may keep coming if landlords reckon delay works in their favour By Liam Spender Liam Spender is a trus...
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October 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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GOVERNMENT WINS JUDICIAL REVIEW ON ALL POINTS ‼️‼️

Today is a great day for leaseholders. Now over to you @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social GO GO GO !!!!

#LeaseholdScandal

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ARC Time Freehold Income Authorised Fund & Ors, R (on the application of) v The Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government - Find Case Law - The National Archives ...
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October 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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The poo in the rivers story is ongoing. Another symptom of the collapse of building regulation. See also #CladdingScandal #LeaseholdScandal #NewBuildNightmares
August 21, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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#LeaseholdScandal
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Kirkby: £1m 'down the drain' as danger flats set to close
Up to £1m of tenants' and taxpayers' money has been spent trying to fix Beech Rise and Willow Rise.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 21, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Judicial Review Day 3:

Freeholders incur judge’s wrath as government opens its case -

@lkpleasehold.share.google @liamspender.bsky.social

#Lawfare #LeaseholdScandal

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Judicial Review Day 3: Freeholders incur judge’s wrath as government opens its case - Leasehold Knowledge Partnership
By Liam Spender Liam Spender is a trustee of LKP and head of real estate litigation at Velitor Law, whose class action leasehold insurance commissions is reported on BBC here The views expressed here ...
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July 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Judicial Review Day 2:

Heat is on and the wigs come off in sweltering courtroom 76

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@matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social

#Lawfare #LeaseholdScandal #MarriageValue #HumanRights
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Judicial Review Day 2: Heat is on and the wigs come off in sweltering courtroom 76 - Leasehold Knowledge Partnership
By Liam Spender Today saw the second of four days in the freeholders’ judicial review challenge to the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act (“LAFRA”). Court 76 was packed again [with lawyers. Actually th...
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July 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Sebastian O'kelly @lkpleasehold.bsky.social tells BBC London

"Using lawfair is an attempt to derail the will of our parliament and our democracy"

"EXTRAORDINARY ARROGANCE, IT'S OUTRAGEOUS"

#LeaseholdScandal #Lawfare
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July 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Judicial Review Day 1: Bad start for freeholders but three days to go....

LAWFARE

#LeaseholdScandal #HumanRights
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Judicial Review Day 1: Bad start for freeholders but three days to go - Leasehold Knowledge Partnership
By Liam Spender The freeholders’ judicial review began at the High Court in London today, running until Friday. Freeholders are off to a bad start with their argument that the Leasehold and Freehold R...
www.leaseholdknowledge.com
July 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Housing Minister, Matthew Pennycook remains committed to ending the feudal leasehold system by the end of this Parliament 👏

They remain on course to switch on LAFRA @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

@matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social

#LeaseholdScandal
July 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
nlc-movement.bsky.social
This is simply not a human rights fight as any non-lawyer would see it: it is fight over comparatively recent income streams cobbled together by the property sector to the detriment and expense of ordinary homeowners.

#LeaseholdScandal #trapped

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Freehold owning charity in judicial review says 'disastrous' leasehold reforms will benefit millionaires and deprive poor children - Leasehold Knowledge Partnership
The John Lyon's Charity - one of the freeholders mounting a judicial review against the leasehold reforms next week - has made a public plea to scrap the changes (in full below).
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July 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Strengthening leaseholder consumer rights

"Following the consultation, we intend to bring the various measures into force as quickly as possible. To end the feudal leasehold system for good"

@matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social

#Leaseholdscandal

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July 4, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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It's a huge honour for the three of us to be on the Kings Honours List to receive an OBE for our work on Leasehold🎖🎖🎖 @jodarbyshire.bsky.social @cathnlc.bsky.social

#LeaseholdScandal #LeaseholdOBE

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National Leasehold Campaign founders honoured for their work - Leasehold Knowledge Partnership
The three co-founders of the National Leasehold Campaign - Katie Kendrick, Cath Williams and Joanne Darbyshire - are to receive OBEs in the king's birthday honours.
www.leaseholdknowledge.com
June 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
mykomment.bsky.social
As if Banks didnt learn the first time
BTW, this is all designed to ensure builders get their profits.
Property prices are related to 'available debt'
#SharedOwnership is also designed to launder profits
And BTW it's also a #leaseholdscandal basis
READ UP PLEASE!
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/j...
UK mortgages: 100% loans are back – will they work for you?
The controversial loan has returned. We look at the deals and explain why it’s worth saving up a 5% deposit or more
www.theguardian.com
June 7, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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💢 LEASEHOLD DEBATE 💢
Thank you Ruth Cadbury MP for raising this ongoing issue and for recognising our hard work representing leaseholders over the past 8 years.
Listen from 11:00 am
#leaseholdscandal
#buildingsafety
#servicecharges
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June 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
mykomment.bsky.social
Westminster Council seeing #leasehold resident insurance rises as companies leave market.
#leaseholdscandal
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Council leasehold block residents face soaring insurance bills as companies leave market - Westminster Times
Westminster Council has told its tenants this year's insurance bill has doubled from last year, in part because it has been left with no choice but to choose the sole provider.
westminstertimes.co.uk
June 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM