Damning on the Covid hysteria city-journal.org/article/harvar…

'Young adult ownership has collapsed much more steeply in UK than America, France, and Germany. Faith in tacit compact of social mobility underpinning democracy – work hard and be wealthier than your parents – has shattered' conservativehome.com/2024/03/04/yim…

Hardworking families? A chronically ill-led, unproductive society sees its assets being stripped out: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

9/ Conveyancers not giving decent advice Lee Rowley? Again and again developer recommended solicitors act as compliant stooges. Not ONE flagged up 10-yr doubling ground rent, for eg. Their recommendation = seek advice elsewhere Neil O'Brien MP Sir Peter Bottomley MP leaseholdknowledge.com/mps-lkp-demand…

7/ Matthew Pennycook MP is right councils can't just re-adopt fleecehold. RTM better. Very good also to urge rentcharges for the bonfire echoing Peter Bottomley which turns freehold house into leasehold and risk forfeiture Lee Rowley Neil O'Brien MP

6/ Neil O'Brien MP names Countryside who, lest we forget, were up to their neck in the doubling ground rent scandal Lee Rowley leaseholdknowledge.com/cma-forces-cou…

Leaseholders aren't the customer, they're the product. Evidence to Lords today: regulating agents is nice but secondary to their imposition on flat owners by often anonymous landlords:
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Nice surprise on the doorstep: my book has just been republished again in Italy, 20 years after the original. The royalty cheques tend to be a bit more tardy, I find.

Enjoyed doing leasehold Bill committee today with Liam Spender Result of years of work with martinboyd LKP will be drafting up a share of freehold amendment.

Really good detailed and impressive questioning at the leasehold Bill committee from Matthew Pennycook MP and Barry Gardiner today

Tour de force performance by prof Tim Leunig at the leasehold Bill committee this pm: his students are very lucky. Good he sees a rigged leasehold market and urges commonhold Michael Gove Lee Rowley

One of the best

Bearer bonds; offshore games; the hitching of a ride on ordinary people's desire to have a home ... sacking of Rachel Maclean MP just before leasehold reforms were due has put me right off my tea.
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Do I sense the hand of Liam Booth Smith, Sunak advisor, in the defenestration of Rachel Maclean MP just before the leasehold Bill? He gifted freeholders the two-storey permitted development after all.

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You are some of the richest leaseholders in the country, and you are being kicked around. We tried helping getting your tenants' assoc recognised. Concerned that Harry is fronting everything on this: doesn't seem very brave.

And opt for peppercorn ground rent in the options. Make any further disobliging additional comments about your freeholder, as you wish.

Five ways to mend a broken housing market: scrap stamp duty, charge CGT on main homes, build 300k homes a year, sort out the rental market and say no to the NIMBYs inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyl…
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