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.FirstPort UK suspended from its own trade body The Property Institute That's one of the biggest leasehold managers with portfolio of 'fleecehold' estates, too. Matthew Pennycook MP Neil O'Brien David Pinto-Duschinsky MP leaseholdknowledge.com/firstport-susp…

Southwark Council - London's largest council landlord - has 50% of its homes without smoke alarms and 2,000 fire remedial issues outstanding. Utterly damning anywhere, but especially in the borough which lost six residents to the Lakanal House fire in 2009

Great piece from David Byers showing how local animosity towards development grows when you keep people in the dark about it thetimes.com/life-style/pro…

I went to Liverpool to see how the city's historic docks are being re-developed. In the autumn budget, the chancellor Rachel Reeves announced she was granting £56million via Homes England, to speed up development there thetimes.com/life-style/pro…

Service charges, cladding issues and neighbour battles have contributed to the market for apartment living flatlining thetimes.com/life-style/pro…

Here's everything we know following yesterday's commonhold white paper. It'll be great to see a reinvigorated legal framework for commonhold but there is still a question mark over where this leaves existing leaseholders thetimes.com/life-style/pro…

As the government proposes banning the sale of new leasehold flats, a class action lawsuit suggests owners may be owed millions in compensation. Very well done by James Hurley thetimes.com/business-money…

I'm writing about the future of Right to Buy for the Sunday Times. Does anyone follow me on here who has used the scheme to buy their council home who would be willing to chat about it? #journorequest

COMMONHOLD FOR THE MANY, NOT JUST THE NEW ✍️ We’re in The Times and The Sunday Times today. The Labour Party mustn’t sacrifice existing leaseholders to juice the new-builds market. The commonhold white paper leaves many excluded. We have some policy ideas to help avoid this: thetimes.com/life-style/pro…

The Times and Sunday Times paywall is down - so why not read a new investigation by Melissa York and me on why luxury London homes are languishing empty... from Belgravia to Notting Hill. thetimes.com/article/163e37…

In Notting Hill a serene garden square reveals a startling trend: most houses stand empty. Is it tax changes, market timing or something more sinister? Me and David Byers look into why so many big houses in London are not lived in. It’s FREE TO READ 🎉 thetimes.com/article/163e37…

Rachel Reeves announced a cash injection for affordable homes in her spring statement in a bid to hit the government’s building target. Questions remain over when these homes will be built, who will build them and how many will be genuinely affordable thetimes.com/life-style/pro…

If you're struggling to find property content on the new Times app/website, click Life & Style at the top, then scroll down to Property & Home. Or bookmark this: thetimes.com/life-style/pro…

The Grenfell inquiry told us how three manufacturers lied. Today's revelations in The Times and The Sunday Times spell out how misleading marketing was not limited to three bad actors. The cladding and building safety crisis is becoming Britain’s biggest corporate scandal. thetimes.com/life-style/pro…