ARMA

What a surprise! Nigel Glen becomes the mouthpiece of freehold investors

Nigel Glen decamps to FirstPort, abandoning the ‘Property Institute’ (ARMA, IRPM)

Sir Peter Bottomley calls on ministers to listen to ‘whistleblower’ ex-employees of Richard Davidoff (of ABC Estates)

Property tribunal chamber president Siobhan McGrath says Richard Davidoff has two other section 24 court appointments – ‘as far as I can ascertain’ – and proposes a new practice code to encourage section 24 appointees to behave

Baroness Dianne Hayter criticises LKP for not taking part in property managers’ new code of practice

ARMA becomes a lobbyist for freeholders

LKP, NLC and FPRA decline to participate in trade body insiders’ code of conduct

Report from Tchenguiz Family Trust, Long Harbour and Wallace Estates seeks to side-line leasehold reforms by fear-mongering over fire safety

Has Coronavirus caused collapse in service charge receipts? Not yet, says ARMA, but we will see in September …

ARMA on commonhold: Falling leasehold values. Zombie apartment blocks. Plenty of scrapping. Lack of interest. But good business for professional managers …

LKP joins ARMA initiative to urge chancellor to fund re-cladding bills set to ruin 500,000 leaseholders

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 …

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

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