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Insurance

John Christodoulou ‘lamentable’ lack of transparency over excessive £1.6m insurance costs at Canary Riverside

Category: Canary Riverside, Insurance, John Christodoulou, Latest News, NewsTag: Angie Jezard, Canary Riverside, Canary Riverside Estate Management Limited, Financial Conduct Authority, Financial Times, John Christodoulou, Justin Bates, Reich, Westminster Management Services, Yianis Group

FCA authorised firms that are coining more than 40% profits out of leasehold insurance, and here’s how:

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: ARC Time Freehold Income, Arthur J Gallagher, Consensus Business Group, Cox Braithwaite, E&J Estates, E&M Estates, FCA, Financial Conduct Authority, FirstPort, Ground Rents Income Fund plc, Homeground Management Limited, Knight Square, Long Harbour, Rendall and Rittner, Simarc, Wallace Partnership Group

LKP’s response to the Financial Conduct Authority report on leasehold buildings insurance

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: FCA, Financial Conduct Authority, Insurance

Compass Point

FCA report on insurance in leasehold blocks: what does it propose and why does it matter?

Category: Insurance, Latest News, Liam Spender, News

Leasehold insurance: 17 years of FCA regulatory failure

Category: Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: Financial Conduct Authority, Insurance

Compass Point

Compass Point faces insurance price hike from £12,000 to £250,000, with 21 days to pay the bill

Category: Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: Clear Building Management, Compass Point, Financial Conduct Authority, Inside Housing

Tory Treasurer Lord Leigh and Priti Patel’s family accused of gaming the opportunities of leasehold

Category: Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: Andrew Ellson, Anjana Patel, CMA, Daily Mirror, David Cameron, Dennis Reed Limited, Dependable Investments Limited, FCA, First-tier Tribunal, Harry Scoffin, Insurance, Insurance scams, Lord Leigh of Hurley, Martin Boyd, Michael Gove, Michael Nock, Neil Solanki, Priti Patel, Property tribunal, Sushil Patel, The Times, Trevor Leigh

Conservatives and RICS kicked back at insurance kickbacks in 2006. Unfortunately, they did nothing about it – and here we are

Category: Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: ARMA, Chainbow, Christos Lazari, Estates Gazette, FCA, Graham Chase, Harry Scoffin, ICOBS, Lazari Investments Limited, Lord Barker of Battle, Lucy Barnard, Michael Gove, Peter Bill, Peter Rochford, Rendall and Rittner, RICS, Robert Bryant-Pearson, Roger Southam, Sir Terence Etherton, Tchenguiz Family Trust, Theresa Villiers MP, Vincent Tchenguiz

Note to Mr Gove: FSA was warning of ‘reputational risk’ in not cracking down on secret leasehold insurance commissions 17 years ago!

Category: Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: Andrea Coscelli, ARMA, Bob Blackman MP, Clive Briualt, CMA, FCA, Federation of Private Residents Associations, Harry Scoffin, ICOBS, Insurance scams, Insurance Times, John McDonnell, John Prescott, LEASE, Leasehold Advisory Service, Lord Newby, Martin Boyd, Matt Brewis, Michael Gove, OFT, Rabina Khan, Sarah Olney MP, Sir Peter Bottomley

Michael Gove: Is this the robust inquiry into leasehold insurance fiddles that you wanted from the FCA?

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, FCA, Financial Conduct Authority, Lord Newby, Rabina Khan, Sarah Olney MP, Sir Peter Bottomley

Insurance insiders call for an end to secretive leasehold insurance commissions following Canary Riverside ruling

Category: Canary Riverside, Insurance, John Christodoulou, Latest News, NewsTag: Branko, Branko Bjelobaba, Canary Riverside, Canary Riverside Estate Management Limited, CMA, Create Solutions, Dart Compliance, FCA, Insurance, Insurance Age, Insurance scams, Insurance Times, James Dart, John Christodoulou, Judge Amran Vance, Judge Timothy Powell, Michael Gove, Mike Cranny, Nick Symes, Nikhil Rathi, Octagon Overseas Limited, Reich, West India Quay, Yianis Group

James Walton, ABI

Gove calls on complacent FCA to stop the leasehold insurance rip-offs, and urges the CMA to get stuck in as well

Category: Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: Association of British Insurers, CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, FCA, Insurance, Insurance scams, James Dalton, Lord Newby, Michael Gove, Rabina Khan, Sarah Olney MP

Vicky Pollard property tribunal: yes, but … no, but … Yes, you have been ripped off over insurance. But no, we can’t do anything about it

Category: Insurance, Latest News, News, Property tribunal, Richard DavidoffTag: 2 Trevor Close, Cadogan Estate, Dennis Reed & Co., Dependable Investments Limited, Eagle Star, FCA, Financial Ombudsman, First-tier Tribunal, Harry Scoffin, Insurance, Insurance scams, Jeremy Peachey, Judge JR Morris, Judge Naomi Hawkes, Judge Timothy Powell, Lord Leigh of Hurley, Mr M Cairns MCIEH, Neil Solanki, Nilesh Solanki, Pier Management, Property tribunal, Realty, Regis Group, Richard Davidoff, Siobhan McGrath, Trevor Leigh, Zurich

Financial Conduct Authority under pressure to force open secretive insurance commissions, so leaseholders can see what they are paying for

Category: Ballymore, E&J Capital Partners, Insurance, Latest News, News, PressTag: Andrea Coscelli, Arthur J Gallagher, Aviva, Ballymore, Ben Chapman, Cladding insurance, Competition and Markets Authority, Countryside Properties plc, FCA, Harry Scoffin, Insurance, Insurance scams, Liberal Democrats, Lord Newby, Marsh, Persimmon, Rabina Khan, Rendall and Rittner, Sarah Olney MP, The Independent, Zurich

Rendall and Rittner … no insurance commissions, but it owns an offshore ‘captive’ insurance company making a 40% profit on leaseholders’ premiums

Category: Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: Artex Insurance (RR4) IC Limited, AXA, Duncan Rendall, FCA, Justin Madders MP, Matt Rittner, Rendall and Rittner, Sir Ed Davey, Sir Peter Bottomley

Chris Pincher

Minister hears how cladding ‘interim measures’ are ruining a generation of homebuyers

Category: Insurance, Justin Madders MP, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Chris Pincher, Dame Margaret Hodge MP, Florence Eshalomi MP, Hilary Benn MP, Ian Byrne MP, Justin Madders MP, Lord Greenhalgh, Stephen McPartland MP

Liam Spender

Commons Select Committee hears just how little the government understands of the Building Safety Crisis and leasehold law

Category: Communities Select Committee, Insurance, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Clive Betts MP, Liam Spender, Lord Greenhalgh, Richard Goodman DG building safety

Housing crisis. Possible banking crisis. And lease forfeitures ‘very, very soon’, Communities Select Committee is warned

Category: Cladding scandal, Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: Clive Betts MP, Communities Select Committee, Dean Buckner, Nigel Glen, UKCAG, Will Martin

Brindley House cladding leaseholders face eviction, reports BBC R4 You and Yours

Category: Cladding scandal, Insurance, Latest News, News, PressTag: ARMA, BBC R4 You and Yours, Birmingham Leasehold Action Group, Brindley House, Cladding insurance, Cladding scandal, Covid-19, Flood Re, Harry Scoffin, Insurance, Islington Gates, Lord Greenhalgh, Melanie Abbott, Nigel Glen, Poll Re, Shabana Mahmood MP, UK Cladding Action Group, UKCAG

Ritu Saha UKCAG

Cladding sites insurance has gone from £40,000 to £200,000, UKCAG talls City Hall meeting

Category: Cladding scandal, Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: London City Hall, Ritu Saha, UK Cladding Action Group, Will Martin

Birmingham Islington Gates Big

Cladding victims now being hit by insurance hikes, reports BBC R4 You and Yours

Category: Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: BBC R4 You and Yours, Cladding insurance, Cladding scandal, Grenfell cladding, Harry Scoffin, Insurance, Martin Boyd, Melanie Abbott, Waking watch contracts

Leaseholders pay up to 60% more for buildings insurance because of secret commissions, reports The Times, Harry Scoffin,

Category: Insurance, Latest News, News, PressTag: Harry Scoffin, Insurance, Insurance scams, Jay Beeharry, Mark Hawthorn, Mark Hawthornthwaite, Sir Peter Bottomley, The Times

Freeholders’ ‘cowboy’ insurance commissions at leaseholders’ expense attacked in The Times

Category: APPG July 11 2018, Insurance, Latest News, News, PressTag: Neil Holloway, Sir Peter Bottomley, The Times

Regis Group’s rip-off insurance bill cut down by two-thirds at tribunal

Category: Insurance, Latest News, News, PressTag: Gary Murphy, Harry Scoffin, Jeremy Peachey, Nicholas Gould, Peter Gould, Pier Management, Private Eye, Regis Group plc

Times journalist defeats MB Freeholds and RMG over insurance dispute

Category: Insurance, Latest News, News, PressTag: Albion Court, Ben Ogunby, Insurance, Leasehold Advisory Service, Mark Hawthorn, Mark Hawthornthwaite, MB Freeholds Limited, Mike Atherton, RMG, The Times

Financial Ombudsman urged to look into leasehold insurance scams

Category: Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: Financial Ombudsman, Insurance scams, Jim Fitzpatrick, Sir Peter Bottomley

Leasehold flood risks and how to make 4.1 million homes disappear …

Category: Insurance, NewsTag: Flood Re

LKP urges minister to include leaseholders in Flood Re insurance plan

Category: Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: BPF, British Property Federation, Dan Rogerson, DEFRA, Flood Re, Ian Fletcher, Martin Boyd

Leasehold left out of government Flood Re insurance scheme

Category: ARMA, FPRA, Insurance, NewsTag: ABI, ARMA, BPF, DEFRA, Flood Re

Survey on leasehold flood insurance

Category: Insurance, NewsTag: Flood Re

Homeowner in Kingston gets £6,000 leasehold insurance premium, with an £10,000 excess if he is flooded

Category: Insurance, NewsTag: Ann Treneman

Leasehold owners excluded from government’s flood insurance plan, Flood Re

Category: Insurance, News

Been ripped off over leasehold insurance? Take your complaint to the secret ombudsman, says Peverel

Category: FirstPort, Insurance, News, Property tribunalTag: Janet, Peverel, Property tribunal

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