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FirstPort Retirement is allowed into ARMA

February 2, 2018 By admin

The controversial FirstPort Retirement managing agent has been admitted into the Association of Residential Managing Agents FirstPort, formerly Peverel, was responsible for systematically cheating pensioners in retirement sites which resulted in an Office of Fair Trading ruling of bid rigging in December 2014. The scandal involved its subsidiary Cirrus competing for expensive electronic door entry […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, Peverel, Peverel Cirrus story so far, Retirement Tagged With: ARMA, Cirrus, FirstPort, Peverel Retirement, Retirement

Pensioners ‘turn to old Peverel politburo at Freemont Property Managers for right to manage’

July 23, 2016 By admin

Pensioners at two Stonewater housing association retirement sites are said to be seeking right to manage using Freemont Property Managers – the company founded by ex-Peverel politburo members. Some held senior positions in the company when Peverel’s subsidiary Cirrus was systematically cheating pensioners in a price fixing racket that was busted by the Office of […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, Peverel, Peverel Cirrus story so far Tagged With: Chris Skidmore MP, Cirrus, Freemont Property Managers, Keith Edgar, Nigel Bannister, Peverel, Robert Syms MP

ARMA regulator’s sanctions against FirstPort ‘did not address seriousness of what took place’

June 28, 2016 By admin

The admonition delivered to FirstPort for attempting to sell off house managers’ flats has not satisfied complainant Alex Ellison. “I am, of course, pleased that you upheld my complaint and that you have imposed disciplinary sanctions on FirstPort,” she has written to the ARMA regulator Keith Hill. “… However, disciplinary sanctions alone do not seem to adequately […]

Filed Under: ARMA, ARMA-Q, Latest News, News, Peverel, Peverel Cirrus story so far Tagged With: Alex Ellison, ARMA, ARMA-Q, Keith Hill, Mere Court, Nigel Howell

ARMA rules against FirstPort Retirement …

June 22, 2016 By admin

Humiliating criticism of the troubled property manager, but the path is now clear for it to apply for membership of the trade body The regulator of the Association of Residential Managing Agents (ARMA) has admonished on two counts Peverel / FirstPort Retirement, which was applying to join the organisation. But the decision means the controversial […]

Filed Under: ARMA, Find MP ... and see how many leasehold voters, Latest News, News, Peverel, Peverel Cirrus story so far, Retirement Tagged With: ARMA, ARMA-Q, Hillside Court, Keith Hill, Mere Court, Retirement, Sir Peter Bottomley

Peverel Retirement up before the ARMA regulator before it can join ARMA-Q

January 15, 2015 By admin

A complaint about Peverel Retirement is being considered by ARMA regulator Keith Hill even before the trade body rules on whether it meets the criteria of ARMA-Q. The complaint comes from Alex Ellison, whose mother lives in Mere Court, in Knutsford, Cheshire. It concerns Peverel’s ownership and disposal of house managers’ flats.

Filed Under: ARMA, ARMA-Q, House managers flat, Latest News, News, Peverel, Peverel Cirrus story so far, Retirement Tagged With: Alex Ellison, Anchor, ARHM, ARMA, ARMA-Q, FirstPort, Hanover, Jim Fitzpatrick, Keith Hill, Martin Boyd, Mere Court, Michelle Banks, Peverel, Retirement, Sir Peter Bottomley

Cooee! Peverel becomes FirstPort and heading for ARMA-Q … But will it be welcome?

December 5, 2014 By admin

Like the unwanted guest at a party, Peverel has put on some outlandish new clothes and now seeks to crash ARMA-Q. It is rolling out its new FirstPort brand, which means when you click on the Peverel website you are passed on to a new site. The change in name is taking place a year […]

Filed Under: ARMA, Latest News, News, OFT / CMA, Peverel, Peverel Cirrus story so far Tagged With: ARMA-Q, Cirrus, FirstPort, Freemont Property Management, Nigel Bannister, Peverel

No change over Cirrus retirement scam, says Entwistle, although Peverel leaves an open goal for compo claims

December 2, 2014 By admin

Janet Entwistle, the chief executive of Peverel (soon to be reborn as FirstPort), has ruled out mediation with retirement residents scammed in the Cirrus collusive tendering scandal. Any “unhappy individuals” should make a complaint directly to her, she says in minutes of a meeting with Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation on October 10. Having orchestrated […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, Peverel, Peverel Cirrus story so far, Retirement, Sir Peter Bottomley Tagged With: Andy Davey, Janet Entwistle, Owens Installations, Retirement, Sir Peter

Less ‘legal torture’ and more happiness in leasehold, says Sir Peter Bottomley

October 9, 2014 By admin

Sir Peter Bottomley made another strong speech over leasehold issues today at the Chartered Institute of Housing meeting in Crawley. It was titled “Less legal torture and more happiness in leasehold”. “All cases of forfeiture should be reported to the Master of the Rolls, who heads the civil courts,” said the MP, who along with […]

Filed Under: Commonhold, Latest News, News, Peverel, Peverel Cirrus story so far, Sir Peter Bottomley, Video Tagged With: Benjamin Mire, Chartered Institute of Housing, Commonhold, Dennis Jackson, Federation of Private Residents Associations, forfeiture, LEASE, Master of the Rolls, Sir Peter Bottomley

Ex-Peverel politburo set up Freemont Property Management

September 8, 2014 By admin

Former leading executives of Peverel have set up a new company, Freemont Property Management. Headed by former Peverel CEO Nigel Bannister and former head of Peverel Retirement Keith Edgar, the company is registered to an office in Lymington in Hampshire. It has already secured the management of the large Aqua site on the waterfront in Poole, Dorset.

Filed Under: Latest News, News, Peverel, Peverel Cirrus story so far, Press, Slider2 Tagged With: Aqua, Freemont Property Management, Keith Edgar, Kevin Barr, Nigel Bannister, Peter Cummings, Peverel

Janet Entwistle says no current Peverel staff ‘linked’ to Cirrus scam

September 8, 2014 By admin

Janet Entwistle, the Peverel CEO, assured LKP earlier this year that no one involved directly – or even “linked” – in the Cirrus price-fixing scam was still employed by the company. Janet Entwistle’s was speaking at a meeting with LKP at the Commons on February 10, hosted by Sir Peter Bottomley. She is recorded in […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, Parliament, Peverel, Peverel Cirrus story so far, Sir Peter Bottomley Tagged With: Andy Davey, Cirrus, Janet Entwistle, Peverel, Sebastian O’Kelly, Sir Peter Bottomley

You cannot be Cirrus, says Private Eye

September 3, 2014 By admin

Satirical magazine reports OFT price-fixing stooge Glyn Jackson back at work at a Peverel managed site Private Eye today reports the LKP story of OFT price-fixing cheat Glyn Jackson being re-employed at a Peverel site. Jackson, whose company went into liquidation and so avoided an OFT fine of £35,700, is back at work at the […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, OFT / CMA, Peverel, Peverel Cirrus story so far, Press, Sir Peter Bottomley Tagged With: Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation, Cirrus, Glyn Jackson, Owens Installations, Peter O’Rourke Electrical, Peverel, Private Eye, Sir Peter Bottomley

Peverel Cirrus price-fixing stooge says sorry …

September 2, 2014 By admin

The owner of one of the three stooge companies that helped Peverel’s subsidiary Cirrus wrongly win lucrative contracts at retirement sites deeply regrets his involvement in the scam. Jeremy Owen, 38, of Owens Installations, says he got caught up in the Cirrus scandal because he was young and naïve and wishes he could “turn the […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, OFT / CMA, Peverel, Peverel Cirrus story so far, Sir Peter Bottomley Tagged With: Cirrus, Ed Davey, Glyn Jackson, Glyn Jackson Communications, Jeremy Owen, OFT, Owens Installations, Peter O’Rourke Electrical, Peverel, Sir Peter Bottomley

Ripped-off pensioners, betrayed Campaign against Residential Leasehold Exploitation whistleblowers, four-year tokenistic OFT inquiry, cost: £500,000, craven trade bodies, Cirrus unpunished, stooges go into ‘liquidation’ … one minnow fined £1,777

August 21, 2014 By admin

– 2005 to 2009 Peverel cheats pensioners at 65 site by installing Cirrus equipment through bogus tendering – Campaign against Residential Leasehold Exploitation alerts police, SFO and OFT, and The Times publishes article on December 4 2009 – But Office of Fair Trading gives Peverel “leniency” for turning itself in at some point in December […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, Peverel, Peverel Cirrus story so far, Sir Peter Bottomley Tagged With: Cirrus, Glyn Jackson, Peverel, SFO

OFT price-fixing cheat Glyn Jackson is back at Peverel sites

August 21, 2014 By admin

Eight months after the Office of Fair Trading revealed the Cirrus collusive tendering scandal, scamming contractor Glyn Jackson is again working on retirement sites managed by Peverel. Glyn Jackson, whose company did not pay an OFT fine of £35,700 after going into liquidation,, is this week installing similar electronic systems with a new company at the Adelphi retirement site […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, Peverel, Peverel Cirrus story so far, Sir Peter Bottomley Tagged With: Andy Davey, Cirrus, Glyn Jackson, Nigel Bannister, O'Rourke Electrical Limited, Owens Installations Limited, Sir Peter Bottomley

ARHM’s pathetic response to the Peverel / Cirrus scandal

August 1, 2014 By admin

… while “under review”, Cirrus sponsors the ARHM summer conference and is doled out generous contracts In the club: Richard Wheeldon, ARHM vice chair, part of the Cirrus review team and an executive of Housing and Care 21 housing association. It handed out a bumper contract to Cirrus in February, two months after the OFT found […]

Filed Under: ARHM, Latest News, News, Peverel, Peverel Cirrus story so far Tagged With: Andy Davey, ARHM, Cirrus, Peverel, Richard Wheeldon

Nine months in the making: ARHM rules on Peverel / Cirrus scandal

July 31, 2014 By admin

ARHM STATEMENT INTO PEVEREL PRICE FIXING / COLLUSION FOLLOWING INVESTIGATION BY FORMER OFT. Starts The ARHM Audit and Regulation Committee has been working with Peverel to review the outcome of the OFT investigation into collusive tendering in relation to the supply and installation of certain access and alarm systems to retirement properties. This collusive practice […]

Filed Under: ARHM, Latest News, News, Peverel, Peverel Cirrus story so far Tagged With: ARHM, Cirrus, Paul Silk, Peverel

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Commons debate, July 11 2019 Bob Blackman, the Conservative MP for Harrow West, claims the government is prevaricating over leasehold reform. It notes what the Communities Select Committee, of which Mr Blackman is a member, has unearthed but “there has been no commitment to actrion”. “The Government are leaning on the fact that the Law […]

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Bellway is second developer to face public protest over leasehold cheating

Bellway is the latest developer to have a public demonstration against leasehold houses on its doorstep. Protestors from the National Leasehold Campaign Facebook group, led by Katie Kendrick and Cath Williams (pictured above) are protesting today outside Bellway’s King’s Hill site in Bromborough, The Wirral, in Cheshire. The demo follows that in March outside Redrow’s […]

BBC R4 Today programme hears of ‘venal, greedy housebuilders’ playing the angles of leasehold

The influential BBC R4 Today programme this morning devoted five minutes discussing the ground rents housing crisis. It can heard here at 2:32 It featured a report of leasehold house owners in Clitheroe, Lancashire, who had bought their properties from Taylor Wimpey. Leaseholder Andrew Henderson told the programme that the ground rents doubled every ten […]

98% of rip-off lease sales broke consumer protection rules, says Conveyancing Association

The Conveyancing Association claims that 98% of sales of properties with onerous or doubling ground rents broke consumer protection rules. Only 2% of purchasers received information prior to viewing a property, according to a survey carried out with the help of the National Leasehold Campaign and the Home Owners’ Alliance. The Conveyancing Association has reported […]

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Cladding crisis reveals why freeholders are an impediment to any solution

The disaster of flammable cladding on blocks of flats and what to do about it is providing the biggest push to transform leasehold law since the eruption of the doubling ground rent scandal which we exposed in 2016. The question being asked is: what is the third-party freehold owning landlord actually for? For ground rent […]

Ground rent speculators Pemberstone seek £3m tribunal ruling over Grenfell cladding

Another ground rent speculator, the Pemberstone Group, is seeking a tribunal ruling to dump Grenfell cladding costs on 300 leaseholders at two Manchester sites, reports The Independent today. The two sites are Cypress Place and Vallea Court in the so-called “Green Quarter” of the city. The sites were built by Australian builder Lendlease but the […]

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Has Brokenshire trashed Sajid Javid’s reforms of leasehold?

  October 14 2018 UPDATE: On January 29 2019 Communities Secretary James Brokenshire held a round table with leaseholder groups, assuring them that zero ground rents were on the table. Sebastian O’Kelly, of LKP and www.BetterRetirementHousing.com, argued for retirement housing also to lose its exemption from any ground rent ban.  This week we should have […]

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Martin Paine sells on Blythe Court, where ground rents reach £8,000 a year

Martin Paine and his wife Anne Kirmond have spent years as landlord causing distress to the leaseholds at Blythe Court and many other sites. LKP first broke the story of the Panie’s ground rent exploits in January 2016 despite warning letters from solicitors Taylor Emmet LLP. https://www.leaseholdknowledge.com/martin-paine Since this story, we have covered the activities […]

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