ARMA

FirstPort jacks up accounting fees at St David’s Square by 80% … and then bodges accounts, leaving leaseholders overcharged by more than £17,500

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

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

Settlers Court: for the first time the Supreme Court considers right to manage. The result? Leaseholders get a battering over communal area management

Two ex-employees of ABC Estates fail to stop Richard Davidoff defamation action over critical Google reviews with fake names (and ‘face £36,000 costs so far’)

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

Richard Davidoff, of ABC Estates, ‘breached his fiduciary duties’ after disastrous performance as a court-appointed manager, rules property tribunal

RICS dreams up another feeble ‘code of practice’, as Lord Best’s statutory regulator of property managers falls victim to Covid

Bankruptcies for leaseholders and billions entrusted to freeholders and their managers, APPG told

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

ARMA becomes a lobbyist for freeholders

Self-interested freeholders and property managers chorus: ‘taxpayer must pay over cladding’ … which, as it happens, leaves their income streams untouched

Dame Judith Hackitt’s uninterest in leasehold tenure is like ‘wanting to build cars with no idea how they are driven’, says LKP

Property tribunal judge chairs sector-driven code of practice review that is boycotted by leaseholders

Sector says ‘no, thanks’ to controversial Building Safety Bill

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

Land Registry publishes new data on leasehold and fleecehold deals to help buyers and nudge Rightmove

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

Insiders carve up code of practice for property managers – having been silent on systemic abuses for years!

Barking Riverside fire survivors round on secretive freeholder Adriatic Land, reports BBC R4

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

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

Welsh policymakers back monetary ground rents while pondering ‘compulsory commonhold’

Victoria Derbyshire Show reports the toll of leasehold miseries on mental health

Anonymous freeholders are the reliable long-term custodians of blocks of flats, Select Committee is told

ARMA pleads to be on Lord Best’s regulatory working group. It should be. And so should LKP …

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?