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FirstPort

Mr Spender goes to war over St David’s Square service charges … and landlord caves in over more than £100,000 buildings insurance commissions on eve of tribunal

Category: FirstPort, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Berkeley, Countryside Contracts, FirstPort, FIT Nominee 2 Limited, FIT Nominee Limited, JB Leitch, Liam Spender, NatWest Group plc, RBS, St David's Square

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

St David's Square

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

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: Alpha Real Capital LLP, ARC Time Freehold Income, ARMA, BDO, Berkeley St George, Building safety fund, Consensus Business Group, Countryside Communications, FirstPort, Freehold Managers, IRPM, JB Leitch, Mick Platt, Residential Freehold Association, St David's Square, Wallace Partnership Group, William Kenneth Procter

French resi service group Emeria clears out FirstPort management in take-over

Category: Latest News, News, TchenguizTag: Caoimhe McKearney, E&M Estates, Emperia, FirstPort, Freehold Managers, JB Leitch, Mick Platt, Nigel Howell, Residential Freehold Association, Simon Allison, St David's Square, Tchenguiz Family Trust, Vincent Tchenguiz

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

Category: Latest News, News, Property tribunalTag: Amanda Gourlay, ARMA, FirstPort, Harry Scoffin, Justin Bates, Kimberley Ziya, Landmark Chambers, Mark Loveday, Nigel Glen, Settlers Court, Simon Allison, Virginia Quay

LKP accredited managing agent Premier Block Management ‘opens Pandora’s box’ by inviting critical social media reviews

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: Ballymore, Ballymore Asset Management, Feefo, FirstPort, Harry Scoffin, National Leasehold Campaign, PBM, Premier Property Management

St David's Square

FirstPort faces leasehold rebellion over service charges at St David’s Square

Category: FirstPort, Latest News, News, Press, Property tribunalTag: Aaron Walder, FirstPort, JB Leitch, Liam Spender, MailOnline, Myra Butterworth, St David's Square

Freemont

FirstPort buys up Freemont: the property management firm set up by its ousted Politburo

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, FirstPort, Latest News, News, Peverel Cirrus story so farTag: Cirrus, FirstPort, Freemont Property Management, Keith Edgar, Kevin Barr, Nigel Bannister, Nigel Howell, OFT

FirstPort charges leaseholders 33% commission on temporary staff recruitment

Category: FirstPort, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Equistone, FirstPort, Liam Spender, Nigel Howell, Ouda Saleh, Paul Lester, St David's Square

St David's Square

Fees come first for FirstPort: leaseholders billed at least £39,000 for applications to the Building Safety Fund … And so it begins

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Building safety fund, David Young, DriveTopCo, Equistone, FirstPort, Liam Spender, Neil O'Connor, Nigel Howell, Ouda Saleh, Paul Lester, St David's Square

Cestrian Court

Pensioners in retirement housing face £150,000 fire safety bill, but McCarthy and Stone isn’t reponsible (nor is FirstPort, and NHBC hasn’t responded)

Category: Latest News, News, RetirementTag: Cestrian Court, Cladding scandal, FirstPort, McCarthy and Stone, NHBC

Citiscape £16m cladding bill

Barratt’s £15.8m bill at Citiscape … and £70m bill for all cladding sites

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Barratt, Citiscape, Cladding scandal, FirstPort

FirstPort Mainstay merge

FirstPort and Mainstay unite to create ‘monster’ management company controlling 275,000 flats

Category: FirstPort, Latest News, NewsTag: FirstPort, Mainstay, Retirement

FirstPort spy on Facebook

FirstPort ‘spy’ leaves company after infiltrating leaseholders’ group on Facebook

Category: FirstPort, Latest News, NewsTag: FirstPort

Battle for Canary Riverside resumes after court appointed manager steps down

Category: Canary Riverside, John Christodoulou, Latest News, News, West India QuayTag: 25% rule, Alan Coates, Bruce Ritchie, Canary Riverside, Canary Riverside Estate Management Limited, Circus Apartments Limited, David Marsden, Duncan Rendall, Felix Keen, FirstPort, John Christodoulou, Justin Bates, Marathon Estates, Mixed-use sites, Rendall and Rittner

FirstPort named twice in Commons today

Category: FirstPort, Latest News, NewsTag: FirstPort, Seems Malhotra MP

Huw Merriman calls for zero ground rents for retirement leasehold at prime minister’s questions

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: FirstPort, Huw Merriman MP, McCarthy and Stone, Theresa May

You need professional property managers to deal with fire safety in high-rises, says FirstPort CEO Nigel Howell

Category: APPG April 26 2018, Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: FirstPort, Nigel Howell

Tribunal rules Citiscape leaseholders must pay to remove Grenfell cladding. Will this mean some lose their homes?

Category: Latest News, News, TchenguizTag: Amanda Gourlay, Citiscape, Croydon, FirstPort, Grenfell cladding, Proxima GR Properties Limited, Tchenguiz Family Trust, Vincent Tchenguiz, Waking watch contracts

FirstPort Retirement is allowed into ARMA

Category: FirstPort, Latest News, News, Peverel Cirrus story so far, RetirementTag: ARMA, Cirrus, FirstPort, Peverel Retirement, Retirement

Tchenguiz / FirstPort in court to dump £2m Grenfell costs on Citiscape leaseholders – despite Sajid Javid plea

Category: Latest News, News, TchenguizTag: Chamonix, Citiscape, Electra, FirstPort, Heysmoor Heights, Proxima GR Properties Limited, Sajid Javid, Vincent Tchenguiz

Croydon leaseholders at Citiscape face £750,000 bill to remove Grenfell Tower cladding

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, TchenguizTag: Citiscape, FirstPort, Grenfell, Grenfell cladding, Tchenguiz Family Trust

FirstPort fined £360,000 over fatal fire at Gibson Court

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: FirstPort, Gibson Court

99% of FirstPort’s 3,800 service charge accounts are up to date

Category: FirstPort, Latest News, NewsTag: FirstPort, Nigel Howell

ARMA to rule on admitting scandal-hit FirstPort Retirement

Category: ARHM, ARMA, ARMA-Q, FirstPort, Latest News, News, RetirementTag: Alex Ellison, ARMA, Ash Court, Crown House, FirstPort, Homecombe House, Keith Hill, Mere Court, Nigel Howell, Retirement, Sondes Farm

80% of Londoners like living in a flat, even ones run by FirstPort

Category: FirstPort, Latest News, NewsTag: FirstPort, Nigel Howell, Peverel

FirstPort backs down over demanding £10,808 from leaseholder … and she is not staying silent either

Category: FirstPort, Latest News, NewsTag: FirstPort, Jacqueline Henderson, JB Leitch, Jonathan Astle, Phoenix House

BBC told Charity Commission should stop dawdling over recognition of LKP

Category: ARMA, ARMA-Q, Latest News, Law Commission, News, Press, Sir Peter BottomleyTag: ARMA, ARMA-Q, BlocNet, Bob Suvan, FirstPort, Michelle Banks, No.1 Deansgate, OM, Sir Peter Bottomley, Stec, Steve Birkbeck

ARMA ends four-month farce after finally saying who its members are …

Category: ARHM, ARMA, ARMA-Q, FirstPort, Latest News, NewsTag: ARHM, ARMA, ARMA-Q, FirstPort, Keith Hill, Michelle Banks, Peverel, Stonedale, Walton &Allen

Peverel / FirstPort pays back £39,377 wrongly taken from Hillside Court, but the pensioners say another £3,498 is missing

Category: FirstPort, HomeSlider, Latest News, NewsTag: FirstPort, Hillside Court, Peverel

Peverel / FirstPort paid ‘£40,000′ of residents’ contingency fund money to Mr Tchenguiz ‘by mistake’

Category: Exit fees, FirstPort, Latest News, News, TchenguizTag: Consensus Business Group, FirstPort, Hillside Court, Law Commission, Louise Smith, Peverel, Rosie Cooper MP, Stephen Lewis, Tchenguiz

Janet Entwistle stands down at Peverel …

Category: FirstPort, Latest News, NewsTag: FirstPort, Janet Entwistle, Peverel, Tchenguiz, Tchenguiz Family Trust, Vincent Tchenguiz

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

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

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