FirstPort

Black Friday for FirstPort: ALL leaseholders at St David’s Square to share £479,000 service charge triumph. And £55,000 in energy subsidies to be paid up

We just made it up: landlord pays back £120,000 for intercom costs at St David’s Square that it cannot account for (and is leased for eternity)

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

Victory over FirstPort at St David’s Square with £100,000s to be re-payed to leaseholders over insurance and leasing of ancient door entry system

FirstPort blows a fuse: Why are energy subsidies absent from the £265,784 electricity bills – an increase of 154% – at St David’s Square, tribunal is asked

Dismal picture of leasehold emerges from MPs’ debate. But no government commitment on reforms

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FirstPort charges leaseholders 33% commission on temporary staff recruitment

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

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)

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

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

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

Battle for Canary Riverside resumes after court appointed manager steps down

FirstPort named twice in Commons today

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

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

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

FirstPort Retirement is allowed into ARMA

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

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

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

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

ARMA to rule on admitting scandal-hit FirstPort Retirement

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

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