IRPM

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

New Estate Management thrown out of Property Ombudsman for not paying £1,000 award

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

Richard Davidoff of ABC Estates expelled from IRPM

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

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

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

Martin Paine resigns from IRPM after leaseholder complaint

Leasehold needs to be reformed, BBC Money Box Live is told

Shouldn’t the IRPM have slightly more respect for leaseholders than this?

Can this possibly be good news?

Competition and Markets Authority issues update on leasehold study

MPs call for all-party group on leasehold, and to stop right to manage being thwarted

Fraudster managing agent gets 30 months jail for using East Londoners’ cash to fund high life in Chelsea

Rogue managing agent, who stole £122,000, claimed to be MIRPM qualified … and helped colleagues pass the exams

January news archive