OFT

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

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

An open letter to Robert Jenrick: the costs of delayed leasehold reform

AgeUK echoes Campaign against Residential Leasehold Exploitation in demanding retirement housing reform

Peverel Cirrus price-fixing stooge says sorry …

DCLG leasehold team issues raft of improvements

Competition and Markets Authority issues update on leasehold study

You and Yours features Campaign against Residential Leasehold Exploitation and OFT inquiry into leasehold management

Daily Mail reports OFT inquiry into leasehold management

Times reports inquiry into dodgy freeholders

OFT leasehold management inquiry includes housing associations and council properties – and will report in September

Campaign against Residential Leasehold Exploitation whistleblowers were THREATENED with prosecution if they went public over OFT’s toothless £500k investigation into Peverel-Cirrus

Peverel cheated pensioners in £1.4 million tenders at 65 sites, says OFT

LKP gets full investigation into leasehold management by the Office of Fair Trading

OFT will report on the Peverel / Cirrus price-fixing scandal on Friday

The Oldie reports Peverel / Cirrus price-fixing scandal

Davey and Bottomley quiz OFT over its leniency deal with Peverel over the Cirrus price-fixing scam

Bottomley: ‘possible criminal behaviour involving Peverel’ over tendering scams

Fury as OFT may give Peverel immunity over Cirrus price-fixing scandal

Panic at prostitutes results in £912 sub-letting fee demand

£912 sub-letting fee demanded at Kensington’s Troy Court – after prostitutes moved in

Anchor Trust upsets retirement residents by allowing sub-letting – where the lease prohibits it

OFT cuts deal with Tchenguiz on leasehold retirement sub-letting fees, but exit fees on sale still stand

OFT to make ‘substantive announcement’ on exit fees in August

Attack on OFT over exit fees

February news archive (headlines)