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

Category: Insurance, Latest News, NewsTag: Andrea Coscelli, ARMA, Bob Blackman MP, Clive Briualt, CMA, FCA, Federation of Private Residents Associations, ICOBS, Insurance scams, Insurance Times, John McDonnell, John Prescott, LEASE, Leasehold Advisory Service, Lord Newby, Martin Boyd, Matt Brewis, Michael Gove, OFT, Rabina Khan, Sarah Olney MP, Sir Peter Bottomley

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

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

Category: Cladding scandal, Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, Housing associations, Latest News, Law Commission, Local authority leasehold, MHCLG, NewsTag: Cladding scandal, CMA, DCLG, Eric Pickles, Florrie's law, Grant Shapps, Housing associations, James Brokenshire MP, Law Commission, LEASE, Major works, Martin Boyd, MHCLG, Notting Hill Genesis, OFT, Robert Jenrick, Sajid Javid, Section 20, Shared ownership

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

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, News, RetirementTag: AgeUK, Campaign for Housing in Later Life, CMA, Joe Oldman, McCarthy and Stone, OFT, Retirement

Peverel Cirrus price-fixing stooge says sorry …

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, FirstPort, News, Peverel Cirrus story so far, Sir Peter BottomleyTag: Cirrus, Glyn Jackson, Glyn Jackson Communications, Jeremy Owen, OFT, Owens Installations, Peter O’Rourke Electrical, Peverel, Sir Ed Davey, Sir Peter Bottomley

DCLG leasehold team issues raft of improvements

Category: News, West India QuayTag: DCLG, Eric Pickles, exit fees, Florence Bourne, McCarthy and Stone, OFT, Susan Wood, Tchenguiz, West India Quay

Competition and Markets Authority issues update on leasehold study

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, NewsTag: CMA, IRPM, Jeff Platt, Michelle Banks, OFT, Rachel Merelie

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

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, FirstPort, McCarthy and Stone, News, Peverel Cirrus story so far, PressTag: BBC R4 You and Yours, Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation, Competition and Markets Authority, Douglas Cooper, McCarthy and Stone, OFT, Sebastian O’Kelly, Susan Wood, Trust Property Management

Daily Mail reports OFT inquiry into leasehold management

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, News, PressTag: CMA, Daily Mail, OFT

Times reports inquiry into dodgy freeholders

Category: News, PressTag: OFT, The Times

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

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, Housing associations, NewsTag: CMA, Housing associations, Local authority leasehold, OFT

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

Category: FirstPort, News, Peverel Cirrus story so far, Sir Peter BottomleyTag: Andrew Groves, OFT, Susan Wood

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

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, FirstPort, HomeSlider, News, Peverel Cirrus story so far, Press, Sir Peter Bottomley, Slider PostsTag: Cirrus, OFT, Peverel, SFO, Sir Peter Bottomley

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

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, NewsTag: Commonhold, OFT

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

Category: FirstPort, NewsTag: Cirrus, OFT, Peverel, SFO

The Oldie reports Peverel / Cirrus price-fixing scandal

Category: FirstPort, News, Peverel Cirrus story so far, Press, Sir Peter BottomleyTag: Cirrus, OFT, Peverel, Sir Ed Davey, Sir Peter Bottomley, The Oldie

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

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, FirstPort, News, Parliament, Peverel Cirrus story so far, Sir Peter BottomleyTag: Cirrus, OFT, Peverel, SFO, Sir Ed Davey, Sir Peter Bottomley

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

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, FirstPort, News, Peverel Cirrus story so far, Press, Sir Peter Bottomley, Slider PostsTag: Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation, Cirrus, Glyn Jackson, Nigel Bannister, OFT, Peverel, Sir Ed Davey, Sir Peter Bottomley

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

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, FirstPort, NewsTag: Cirrus, Glyn Jackson Communications, Ken Kilmister, OFT, Owen Installations, Peter O’Rourke Electrical, Peverel, Susan Wood

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

Category: HomeSlider, Prostitutes, Slider Posts, SublettingTag: Blenheims, Julian Harper-Brown, OFT, Prostitutes, subletting, Troy Court

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

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, News, Prostitutes, SublettingTag: Ashfords LLP, Blenheims, Julian Harper-Brown, OFT, Prostitutes, subletting, Taylor Wessing, Troy Court

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

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, Housing associations, News, SublettingTag: Abigail Poole, Anchor, Anchor Trust, Bicester House, Housing Ombudsman, Hyett Orchard, Jane Ashcroft, John Belcher, Mail on Sunday, OFT, Woodville Grove

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

Category: Exit fees, News, TchenguizTag: exit fees, OFT, Vincent Tchenguiz

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

Category: Exit fees, NewsTag: exit fees, OFT

Attack on OFT over exit fees

Category: Exit fees, Hanover, NewsTag: Bruce Moore, exit fees, Hanover, OFT

February news archive (headlines)

Category: Hanover, NewsTag: Chainbow, OFT, Trinity

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