Retirement

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

Rip-off retirement leasehold fees give Corrie’s Ken Barlow a feast of plot lines. Let’s hope he leads a right to manage rebellion …

Corrie’s Ken Barlow warned against buying ‘red flags’ leasehold flat on upmarket retirement site

Retirement housebuilders will only reform when they are forced to do so, Lord Best tells property conference

Your Housing Group shared equity retirement flat sells for £39,129.26, after three years on the market

Did government cop-out on retirement ground rents stuff new thinking in the sector?

APPG July 11: Robust debate over retirement ground rents and event fees

Please exempt retirement housebuilders from ground rent ban, pleads Sir Desmond Swayne

McCarthy and Stone: Ground rents are not the future of retirement housing

FirstPort Retirement is allowed into ARMA

Sebastian O’Kelly addresses retirement property managers. Were you lynched? No, they agreed: leasehold ‘granny flats’ have no future

BetterRetirementHousing.com reports retirement resale disasters. On BBCR4 MoneyBox today

Pensioners hammered with 88% rise in ground rents, says Better Retirement Housing

My granny’s Audley Retirement home ‘was a money pit’ costing £48,000 in exit fees

Housing minister urges transparency over retirement exit fees

Right to manage woes at Elim and Regent Courts retirement sites

The Times: ‘Exit fees and poor resale values: the uncomfortable truth about retirement homes’

Campaign against Residential Leasehold Exploitation reveals abysmal retirement housing re-sale values

ARMA rules against FirstPort Retirement …

Retirement housebuilder hands £7m of freeholds to the leaseholders

ARMA to rule on admitting scandal-hit FirstPort Retirement

Cherry Trees retirement flat hit by £9,341 sinking fund exit fee ..

Metcalfe Court: how a retirement site has benefited from RTM

Should you buy a leasehold retirement flat, asks Telegraph

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

No change over Cirrus retirement scam, says Entwistle, although Peverel leaves an open goal for compo claims

LKP managing agent Jones Associates wins right to manage for retirement site

Will Lord Best’s proposals produce a healthy retirement housing market …

If Peverel Retirement is admitted to ARMA-Q, what message does that send thousands of cheated pensioners?

Retirement site loses right to manage appeal after three years. Now what’s the cost?

Hanover has sold 21 retirement house manager flats

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

AgeUK removes its logos from the Peverel Retirement website