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St David's Square

Spender wards off attempt to frustrate his appeal over £590,000 ‘contract for eternity’ intercom systems

Category: Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: FirstPort, Liam Spender, St David's Square

Leaseholders’ victory over ‘contracts for eternity’ is overturned by Upper Tribunal

Category: Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: FirstPort, FIT Nominee 2 Limited, FIT Nominee Limited, St David's Square

MPs aghast at Liam Spender’s account of being a leaseholder litigant. It is like ‘being a laboratory animal in a maze controlled by freehold-owning landlords and their enablers’

Category: FirstPort, HomeSlider, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Anthony Browne MP, ARMA, Baroness Ilora Finlay, FirstPort, FIT Nominee 2 Limited, FIT Nominee Limited, Helen Morgan MP, Justin Madders MP, Liam Spender, Lord Best, Mike Amesbury MP, NatWest Group plc, Rachel Maclean MP, Sir Julian Lewis MP, Sir Peter Bottomley, St David's Square

War of attrition: FirstPort appeals St David’s Square leaseholder victory (after telling leaseholders everyone would be sharing in the win)

Category: FirstPort, HomeSlider, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: ARC Time Freehold Income, Berkeley, Countryside Communications, Emeria, FirstPort, FIT Nominee Limited, Kully Sahdra, Liam Spender, NatWest Group plc, Simon Allison, St David's Square

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

Category: FirstPort, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Emeria, FirstPort, Kully Sahdra, Liam Spender, St David's Square

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)

Category: FirstPort, JB Leitch, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Countryside Communications, First-tier Tribunal, FirstPort, FIT Nominee 2 Limited, FIT Nominee Limited, JB Leitch, Liam Spender, NatWest Group plc, St David's Square

St David's Square

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

Category: FirstPort, Latest News, Liam Spender, News, Property tribunalTag: FirstPort, Liam Spender, St David's Square

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

Category: FirstPort, Latest News, News, Property tribunalTag: Energy Bill Relief Scheme, FirstPort, JB Leitch, Judge Vance, Kully Sahdra, Liam Spender, Miriam Seifert, St David's Square

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

Category: FirstPort, JB Leitch, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Berkeley, Countryside Contracts, FirstPort, FIT Nominee 2 Limited, FIT Nominee Limited, JB Leitch, Liam Spender, NatWest Group plc, RBS, St David's Square

St David's Square

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

Category: JB Leitch, Latest News, NewsTag: Alpha Real Capital LLP, ARC Time Freehold Income, ARMA, BDO, Berkeley St George, Building safety fund, Consensus Business Group, Countryside Communications, FirstPort, Freehold Managers, IRPM, JB Leitch, Mick Platt, Residential Freehold Association, St David's Square, Wallace Partnership Group, William Kenneth Procter

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

Category: FirstPort, Latest News, News, TchenguizTag: Caoimhe McKearney, E&M Estates, Emeria, FirstPort, Freehold Managers, JB Leitch, Mick Platt, Nigel Howell, Residential Freehold Association, Simon Allison, St David's Square, Tchenguiz Family Trust, Vincent Tchenguiz

St David's Square

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

Category: FirstPort, JB Leitch, Latest News, News, Press, Property tribunalTag: Aaron Walder, FirstPort, JB Leitch, Liam Spender, MailOnline, Myra Butterworth, St David's Square

FirstPort charges leaseholders 33% commission on temporary staff recruitment

Category: FirstPort, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Equistone, FirstPort, Liam Spender, Nigel Howell, Ouda Saleh, Paul Lester, St David's Square

St David's Square

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

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Building safety fund, David Young, DriveTopCo, Equistone, FirstPort, Liam Spender, Neil O'Connor, Nigel Howell, Ouda Saleh, Paul Lester, St David's Square

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