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Ruling blasts Israel Moskovitz’s lawyers for ‘wasting tribunal time’ in legal warfare that is ‘part of a pattern’, as RTM gains control of £69,000 funds

November 15, 2019 By Admin3 5 Comments

By Harry Scoffin Controversial freeholder Israel Moskovitz and his legal team were reprimanded in the property tribunal last month for failing to hand over £69,633.72 to a right to manage company. Bridge Court South RTM, 24-flats in Leyton, north-east London, won back half the contingency fund from the control of Mr Moskovitz’s manager Y and Y […]

Filed Under: Israel Moskovitz, Justin Bates, Latest News, News, Slider2 Tagged With: Israel Moskovitz, Justin Bates, Reserve fund, right to manage, Y and Y Management

Tribunal tells freeholder Israel Moskovitz to drop the ‘nonsense’ to frustrate right to manage

November 21, 2018 By Admin3

By Harry Scoffin London freeholder Israel Moskovitz has suffered a humiliating defeat in tribunal failing to stop 24-flat Bridge Court South, in Leyton north-east London, from exercising right to manage. In a sharply worded ruling, the tribunal told the freeholder he was to drop the “nonsense” of “putting up obstacles without any genuine foundation” to […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, RTM Tagged With: Israel Moskovitz, Joseph Gurvits, Triplerose, Y and Y Management

Israel Moskovitz loses epic Elim Court right to manage battle in landmark Court of Appeal decision

February 24, 2017 By admin

Elim Court, a retirement site in Plymouth, learned today that it had won its epic battle for right to manage in the Court of Appeal against its landlord Israel Moskovitz. His Avon Freeholds Limited managed the site through Y and Y Management, run by business associate Joseph Gurvits. Y and Y is a management company […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, RTM Tagged With: Court of Appeal, Dudley Joiner, Elim Court, Israel Moskovitz, James Driscoll, Joseph Gurvits, Justin Bates, Lord Justice Lewison, right to manage, Right To Manage Federation, Y and Y Management

ARMA membership … Find out on Twitter!

January 20, 2015 By admin

In piecemeal fashion, ARMA is announcing companies that have signed-up to the new regulatory regime ARMA-Q on Twitter. These are the new criteria for membership of the trade body. The decision marks an abrupt reversal of a decision last week by Michelle Banks, the CEO, to announce the accredited companies in February once all applications […]

Filed Under: ARMA, ARMA-Q, Latest News, News Tagged With: ARMA, ARMA-Q, Countrywide, Countrywide Estate Management, Michelle Banks, Y and Y Management

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

October 11, 2014 By admin

Residents not informed of court decision of a month ago What are the freeholder’s legal costs? Right To Manage Federation has said it would pay Elim Court’s battle to break free of London freeholder Israel Moskovitz and his associate Joseph Gurvits has failed on appeal to the Upper Tribunal. The ruling on the right to […]

Filed Under: Gurvits, Israel Moskovitz, Latest News, News, Retirement, Right To Manage Federation, RTM Tagged With: 369 Upland Road RTM Company Limited, Avon Freeholds, Canadian Avenue RTM Company Limited, Dudley Joiner, Elim Court, Farnborough Road (Brand House) RTM Co Limited, Farnborough Road (Calloway House) RTM Co Limited, Israel Moskovitz, Joseph Gurvits, Justin Bates, Keith Phillips, Margarita Madjirska-Mossop, Martin Rodger QC, Retirement, right to manage, Right To Manage Federation, Y and Y Management

ARMA tells Y and Y Management to mind its manners and control its temper

June 28, 2014 By admin

ARMA’s regulatory panel announced on Friday June 27 that it had admonished Y and Y Management following a complaint over “intemperate and unprofessional language” to a leaseholder who visited its north London offices. A letter of admonishment has been sent to the company, headed by Joseph Gurvits, whose business partner is freeholder Israel Moskovitz. Both have […]

Filed Under: ARMA, Gurvits, Israel Moskovitz, Latest News, Moskovitz / Gurvits, News, Sir Peter Bottomley Tagged With: ARMA, Israel Moskovitz, Joseph Gurvits, Keith Hill, Y and Y Management

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

March 14, 2014 By admin

The Westminster meeting on Tuesday March 11 on right to manage organized by Leasehold Knowledge Partnership / Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation saw an all-party group on leasehold becoming more likely. The move would certainly be backed by Sir Peter Bottomley, Conservative Swindon MPs Justin Tomlinson and Robert Buckland, as well as Jim Fitzpatrick, Labour […]

Filed Under: Gurvits, IRPM, Israel Moskovitz, Justin Bates, Moskovitz / Gurvits, News, Parliament, RTM, Sir Peter Bottomley, Tchenguiz Tagged With: ARHM, ARMA, Baroness Gardner, Cherry Jones, Dudley Joiner, IRPM, Justin Tomlinson, Mark Field, Martin Boyd, Neil Maloney, Rob Plumb, Robert Buckland, Sebastian O’Kelly, Shula Rich, Sir Peter Bottomley, Y and Y Management

Devon pensioners humiliate Y and Y Management and Avon Freeholds at tribunal

February 28, 2014 By admin

… and Y and Y Management ‘broke the ARHM code’ (except it is actually a member of ARMA) London-based freeholder Israel Moskovitz and his business partner Joseph Gurvits, of Y and Y Management, must rue the day they snapped up at auction the freeholds of retirement sites in Devon. After a two-year legal marathon – […]

Filed Under: ARHM, ARMA, Gurvits, Israel Moskovitz, Moskovitz / Gurvits, News, Tribunal triumphs ... and defeats Tagged With: Avon Freeholds, Elena Andreadis, Elim Court, Israel Moskovitz, Joseph Gurvits, Y and Y Management

Israel Moskovitz ‘unappealing conduct’ reported in The Oldie

December 23, 2013 By admin

The monthly Oldie magazine has reported the failure of freeholder Israel Moskovitz to frustrate the right to manage application of the residents at Regent Court retirement site in Plymouth. Regent Court won right to manage in February 2012, but has been locked in legal wrangling for another 20 months after Moskovitz repeatedly attempted to appeal […]

Filed Under: Gurvits, Israel Moskovitz, Justin Bates, Moskovitz / Gurvits, News, Press, Tribunal triumphs ... and defeats Tagged With: Israel Moskovitz, Justin Bates, Y and Y Management

Freeholder’s barrister Justin Bates named in Parliament yesterday. And Benjamin Mire. And Tchenguiz. And Yianis. And Israel Moskovitz …

December 5, 2013 By admin

… Labour MP Jim Fitzpatrick and Sir Peter Bottomley put the boot in to leasehold profiteers! Two senior MPs from opposite political parties yesterday delivered hard-hitting speeches in Parliament that highlighted the scandals in leasehold. And in a sign of the rising political temperature concerning these issues, neither hesitated to name names. Jim Fitzpatrick, the […]

Filed Under: Benjamin Mire, Canary Riverside, Israel Moskovitz, John Christodoulou, Justin Bates, LEASE, Moskovitz / Gurvits, News, Sir Peter Bottomley, Slider Posts, Slider2, Tchenguiz, West India Quay Tagged With: Benjamin Mire, Israel Moskovitz, Jim Fitzpatrick, John Christodoulou, Justin Bates, Sir Peter Bottomley, Trust Property Management, Y and Y Management, Yianis Group

Israel Moskovitz fails – again – to appeal against the Regent Court right to manage

November 12, 2013 By admin

An attempt by freeholder Israel Moskovitz to appeal against the granting of right to manage to Regent Court has been turned down by the Court of Appeal. Israel Moskovitz, who owns Avon Freeholds, applied for leave to appeal to the superior court after his appeal to the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) failed in August. Regent […]

Filed Under: Gurvits, Israel Moskovitz, Moskovitz / Gurvits, News, RTM, Tribunal triumphs ... and defeats Tagged With: Israel Moskovitz, Joseph Gurvits, Regent Court, Y and Y Management

‘Don’t make the pensioners of Regent Court take you to court AGAIN, Mr Moskovitz,’ urges Bottomley

October 30, 2013 By admin

The pensioners of Regent Court, in Plymouth, face the prospect of another encounter in court with their freeholder Israel Moskovitz after being presented with a £140,000 bill to pay for a new roof. The roof was damaged by storms in April 2012, but insurers AXA claim the condition of the roof would have voided the […]

Filed Under: Gurvits, Israel Moskovitz, Justin Bates, Moskovitz / Gurvits, News, Sir Peter Bottomley, Tribunal triumphs ... and defeats Tagged With: Israel Moskovitz, Joseph Gurvits, Regent Court, Sir Peter Bottomley, Y and Y Management

Bottomley meets Joseph Gurvits and Israel Moskovitz over leasehold right to manage disputes at Plymouth retirement developments – but residents are determined to fight it out

February 1, 2013 By admin

Sir Peter Bottomley MP (right) held a meeting yesterday at his Westminster offices with the freeholder and managing agent who are locked in right to manage disputes with leaseholders at two Plymouth retirement developments. The meeting was an informal exchange of views between freeholder Israel Moskovitz, property manager Joseph Gurvits and Sebastian O’Kelly and Martin […]

Filed Under: Gurvits, Israel Moskovitz, Moskovitz / Gurvits, News, Retirement, Sir Peter Bottomley Tagged With: Elena Andreadis, Elim Court, Israel Moskovitz, Joseph Gurvits, Martin Boyd, Regent Court, Retirement, Sebastian O’Kelly, Sir Peter Bottomley, Y and Y Management

Managing agent Joseph Gurvits named in Commons – an hour after MP attends ARMA round-table conference on tougher ethical standards

January 24, 2013 By admin

The behind-the-scenes concern of senior politicians over managing agent Joseph Gurvits broke into the open yesterday when he was named in the House of Commons. Gurvits was named – without comment and together with Peverel and Tchenguiz – in a brief intervention in the rental housing sector debate yesterday by Sir Peter Bottomley, MP for […]

Filed Under: Gurvits, Israel Moskovitz, Justin Bates, Moskovitz / Gurvits, News, Sir Peter Bottomley Tagged With: Conway & Co, Eagerstates, Elena Andreadis, Elim Court, Joseph Gurvits, Mark Prisk, Oliver Colvile, Regent Court, Sir Peter Bottomley, Triplerose, Y and Y Management

Pensioners lose leasehold right to manage application for the third time

January 12, 2013 By admin

Leasehold pensioners in Plymouth have failed for the third time to break free from London managing agent Joseph Gurvits, LKP was informed yesterday. Elim Court’s third right to manage application in the past 18 months was thrown out at the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal owing to a mistake in the application. The decision is a bitterly […]

Filed Under: Gurvits, Israel Moskovitz, Justin Bates, Leasehold Valuation Tribunal, Moskovitz / Gurvits, News, Right To Manage Federation, RTM, Sir Peter Bottomley Tagged With: Dudley Joiner, Elim Court, Israel Moskovitz, Joseph Gurvits, Justin Bates, Right To Manage Federation, RTMF, Y and Y Management

Pensioners in third escape attempt from Gurvits

November 25, 2012 By admin

UPDATED WHERE INDICATED JANUARY 12 2013 Two retirement developments in Plymouth are engulfed in right to manage actions against London landlord and managing agent Joseph Gurvits. It is the third attempt for residents at Elim Court, many in their mid to late eighties, when they face a contested RTM action at the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal […]

Filed Under: Gurvits, Israel Moskovitz, Justin Bates, Moskovitz / Gurvits, News, Right To Manage Federation Tagged With: Elim Court, Israel Moskovitz, Joseph Gurvits, Right To Manage Federation, Y and Y Management

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CML says lenders ‘reviewing loans to reflect concerns about onerous ground rents’

The greed of housebuilders has created a housing crisis as homeowners with onerous properties now cannot sell. LKP has been deluged with home buyers saying that their mortgages have been refused at the last moment. One caller was buying a flat in Windsor where the ground rent rose by £150pa every 30 years, but the […]

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Buyers have themselves to blame, not solicitors, over leaseholds, say conveyancers – Legal Futures Conveyancers have hit back at suggestions they should have prevented the scandal of new homes being sold as leasehold properties with rapidly escalating ground rents, which the government announced plans to ban last week. Rob Hailstone, chief executive and founder of […]

ITV News covers the leasehold house scandal, and homeowners stage mass demo on March 18

ITV News has again reported the leasehold house scandal, which particularly affects the North West. The item, broadcast on March 7, precedes increasing militancy from caught-out leasehold homeowners, some of whom cannot now sell their houses because of onerous ground rents. On March 18 a demonstration is planned by the National Leasehold Campaign Facebook group […]

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Only one Grenfell cladding site in line for taxpayer handout as December 31st deadline looms, reports BBC R4 You and Yours  

By Harry Scoffin Six months on from the government declaring that taxpayers would pay to save leaseholders from ruinous Grenfell ACM cladding bills, only 1 of the 86 sites has got to the first approval stage ahead of the December 31 deadline. Despite this dismal level of progress, a Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local […]

Private Eye identifies yet another murky offshore landlord, Vuillard Holdings Limited, with Grenfell cladding

“Snakes and cladders” is Private Eye’s headline revealing Vuillard Holdings Limited as the latest landlord with Grenfell cladding on site. Owned by shy proprietors David and Patrick Kennedy, it owns the freehold of Victoria Wharf, two sites Limehouse in East London, where leaseholders have so far “been forced” to pay £165,000 for fire wardens. LKP […]

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  October 14 2018 UPDATE: On January 29 2019 Communities Secretary James Brokenshire held a round table with leaseholder groups, assuring them that zero ground rents were on the table. Sebastian O’Kelly, of LKP and www.BetterRetirementHousing.com, argued for retirement housing also to lose its exemption from any ground rent ban.  This week we should have […]

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Martin Paine and his wife Anne Kirmond have spent years as landlord causing distress to the leaseholds at Blythe Court and many other sites. LKP first broke the story of the Panie’s ground rent exploits in January 2016 despite warning letters from solicitors Taylor Emmet LLP. https://www.leaseholdknowledge.com/martin-paine Since this story, we have covered the activities […]

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