A couple who own a retirement bungalow with a conservatory face a demand for £5,000 from the Tchenguiz Family Trust freeholder. And the money might not need to be paid at all if the Peverel house manager were permitted to confirm the date when the conservatory was built – but she has been instructed not […]
Tchenguiz Family Trust seeks £5,000 for conservatory ‘built 25 years ago’ … and Peverel will not permit their house manager to confirm when it was built
February 18, 2014 By
‘Too little to protect Homewalk House against intruders’
February 17, 2014 By
After two break-ins in a London retirement leasehold site nothing has been done to improve residents’ security, a Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation reader has complained. In June and October last year intruders broke in to Homewalk House in Sydenham, south-east London, and one arrest has been made. “It was a very frightening experience for […]
Leasehold owners excluded from government’s insurance scheme Flood Re
February 15, 2014 By
This joint press release, issued on January 23 has received considerable coverage in the media, including MoneyBox Live on Radio 4 today. The Leasehold Knowledge Partnership, which has been referred to in the FT among, provided figures demonstrating that the leasehold sector is far larger than government – on anyone else for that matter – […]
Number of leasehold homes is DOUBLE the figure the government believes, according to the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership
February 14, 2014 By
Shocking survey HERE The residential leasehold sector – mainly flats – is the murky corner of the housing market … and it is far larger than any government body has realised. The Leasehold Knowledge Partnership, the sister organisation of Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation, today publishes a report demonstrating that there are 5.37 million leasehold […]
Cirrus sites have received ‘goodwill’ payments, says Entwistle
February 11, 2014 By
Retirement sites that were identified by the Office of Fair Trading in the price-fixing scandal involving Peverel / Cirrus have received their “goodwill” payments, Janet Entwistle of Peverel said yesterday. At a meeting with Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation and Sir Peter Bottomley in Westminster, Entwistle said that she was confident all sites affected by […]
‘Bribes’, ‘crooked operators’, ‘villains turned angels’: Aussie baroness puts the boot into the leasehold fairytale in the Lords
February 8, 2014 By
COMMENT How impressed one has to be with the lobbying activities of the lawyers in ALEP: the Association of Leasehold Enfrachisement Practitioners. It waives a piece of paper pointing out that the powers of attorney – for those who are incapacitated – does not apply in Landlord and Tenant Law and – in no time, […]
If ANY other site thinks it was scammed by Peverel / Cirrus, contact Ed Davey or Sir Peter Bottomley
February 8, 2014 By
… and there are plenty of lawyers willing to take on this one! Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation strongly recommends that any site that believes it was scammed in the Peverel / Cirrus price-fixing scandal should raise the issue with either Sir Peter Bottomley or Ed Davey, the Energy Secretary. Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation […]
Tell us more about Grange Property Management
February 7, 2014 By
From a reader: When is someone going to look into Grange Property Management? They take ALL of any pension increase year on year. There are 70 flats at Bexhill. £207 pm: £47 increase in three years. There are 70 flats, several two-bed flats which pay more. It doesn’t take a genius to work out their […]
I have refused to pay sublet fees, and now face debt recovery
February 7, 2014 By
Dear Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation, I am a leaseholder of a Peverel-managed flat in Sussex and incurred sublet fees with a new tenant in June 2012. Having previously paid £626 for a sublet fee for the previous tenant, I refused to pay them any more and emailed them about this in August 2012 and […]
Ex-cabbie, 77, gets doubled service charges owing to anomaly in the lease
February 6, 2014 By
Alan Roth, 77, a former cabbie, has had a nasty surprise in the service charges at his one-bedroom flat in north London. For the past nine and half years he has been paying 2/148ths for his flat at Parkview Court, Newbury Park, Ilford, in service charges, amounting to £610 pounds.
FULL OFT LIST OF PEVEREL / CIRRUS SCAM SITES
February 6, 2014 By
Here is the list of all the sites involved in the OFT investigation into Peverel’s price-fixing cartel. Can any residents at these sites please contact me as soon as possible. Thanks, Sebastian
Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation to meet Janet Entwistle over Cirrus scandal … but NO site that was cheated should accept Peverel’s £100,000 ‘goodwill’ payment
February 6, 2014 By
(… and one site contacts OFT saying it was left out of the investigation) Sebastian O’Kelly and Martin Boyd, of Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation, are to meet Janet Entwistle, Peverel chief executive (right), with Sir Peter Bottomley at his Westminster offices on February 10. The discussion concerns the Cirrus price-fixing scandal and Peverel’s derisory […]
