By Dan Healey, director of the Woodlands Court RTM, addressed the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and commonhold reform on 27 March 2023. He made a passionate plea for retirement sites to opt for right to manage and so employ managing agents accountable to the leaseholders who do the paying Right to Manage – […]
Why I took Woodlands Court to right to manage, why it works and why I want the authorities to intervene in this scandal hit sector
May 8, 2023 By
Dudley Joiner’s Team Property Management that also managed RTM retirement sites goes bust owing £635,958
March 8, 2021 By
Dudley Joiner’s Team Property Management went bust owing £635,958.61, according to the liquidator’s report (below). His company the Right To Manage Federation Limited, which is not a federation but a private facilitator of right to manage applications, is still trading. Dudley Joiner informed told LKP in 2015 that being disqualified as a company director for […]
Pensioners tell property manager Dudley Joiner: give back our £27,000 sinking fund
October 16, 2017 By
Leaseholders in Chichester Court, a retirement site in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex have told property manager Dudley Joiner to return their £27,000 sinking fund. Mr Joiner won’t give the money back unless the directors of the Chichester Court Right To Manage Company Limited sign some form of indemnity agreement as he believes the company is illegal. […]
Elim Court: If you want right to manage, this is how NOT to go about it
July 28, 2017 By
Elim Court in Plymouth has escaped from its right to manage debacle by the skin of its teeth, having been led to near ruin by right to manage facilitators. After having had its right to manage application turned down in the lower tribunal (freeholder’s costs: £10,000) and then thrown out by the upper tribunal (freeholder’s […]
Pauline Jones brings right to manage to retirement sites in the North West
October 28, 2016 By
Macclesfield-based managing agent Pauline Jones today has taken another retirement site right to manage: Warburton Court, in Uppermill, in Oldham, Greater Manchester. The RTM was won on the third attempt, and the entire application was handled in-house. Two earlier efforts, where solicitors were employed, hit problems and were declined by the freeholder, part of the […]
Guardian reports Warner Court breaking free from FirstPort and Tchenguiz
October 15, 2016 By
The Guardian newspaper today reports the right to manage struggle at Warner Court in Camberley, Surrey, and its efforts to break free of the Tchenguiz / FirstPort management. There has been a cascade of retirement right to manage applications this summer. Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation reports the issues of Warner Court here Many retirement […]
Freemont Property Managers in show-down over RTM at Grace Darling House
August 13, 2016 By
Next Wednesday former chief executive of Peverel Retirement Keith Edgar will try to persuade residents at Grace Darling House in Poole to appoint his new company Freemont Property Managers to take the site right to manage. A minority of residents are deeply concerned at the proposal, with many feeling that they would be better off […]
Ex-Peverel employee thwarted over right to manage for Tatton Court and Willow Court
August 10, 2016 By
UPDATE August 12 Yesterday evening Susan Earnshaw returned Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation’s phone call and we discussed the issues of Tatton Court and Willow Court and the services provided by her company. We publish her full response below, but make a number of points: 1/ We tried but were unable to contact Mrs Earnshaw […]
To stop being pushed around, go for right to manage or buy the freehold, says Mail on Sunday
August 8, 2016 By
The Mail on Sunday personal finance section went over the issue of leaseholders exercising right to manage and buying the freehold yesterday. The article can be read here It referenced the LEASE survey that found that 57 per cent of leaseholders regretted buying their property. This is a figure quite unprecedented in other jurisdictions where […]
Stonewater pensioners ‘turn to Freemont Property Managers for right to manage’
July 23, 2016 By
Pensioners at two Stonewater housing association retirement sites are said to be seeking right to manage using Freemont Property Managers – the company founded by ex-Peverel politburo members. Some held senior positions in the company when Peverel’s subsidiary Cirrus was systematically cheating pensioners in a price fixing racket that was busted by the Office of […]
LEASE: Don’t be panicked over Triplerose multi-block RTM ruling
January 28, 2016 By
(… which is what we have been saying all along) Ten months after the Triplerose decision in the Court of Appeal on multi-block RTMs, the Leasehold Advisory Service has issued its advice: don’t do anything. “The advice to the customers for now can only be to do nothing, unless the landlord starts any action of […]
Metcalfe Court: how a retirement site has benefited from RTM (including 20% savings compared with FirstPort)
November 26, 2015 By
The road to RTM After an embittered struggle with the Tchenguiz organisation – which also saw the involvement of two MPs – Metcalfe Court, in Romiley, in Cheshire, broke free and took over its right to manage last February. Below the RTM directors write to Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation / LKP to share their […]
