Campaign to improve housing in later life
Statement from Peverel received this morning:
All of our ARMA members have applied for ARMA-Q accreditation. These applications are currently being processed by ARMA.
Peverel Retirement has applied for ARMA membership and this application is also being processed by ARMA.
The statement concerning Peverel companies does not address Peverel retirement referred to the ARMA regulator Keith Hill.
Big managing agents, which manage flats, are big because they have got business from developers or large-scale freehold owing companies.
Such as Proxima or Fairhold, which are administered through Estates and Management and are ultimately controlled by a trust in the British Virgin Islands.
Doubtless they are very obliging.
Not a single one is big through consumer choice.
Managing agents accredited to the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership, on the other hand, want business from leaseholders. Many are former leaseholders. Many have spoken at our Parliamentary meetings urging politicians to clean up the sector.
All have signed undertakings of good practice and have provided extensive references … from leaseholders.
They can also hand-hold leaseholders through right to manage at minimal cost.
Contact Sebastian O’Kelly at LKP for further details: sok@leaseholdknowledge.com, 07808 328 230
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Better Retirement Housing, formerly the Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation, exists to promote good practice in the retirement housing sector.
The elderly should be able to downsize, enjoy the benefits of stress-free homes, and live communally.
The advantages of this form of living to achieve mutual reliance and combat loneliness are obvious.
Sadly, the UK’s retirement housing sector has been beset with poor practice and has an appalling reputation. It has been the subject of critical tribunal rulings, two investigations by the Office of Fair Trading, and one Law Commission report.
It has also been debated in Parliament, and at the All Party Parliamentary Group meetings organised by the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership.
That there is a problem is not disputed by impartial observers, although retirement housebuilders’ do their best to minimise the issues.
It is scandalous that the most vulnerable in our society have been beset by sneaky and dishonest fees widespread in leasehold, or systematically cheated, as the OFT found in the Peverel / Cirrus collusive tendering scandal.
However, we acknowledge that the retirement housing sector is varied and there are good operators within it. Better Retirement Housing is delighted that new overseas companies are moving into the market, and that care providers are producing housing solutions. This has introduced a welcome change of culture.
Nonetheless, the standard retirement leasehold flat remains a dubious proposition. It is absurd that it can be the single worst residential property investment one can make, with plummeting re-sale values bearing no resemblance to the local housing market.
The worst practices are made possible by leasehold tenure, and is widely acknowledged that in Scotland, where leasehold does not exist, retirement housing is more harmonious.
Better Retirement Housing aims to improve this sector and, with the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership, seeks to make reforms to residential leasehold law.
We assist with individual problems and provide an editorial service of the sector, which aims to be accurate and fair.
Sebastian O’Kelly
sok@leaseholdknowledge.com
Martin Boyd
martin.boyd@leaseholdknowledge.com
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Latest news from Leasehold Knowledge PartnershipTonight’s Dispatches programme (September 24 2012) on retirement leasehold was a brilliant example of television journalism that was extremely critical of both McCarthy and Stone and Peverel. Peverel’s LVT defeat at the hands of
So if according to Peverel “All our ARMA members have applied for ARMA-Q” It must follow that the non-member companies have not applied for ARMA-Q membership.
Were the re-branded Appello (formerly Cirrus) minded to conduct in another bout of price fixing, than I presume ARMA would have no locus?
Michael,
Further to Cirrus Communication Services Ltd / Peverel Management Services Ltd who were involved in the Price Fixing I noted as below the term regarding Agent have we gone after the agent instead of the freeholder.
Agent/Agency
Definitions
Fiduciary relationship between two parties in which one (the ‘agent’) is under the control of (is obligated to) the other (the ‘principal’) . The agent is authorized by the principal to perform certain acts, for and on behalf of the principal. The principal is bound by the acts of the agent, performed in carrying out entrusted duties and within the scope of agent’s authority. An agency can be created by (1) express agreement, whether oral or written, (2) implication, based on the custom or practice of the trade, or (3) conduct of the principal. Under the legal doctrine of estoppel, the principal is prohibited from denying the existence of a properly constituted agency. Creation of agency is essential to commercial and financial transactions, because an organization (as a legal entity) can function only through its agents.
Chas,
Have you identified the names of the directors of Cirrus Communication Services Ltd , Peverel Management Services Ltd and Kingsborough Insurance Services Ltd with “freehold Company” and E&M when the Times Newspaper reported on price fixing in Dec 2009 ?,
So the person running Kingsborough at the time it was a subsidiary of Peverel Management Services Ltd was running her own private business registered as Pinewood Marketing Services Ltd. Even Janet thought [REDACTED …]
Nigel Bannister (nothing wrong with Cirrus)
Keith Edgar (crooked smile)
Judi Runcimann (insurer)
David Edward (lawyer)
Philip Cummings (puppet finance manager)
plus some HR and normal types who resigned as soon as they realised
and on behalf of the landlord
Michael John Gaston
Bill Procter
Stonedale Property Management have just qualified for ARMA-Q status.This is despite Stonedale property Management being registered as a “Dissolved Company”.
Does it not undermine ARMA-Q if companies that do not even exist manage to qualify?
So, OM Property Management (Peverel) have met ARMA-Q standards!
Is it not time for the many reputable management companies to resign from ARMA?
After all, do they want to be considered as being on the same level as the notorious Peverel?
Are they satisfied that two senior (and influential) members of ARMA hold senior positions within Peverel?
If I were seeking a managing agent who had resigned from ARMA as a matter of principal, they would be a firm favourite to get the management contract.
Many decent property management companies have gone to great expense to qualify for ARMA-Q.
That Peverel (with their justified reputation) are deemed fit members of ARMA-Q, exposes ARMA-Q for the sham it really is.