February 8, 2025

Downy Court seeks sale of house manager’s flat as residents vote on live-out service

Residents at Downy Court in Poole are voting to end their live-in house manager service at the end of the month as a way of cutting service charges.

The flat is one of hundreds owned by FirstPort that was granted a lease in 2009, when Vincent Tchenguiz, who owns the freehold, also owned Peverel, which became FirstPort last year.

The residents have already received £6,200 in LED lighting and FirstPort will put £5,000 into the contingency fund.

A two-bedroom flat at Downy Court is offered for sale at £118,000, so if the residents vote to end the in-house manager’s service they will also be making an extremely generous gift to FirstPort.

New chief executives for Peverel / FirstPort property management companies

This is just on the Knight Square website. Janet Entwistle is chief executive of Knight Square, which controls the group. New CEO and MD appointments at FirstPort Following the successful launch of FirstPort to unite all property services businesses under one brand, Nigel Howell has been appointed as CEO of FirstPort and Keith Shields as […]