Minister holds roundtable talks on leasehold
Housing Minister Mark Prisk (right) is holding an hour-long roundtable discussion on residential leasehold tomorrow. The meeting is to be attended by trade body representatives such as Michelle Banks,...
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ARMA-Q reformers get strong backing at annual conference
The reform-minded leadership of Association of Residential Managing Agents today made a strong call for backing of ARMA-Q, its scheme to add ethically enhanced backbone to the professional body...
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Pravda alive and well at LEASE, ARMA and Peverel … who ALL support the OFT...
Not since the Soviet Union went out of business have we seen such clottish attempts to spin a positive line. It started at the website of our old friends at the Leasehold Advisory Service deciding that...
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… but you must take it on trust that if those bits of Peverel that ARE members sign up to ARMA-Q these practices will be ‘outlawed’ and ‘speedily detected’ Michelle Banks (right), chief executive of...
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The Independent covers leasehold scandals
Last Saturday, The Independent wrote a wide-ranging report on leasehold issues and the need for reforms. Headed ‘The secret of how to give your flat a new lease of life … ‘ it was, in fact, a round-up...
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Competition and Markets Authority issues update on leasehold study
… But it wants further feedback, so let them have it! … Oh, and oldies are happier than those in non-retirement flats The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has today issued an update on its...
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Feeble talk from CMA at ARMA conference
– CMA soothes leasehold managers by repeating its skimpy MORI poll findings – 25% of ARMA membership still not signed up to ARMA-Q – ARMA does NOT manage 60% of sector – How relevant are the happy...
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If Peverel Retirement is admitted to ARMA-Q, what message does that send...
Ten months after being found guilty by the OFT of systematically cheating residents in retirement sites, Peverel Retirement is now lining up to join ARMA-Q. This is the new ethically enhanced...
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Countrywide ‘ripping off’ leaseholders, MP tells Commons. And it is given the...
– Property management company accused of stalling hand-over of residents’ management companies – Bovis Homes is ejecting Countrywide from Swindon sites and is not appointing it at future ones – And …...
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Peverel Retirement up before the ARMA regulator before it can join ARMA-Q
A complaint about Peverel Retirement is being considered by ARMA regulator Keith Hill even before the trade body rules on whether it meets the criteria of ARMA-Q. The complaint comes from Alex Ellison,...
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ARMA membership … Find out on Twitter!
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...
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Now we are told Countrywide is STILL an ARMA member … well, until February 1
Staff working overtime to process applications “to take our members on a journey …” LKP has received a statement at 11.14am today from ARMA addressing its peculiar manner of announcing the membership...
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20% of ARMA members ‘walk out over new ethical scheme’
… and if ARMA’s Twitter feed is to be believed, two-thirds of the membership has dropped out At least of a fifth of the membership of ARMA has ditched the trade association that on January 1 brought...
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Stop keep asking who our members are, ARMA tells pensioner
Michael Hollands, an indefatigable letter-writer on retirement leasehold issues, has been told to stop writing to ARMA for to find out who are the current members of the trade body. The ARMA membership...
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ARMA ends four-month farce after finally saying who its members are …
But don’t feel any obligation to join on our account! ARMA has finally published a list of its full members – more than four months after making the more rigorous ARMA-Q the criteria for membership....
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Michelle Banks steps down at ARMA
Michelle Banks, the ARMA chief executive, is to step down in July. The announcement to ARMA members comes from ARMA chairman Martin Perry. “ … sadly I have to announce that Michelle Banks will not be...
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Bottomley tells BBC he will fight on for leaseholders
Sir Peter Bottomley, newly re-elected for Worthing West, told the BBC this morning that he will fight as hard as he can for leaseholders who have been ripped off. The interview on Brighton-based BBC...
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BBC told Charity Commission should stop dawdling over recognition of LKP
In a wide ranging BBC 5 Live Investigates programme on leasehold scandals – which can be heard here – Sir Peter Bottomley said the Charity Commission should recognise LKP’s application without further...
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