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Nine months in the making: ARHM rules on Peverel / Cirrus scandal
ARHM STATEMENT INTO PEVEREL PRICE FIXING / COLLUSION FOLLOWING INVESTIGATION BY FORMER OFT. Starts The ARHM Audit and Regulation Committee has been working with Peverel to review the outcome of the OFT...
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ARHM’s pathetic response to the Peverel / Cirrus scandal
… while “under review”, Cirrus sponsors the ARHM summer conference and is doled out generous contracts In the club: Richard Wheeldon, ARHM vice chair, part of the Cirrus review team and an executive of...
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OFT price-fixing cheat Glyn Jackson is back at Peverel sites
Eight months after the Office of Fair Trading revealed the Cirrus collusive tendering scandal, scamming contractor Glyn Jackson is again working on retirement sites managed by Peverel. Glyn Jackson,...
View ArticleRipped-off pensioners, betrayed Campaign against Residential Leasehold...
– 2005 to 2009 Peverel cheats pensioners at 65 site by installing Cirrus equipment through bogus tendering – Campaign against Residential Leasehold Exploitation alerts police, SFO and OFT, and The...
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Peverel Cirrus price-fixing stooge says sorry …
The owner of one of the three stooge companies that helped Peverel’s subsidiary Cirrus wrongly win lucrative contracts at retirement sites deeply regrets his involvement in the scam. Jeremy Owen, 38,...
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You cannot be Cirrus, says Private Eye
Satirical magazine reports OFT price-fixing stooge Glyn Jackson back at work at a Peverel managed site Private Eye today reports the LKP story of OFT price-fixing cheat Glyn Jackson being re-employed...
View ArticleJanet Entwistle says no current Peverel staff ‘linked’ to Cirrus scam
Janet Entwistle, the Peverel CEO, assured LKP earlier this year that no one involved directly – or even “linked” – in the Cirrus price-fixing scam was still employed by the company. Janet Entwistle’s...
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Ex-Peverel politburo set up Freemont Property Management
Former leading executives of Peverel have set up a new company, Freemont Property Management. Headed by former Peverel CEO Nigel Bannister and former head of Peverel Retirement Keith Edgar, the company...
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Less ‘legal torture’ and more happiness in leasehold, says Sir Peter Bottomley
Sir Peter Bottomley made another strong speech over leasehold issues today at the Chartered Institute of Housing meeting in Crawley. It was titled “Less legal torture and more happiness in leasehold”....
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No change over Cirrus retirement scam, says Entwistle, although Peverel...
Janet Entwistle, the chief executive of Peverel (soon to be reborn as FirstPort), has ruled out mediation with retirement residents scammed in the Cirrus collusive tendering scandal. Any “unhappy...
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Cooee! Peverel becomes FirstPort and heading for ARMA-Q … But will it be...
Like the unwanted guest at a party, Peverel has put on some outlandish new clothes and now seeks to crash ARMA-Q. It is rolling out its new FirstPort brand, which means when you click on the Peverel...
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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 rules against FirstPort Retirement …
Humiliating criticism of the troubled property manager, but the path is now clear for it to apply for membership of the trade body The regulator of the Association of Residential Managing Agents (ARMA)...
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ARMA regulator’s sanctions against FirstPort ‘did not address seriousness of...
The admonition delivered to FirstPort for attempting to sell off house managers’ flats has not satisfied complainant Alex Ellison. “I am, of course, pleased that you upheld my complaint and that you...
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Pensioners ‘turn to old Peverel politburo at Freemont Property Managers for...
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...
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FirstPort Retirement is allowed into ARMA
The controversial FirstPort Retirement managing agent has been admitted into the Association of Residential Managing Agents FirstPort, formerly Peverel, was responsible for systematically cheating...
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FirstPort buys up Freemont: the property management firm set up by its ousted...
The Freemont board … Freemont, the property management company set up by the old Peverel Politburo in 2014 after the Cirrus / Office of Fair Trading bid-rigging scandal, has been bought back into the...
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After begging to keep ground rents, why is McCarthy and Stone saying it now...
Why is McCarthy and Stone’s head of legal writing today in Inside Housing and saying “we are supportive of commonhold”? This from a company – for the moment, owned by Texas-based private equity Loan...
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