In June Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation reported how former wartime squadron leader Eric Matthews, now aged 95, had won back £11,500 off Peverel in a brilliant Leasehold Valuation Tribunal victory over insurance and other commissions at Strand Court, in Rye, East Sussex. And last month Matthews was interviewed in the Channel Four Dispatches documentary […]
Peverel’s approach to self-regulation is … you pay for it and it goes on the service charge (even though an LVT says it shouldn’t)
October 23, 2012 By
UPDATED 4/11/12 Peverel commented on issue: “The LVT decision you refer to was specific to one development. “We would prefer to resolve issues when they arise, long before an LVT is considered. We are therefore reviewing the use of Ombudsman and mediation services across the Peverel Group and will announce any changes when a full review […]
Progress report on our Houses of Parliament briefing
October 16, 2012 By
There is exactly two weeks to go before the LKP/Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation briefing at the Houses of Parliament things are moving along at a pace. All MPs and Lords have now received a formal invitation to attend from Sir Peter Bottomley MP. Our speakers are lined up. Key members of staff from the […]
Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation NEEDS YOUR HELP.
October 13, 2012 By
Dear Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation readers, LKP and Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation have organised a briefing meeting for MPs and Lords at the Houses of Parliament at 3pm on 30th October. We need your urgent help, so that we can help you. Please write to your MP as soon as you can to […]
Aliens abduct Peverel web site?
October 6, 2012 By
We were unsure if Peverel’s web site had been hacked or been abducted by aliens when we read their article dated 1st October (April?). The article supports the Scottish Factors Act which has just come into force. Factors are Scotland’s equivalent of Managing agents. You can read the Peverel press release here.These are Peverel’s recommendations:: […]
Exclusive: Tory chairman rocked by ‘get rich quick’ probe
October 5, 2012 By
So says the headline in today’s Independent newspaper. The same story is already covered in almost every other paper. Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation readers may remember we wrote about the ex Housing Minister Grant Shapps and his double life nearly a month ago. https://www.betterretirementhousing.com/mechanised-plagiarism-and-psycho-babble-are-grant-shapps-little-earners-outside-politics/#more-2604. Since then most of the web sites we reported as […]
Exit fees: what to do after the OFT/Tchenguiz deal
October 1, 2012 By
OFT website outlining the agreement is here http://www.oft.gov.uk/news-and-updates/press/2012/77-12 After a three-year investigation, the Office of Fair Trading finally expressed its view earlier this month that exit fees on sale were “likely” to be unfair … but that they still need to be paid. The announcement came in the form of a deal with the Tchenguiz […]
McCarthy and Stone and a media firestorm in 1991
September 28, 2012 By
The Dispatches programme on Monday night is not the first time McCarthy and Stone has been in the eye of a storm. In 1991 it launched a disastrous High Court action against the Daily Telegraph claiming £800,000 damages over articles about service charges. The fallout of the affair was that the housebuilder sold off Peverel […]
McCarthy and Stone proud of 35 years of ‘fairness and respect’
September 26, 2012 By
McCarthy and Stone has replied on its website to the exposé carried out by Channel Four’s Dispatches on Monday evening. You can read the page here It says: “Treating our customers with fairness and respect is at the cornerstone of what we do and over the course of the last 35 years, our staff have helped […]
Brilliant exposé of retirement leasehold on Channel Four Dispatches
September 24, 2012 By
Tonight’s Dispatches programme (September 24 2012) on retirement leasehold was a brilliant example of television journalism that was extremely damaging to both McCarthy and Stone, and to Peverel. It is excellent that Peverel’s disgraceful treatment of the pensioners at Strand Court, Rye, has been given a wider airing (search Strand Court on this site). But […]
Pensioner ‘spy’ to lift the lid on retirement leasehold 8pm tonight
September 22, 2012 By
On Monday night (8pm) Channel Four’s Dispatches carries out a special investigation in the fraught world of retirement leasehold with much of the material provided by an undercover pensioner ‘spy’. Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation activists have been interviewed for the progamme, and we have given the filmmakers, October, every assistance over the past few […]
After Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation, the Daily Mail takes an interest in Grant Shapps’ colourful business career
September 18, 2012 By
Full article can be read here or http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2204292/How-Labour-want-probe-Grant-Shapps-family-business-potential-fraud-claims.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
