The Right To Manage Federation is reporting a surge in interest in right to manage as the media takes up the Peverel / Cirrus price fixing scandal. FULL LIST OF PEVEREL’S SCAM SITES The Office of Fair Trading issued its final report into the cartel – where stooge companies bid against Peverel’s own subsidiary in […]
‘Peverel and Cirrus ripping off leasehold owners’ … ‘tricksy freeholders’ … ‘the corrupt ruining lives’. Another average day in the Commons …
January 24, 2014 By
… a minor change in leasehold law was interesting by passing comments to what is now generally accepted The Leasehold Knowledge Partnership – Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation’s sister website – estimate on the number of leasehold owners was repeated in the Commons today. This is a coup for Martin Boyd (left), LKP stalwart […]
OFT’s ‘leniency’ deal saved Peverel / Cirrus £4m in fines, says The Oldie
January 23, 2014 By
The cleverness Peverel demonstrated over the Cirrus scam was revealed in The Oldie magazine this week. Had Peverel not suddenly decided to come clean in December 2009 – just after the issue had been reported in the Times, but before the full Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation submission arrived in January 2010 – it could […]
Cut out the nonsense and pay up for Peverel cheating! Cabinet minister tells Janet Entwistle
January 18, 2014 By
‘… On this issue you seem unwilling to listen, learn or improve’ Energy Secretary Ed Davey has today told Peverel chief executive Janet Entwistle to pay a “much larger compensatory offer” for running a price-fixing cartel. In December Peverel subsidiary Cirrus was found to have been running bid-rigging tendering for contracts worth £1.4 million at […]
The Independent covers Cirrus and other leasehold scandals
January 14, 2014 By
Last Saturday, The Independent wrote a wide-ranging report on leasehold issues including the Cirrus scandal 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 of: the Cirrus scandal, the OFT investigation into leasehold (the scope of which concludes on […]
Little warmth in this masonic handshake as Peverel website removes news of winning a new block
January 9, 2014 By
On the day the Office of Fair Trading announced its findings into the Cirrus scandal, Peverel Retirement declared it had won a new client: the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institute. Peverel would be taking over the management of the 13-flat Farnfield Court in Croydon, south London. The beleaguered property management – which has lost all its […]
Guardian covers more fall out from Peverel’s price-fixing scam with Cirrus Communications
December 23, 2013 By
The Guardian returned to the Peverel price-fixing scam involving Cirrus Communications yesterday. The personal finance editor Patrick Collinson reported Janet Entwistle, Peverel CEO, rejecting calls for compensation. Peverel is insisting on paying only £100,000 as a “goodwill” payment to settle a dispute in which it systematically rigged tender processes in favour of its subsidiary Cirrus […]
Janet Entwistle to Bottomley: no move on £100,000 ‘goodwill’ payment over Cirrus, but she welcomes meeting with MPs and Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation
December 18, 2013 By
Janet Entwistle, the Peverel chief executive, won’t increase the compensation – Peverel terms it ‘goodwill’ – offered to sites that were likely to have been cheated in the Cirrus price-fixing scandal. Her decision is made in reply to Sir Peter Bottomley – supported by LibDem Cabinet minister Ed Davey and Labour MP Jim Fitzpatrick – […]
National Business Awards will not remove an award to Cirrus Communications in 2009 – even though 15% was for ethics!
December 18, 2013 By
A National Business Award given to Cirrus Communications Systems in 2009 – just before its owner Peverel confessed to the Office of Fair Trading that it was running a price-fixing cartel – will not be removed. The decision has been taken by UBM, the business magazine publisher that runs the awards. “Cirrus Communication Systems was […]
ARMA gave Peverel clean bill of health – just as it admitted Cirrus was cheating pensioners with bogus tenders
December 16, 2013 By
Peverel was given a clean bill of health by an “independent audit” and was boasting of its improved services to ARMA – the Association of Residential Managing Agents – just days after admitting a price-fixing scam to the OFT. On January 4 2010, Peverel managing director Lee Middleburgh – who has since left the company […]
Three MPs tell Entwistle to pay up more over Peverel / Cirrus scandal, or accept binding mediation
December 13, 2013 By
Janet Entwistle, the chief executive of Peverel, was this afternoon sent a open letter from Sir Peter Bottomley demanding higher compensation to sites cheated in the Cirrus cartel, or to accept independent binding mediation. The letter is backed by Ed Davey, Energy Secretary and LibDem MP for Surbiton and Kingston, and Jim Fitzpatrick, MP for […]
Guardian examines the Peverel / Cirrus price-fixing scandal tomorrow
December 13, 2013 By
The Guardian is publishing a major report into the Peverel / Cirrus price-fixing scandal in tomorrow’s newspaper. It is written by Patrick Collinson, the personal finance editor, and will appear on the front cover of the stand-alone Money section. It is understood that the report gives the background to the sham tendering that Peverel engaged […]
