ARMA and the myth of self regulation
“Success in a Consumer Focused Future” is the misleading title of today’s ARMA trade body conference exclusively for those working in the industry. Members have just watched a role out of the framework...
View Article‘Drive your MPs mad to change leasehold,’ Gardner tells FPRA
Full speeches have been added to the end of this article Around 250 leaseholders met in London tonight to hear Baroness Gardner of Parkes say that reform of the troubled sector is very much on the...
View ArticleHousing minister makes a start with a round-table discussion of leasehold
On Wednesday the leasehold “industry” was given the opportunity to persuade Housing Minister Mark Prisk that it has cleaned up its act with new codes of practice and consumer charters. The...
View ArticleLEASE 2013: ‘Leasehold must reform, or media will sink their teeth in’
What a difference a year makes. In 2012 LEASE, the Leasehold Advisory Service, held its “annual conference” in a Mayfair hotel charging £310 a head and the event was a blatant trade show for the vested...
View ArticleLeasehold forfeiture: why is LEASE so pathetic over this, too?
LEASE is also under attack for failing to address the issue of leasehold forfeiture. LEASE happily tells freehold owners how to forfeit a lease, but does not tell leaseholders how to preserve their...
View ArticleARMA-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...
View ArticleARMA tells Y and Y Management to mind its manners and control its temper
ARMA’s regulatory panel announced on Friday June 27 that it had admonished Y and Y Management following a complaint over “intemperate and unprofessional language” to a leaseholder who visited its north...
View ArticleFeeble 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...
View ArticlePeverel 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,...
View ArticleARMA 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....
View ArticleARMA to rule on admitting scandal-hit FirstPort Retirement
FirstPort Retirement, formerly Peverel, should not be admitted to ARMA because it has an unaccounted-for portfolio of house managers’ flats and has a track record of misleading residents when trying to...
View ArticleARMA 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)...
View ArticleARMA 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...
View ArticleFormer Labour minister Sally Keeble is new ARMA regulator
@LKPleasehold @ARMAleasehold @FoPRA @LEASEonline – looking forward to working to improve standards for leaseholders & practice in the sector — Sally Keeble (@Sally_Keeble) July 29, 2016 Former New...
View ArticleARMA and the myth of self regulation
“Success in a Consumer Focused Future” is the misleading title of today’s ARMA trade body conference exclusively for those working in the industry. Members have just watched a role out of the framework...
View Article‘Drive your MPs mad to change leasehold,’ Gardner tells FPRA
Full speeches have been added to the end of this article Around 250 leaseholders met in London tonight to hear Baroness Gardner of Parkes say that reform of the troubled sector is very much on the...
View ArticleHousing minister makes a start with a round-table discussion of leasehold
On Wednesday the leasehold “industry” was given the opportunity to persuade Housing Minister Mark Prisk that it has cleaned up its act with new codes of practice and consumer charters. The...
View ArticleLEASE 2013: ‘Leasehold must reform, or media will sink their teeth in’
What a difference a year makes. In 2012 LEASE, the Leasehold Advisory Service, held its “annual conference” in a Mayfair hotel charging £310 a head and the event was a blatant trade show for the vested...
View ArticleLeasehold forfeiture: why is LEASE so pathetic over this, too?
LEASE is also under attack for failing to address the issue of leasehold forfeiture. LEASE happily tells freehold owners how to forfeit a lease, but does not tell leaseholders how to preserve their...
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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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