Increasing awareness of Leaseholders plight is essential in trying to force regulation of the PMC industry and when we were approached by the Daily Mail three weeks ago to tell our side of the story, we were more than happy to help. It’s been a hard secret to keep from visitors but we trust that today’s report in the ‘Money Mail’ section of the Daily Mail goes some way to promoting awareness. If you haven’t read the report, we’ve copied it for those of you that may [...]

From time to time, we try to highlight some of the cases that get reported to us by residents of properties that Solitaire Property Management are responsible. This time, we’ve received the following message from a homeowner of a George Wimpey Development in Maidstone:- Hi Thanks for your website, we have been a new property for 6 months and the first time solitaire contacted has was to give us a administration charge and threaten us with debt collectors. This company are only charging a few [...]

Most of the regular visitors to TTAS will be aware of CARLEX which is short for the Campaign Against Retirement Leasehold EXploitation and may have noticed that their website has been offline of late. We contacted CARLEX to bring this to their attention and they told us that their website is currently undergoing reconstruction. Although the CARLEX campaign is targetted at injustices for retired leaseholders, many of the issues are exactly the same as those being challenged by TTAS, and the companies are all in the [...]

It’s come to our attention that yesterday Estates & Management Ltd (Reg No: 03244100) had their Companies House listing changed and there is a proposal to strike off the company (screenshot below taken this morning) We are also in receipt of the GAZ1 document entry that details that the Registrar of Companies gives notice of three months, that the company will be struck off and dissolved! (This document is freely available for you to purchase from Companies House) Click here for the GAZ1 Document It’s possible that [...]

Peverel’s online feedback manager – ‘Andy’ – continues to tell us that things are improving and that he’s there to help, but we’d love to know where he gets his facts from, in regards to these improvements! Why do we say this?  Well, we receive hundreds of e-mails each week from homeowners, who’s properties are managed by Solitaire Property Management / Peverel Group Companies, telling us their woes, yet these type of messages haven’t reduced, if anythings they’ve increased and below we list an example of [...]

To try and encourage more residents / developments to undertake RTM and on the suggestion of a few contributors to TheTruthAboutSolitaire, we would like to hear from you if you are currently undertaking an RTM / LVT that involves any of the Consensus Business Group / Peverel Group companies, or you’ve been successful enough to get rid of them without the need of the above. It would be interesting to know just how many developments are currently trying to remove PG / CBG PMC’s and where [...]

On the suggestion of the latest TheTruthAboutSolitaire contributor ‘Worth’ – we’ve put together a dedicated page that lists all the companies (that we are currently aware of) – who are associated with/or part of either Consensus Business Group or Peverel Group Ltd. The reason for doing this is largely down to the sheer number of enquiries we receive, who ask whether XYZ company is part of CBG or Peverel.  Hopefully, by listing all of the companies associated – will make it clear just how complicated [...]

We hope that all of the recent technical difficulties experienced in the last few weeks are sorted and do apologise for the lack of Solitaire / Peverel related posts.  We trust you can all appreciate that our efforts have been focused on ensuring that TheTruthAboutSolitaire website was stable, before we re-commenced posting stories. Despite our technical problems, it has been great to see the contributions of TTAS visitors on the web site – some of which has been incredibly enlightening. Take for instance the comment added by ‘Neil’ yesterday, [...]

The ever growing list of Consensus Business Group of Property Management Companies never seems to surprise, by the sheer number of Freehold companies / PMC’s – that are associated with CBG. This time, it’s a new name that has been brought to our attention – namely Roselab Ltd – who are the freeholder of a development, that is managed by a company called ‘Pennycuick Collins’. The contributor who brough this to our attention sent the following message and would welcome any advice that other TTAS [...]

Residents from City Heights (victorious in one of the biggest LVT cases in the UK) have provided us with an update on how things are going following the LVT decision. Separate from the LVT decision the team running the City Heights LVT have been trying to trace and identify missing reserve funds for the six apartment blocks at City Heights ready for a handover to a new property management company on 01/04/2010 now they have sacked Solitaire. On Thursday 11 March 2010 Solitaire sent a further statement [...]