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Having fraudster Simon van Houten manage our flats cost us £100,000
Fraudster managing agent Simon van Houten, 31, (left) told residents he had dismissed their caretaker … only for them to discover that the man was still on the payroll two years later. The £32,000 in...
View ArticleLeaseholders’ money ‘safe’ from £1.3 million fraudster at Hurford Salvi Carr
A rogue financial controller at property company Hurford Salvi Carr who plundered client accounts of £1.3 million did not make off with leaseholder funds. Stephen Hurford told LKP that the block...
View ArticleA gift from Tchenguiz is one to decline
A tactic to undermine residents’ right to manage ambitions by Estates and Management – which manages the various freehold vehicles of the Tchenguiz Family Trust, based in the British Virgin Islands –...
View ArticleRedrow boss Steve Morgan talks to LKP
It was back to the boom days last night for a champagne reception at the top of the Gherkin tower in the City. The event was hosted by Steve Morgan, legendary founder of Redrow, who was launching his...
View ArticleSt George’s under new management
After the £1 million fiasco at St George Wharf, new managing agent wins an award! Last September, the Berkeley Group paid out £1 million to residents at the landmark St George Wharf (left), in...
View ArticleExecutive guilty of plundering £122,000 from managing agents Rendall and Rittner
An executive with managing agents Rendall and Rittner pleaded guilty on Monday to stealing £122,000 from his employers’ accounts. Simon van Houten, 31, from Southend in Essex, used bogus company...
View ArticleVan Houten abused trust of clients and colleagues, says Rendall and Rittner
The property management company Rendall and Rittner has made a statement to LKP about its former executive Simon van Houten, 31, who faces jail next week after pleading guilty to stealing £122,000 at...
View ArticleFraudster managing agent gets 30 months jail for using East Londoners’ cash...
Simon van Houten, 31, was given a 30-month prison sentence at the Old Bailey this afternoon after pleading guilty to stealing £122,000 from leasehold service charge accounts held by London managing...
View ArticleWhat is LKP?
The Leasehold Knowledge Partnership exists to protect ordinary leaseholders from being fleeced by landlords and their agents. They exploit the many opportunities offered by this flawed form of property...
View ArticleRendall and Rittner ‘confident’ to prevent another Simon Van Houten fraudster
Managing agents Rendall and Rittner has “initiated a series of internal and external reviews of our systems and procedures” following the jailing last month of its employee Simon Van Houten, 31, for...
View ArticleHaving fraudster Simon van Houten manage our flats cost us £100,000
Fraudster managing agent Simon van Houten, 31, (left) told residents he had dismissed their caretaker … only for them to discover that the man was still on the payroll two years later. The £32,000 in...
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Leaseholders’ money ‘safe’ from £1.3 million fraudster at Hurford Salvi Carr
A rogue financial controller at property company Hurford Salvi Carr who plundered client accounts of £1.3 million did not make off with leaseholder funds. Stephen Hurford told LKP that the block...
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A gift from Tchenguiz is one to decline
A tactic to undermine residents’ right to manage ambitions by Estates and Management – which manages the various freehold vehicles of the Tchenguiz Family Trust, based in the British Virgin Islands –...
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Rendall and Rittner buys Braemar Estates
… and Braemar Estates only manages 14% of the Ground Rents Income Fund plc LKP asked Braemar Estates for clarification of its relationship with the publicly quoted Ground Rents Income Fund plc. It owns...
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VAT on house managers’ wages will cost leaseholders £50m a year
Changes to impose VAT on the salaries of house managers and concierges in blocks of flats will add £50 million to service charges, Rendall and Rittner tells LKP. Founder Duncan Rendall said: “This is a...
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Battle for Canary Riverside resumes after court appointed manager steps down
The toxic disputes between leaseholders at Canary Riverside and their freehold owner John Christodoulou had another airing over three days in the property tribunal this week. At issue is the decision...
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Telegraph says buy Ground Rents Income Fund plc, which has fallen 31.6% and...
The Daily Telegraph share tipster Questor this week obligingly gave a puff to the troubled £73.5 million Ground Rents Income Fund plc, which has fallen 31.6% and recently lost a multi-million court...
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Has The Times report ended bnb raves at West India Quay – where landlord John...
The Times’s report of unlawful bnb raves at the prime London Docklands site West India Quay may have stopped flats being rented out where landlord John Christodoulou and property manager Rendall and...
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Rendall and Rittner … no insurance commissions, but it owns an offshore...
Rendall & Rittner, a leading managing agent, boasts to leaseholders that it does not take commissions on block insurance, but it does own an offshore ‘captive’ insurance company in Guernsey that...
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Financial Conduct Authority under pressure to force open secretive insurance...
By Harry Scoffin The City regulator is facing calls – long made by Leasehold Knowledge Partnership – to close a loophole that allows building owners to inflate insurance premiums, of which commissions...
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