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Latest news:

The ARMA interview: How is ARMA helping its members during COVID?
New starters and promotions
Are we ready for Commonhold?
Cladding update
COVID19 v CLADDING20 - what are we doing now?
ARMA supports the latest cladding remediation report
Welcome Rob Chapman, Head of Legal & Compliance
H&S team become honorary consultants for FPRA

Latest insights:

Michael Fallon on facilitating the reopening of our offices

Posted 16/10/2020

Everyone wants to be a 'well-being', and during these troubled times, our Wellbeing team has been busier than ever. With COVID arriving on everyone’s doorsteps, it soon became pret...

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Posted 23/09/2020

Facing the facts

We ask - how effective can facial recognition technology be with the new enforcement of face masks, how might this technology fare in the future of the property industry, and how u...

Posted 10/09/2020

Building insurance set to increase

Many insurers are increasing their inflation index-linking percentage by between 6% and 8%, greater than the 2-3% we have seen this year. According to our Head of Insurance Steve ...

Posted 02/09/2020

The Building Design & Construction magazine feature

Earlier this year Building Design & Construction magazine interviewed the Heads of each of our brands to discover what makes a Group better than a single brand. Here we provi...

Posted 01/09/2020

We ask how has ARMA been helping its members during COVID?

Crabtree (one of the brands within the Fexco Property Services group) is a member of ARMA with close ties to the organisation via CEO, Nigel Glen. We asked Crabtree's MD – Chris Ma...

Posted 19/08/2020

New starters and promotions within the Group

Fexco Property Services is delighted to introduce our new Training Manager, and announce two important promotions for key members of our Crabtree brand. We welcome Kelly Banks as T...

Posted 31/07/2020

Are we ready for Commonhold?

We were ready back then, and we're even more ready now! Commonhold isn't new to us, back in June 2019 we were already looking at it. Being part of the larger Australian based Fex...

Posted 22/07/2020

When it comes to nuisance neighbours or intruding vandals - what can your Property Manager do?

Having a nice place to live is something we all want and strive for. Across the group, our Property Managers consider this a vital aspect to achieve. Most of the time the environm...

Posted 06/07/2020

Cladding update

According to a recent report by the Commons Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee - for those having to deal with potentially unsafe cladding on their building - the ...

Posted 25/06/2020

Contractors adapting to COVID19 - The Dayco interview

Maintaining operations during Covid19 was never going to be simple or easy. I spoke to one of our approved contractors to get their perspective on how life has changed for their bu...

Posted 16/06/2020

Cladding now - what are we doing?

Is it a case of COVID19 v CLADDING20? With Coronavirus taking up the majority of air space this year, it could be easy to assume that cladding has taken a back seat. So far, 202...

Posted 12/06/2020

Cladding: progress of remediation

Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee Report ‘Cladding: progress of remediation’ ARMA welcomes the publication of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Commi...

Posted 25/05/2020

Why do I have to pay a Service Charge/Estate Charge?

This can seem daunting when you first hear about it, so we would like to explain what a Service Charge is and what happens if you didn't have a managing agent in place. The yearly...

Posted 29/04/2020

How to manage property in unusual times?

The property sector has had a challenging few years, but who could have imagined that in the midst of the Cladding Crisis, Covid-19 would come knocking on our doors? In this blog, ...

Posted 26/02/2020

Cladding - The open letter to the Chancellor

In 2019 the specialist teams within the Fexco Property Services group began the process of planning for what would undoubtedly be the biggest issue the property sector would have t...