Savings for Clients
Value for money - to us this means more than just competitive tendering. Adding value is about using expertise and creativity to save or to set a strategic path to deliver an outcome. This page is dedicated to Ringley hero’s who have saved their Clients' money.

Saved £30,000

St Dunstans
How did we do it?
Ringley took over the management of a multi-block site in 2011 and as part of the handover, Ringleys inherited phase one of a two phase external refurbishment scheme from another Chartered Surveyors. Ringleys managed the project in 2013 and managed to save approximately £30,000 by carefully tendering and administering the contract.

Saved £30,000

Lymington Court
How did we do it?
The developer's budget failed to match all allowable service charge items in the Housing Association transfer. We went back and collected 6 years extra expenses - some £30,000.

Saved £35,000

Cuthberts
How did we do it?
We inherited this 4 flat block with 1 flat owing over 42K service charges which several previous Agents had failed to collect. Ringley Law settled the case delivering over 35K.

Saved £37,787

Morello
How did we do it?
£37,787.20 savings made up of £9,435.31 and £25,531.89 from the developer for construction water and electricity use respectively. £1,500 towards the gates motor failures and £1,320 towards window cleaning not done before leaving site.

Saved £39,791

Velocity Villiage
How did we do it?

The asset management team undertook an invoice utility analysis where it came to light that the previous agents had paid 20% VAT rather than 5% over the last five years. A VAT declaration was completed and the overpayment on VAT was returned to the client account.

Saved £41,000

Geneva Court
How did we do it?
Ringley worked closely with Genesis Housing to secure additional contributions to the service charge pot of £41,000 within the first 3 months of being appointed. Something that simply seemed beyond our previous Agent.

Saved £45,000

Woodside Park
How did we do it?
We inherited this site when they were faced with an excessive specification for car park re-surfacing the cost of which meant that they would not have been able to carry out other much needed works. Ringley's Engineers bechmarked the specification and went back to tender and achieved a £45,000 saving.

Saved £45,000

Avante Court
How did we do it?
Built about 2002 this block of 100 flats was suffering from badly stained pigmented render due to the absence of coping stones to throw water clear. Our role was to cost the options of (1) cleaning (2) painting and to overcome expensive access issues.

Saved £50,000

Velocity Villiage
How did we do it?

The asset management team reviewed the amount which was being spent on the cleaning contractors, saved the client £50k by using TUPE the staff over to the site staff team which resulted in a financial saving and no jobs were lost for the staff.

Saved £58,444

Geneva Court
How did we do it?
We took over this bankrupt RTM company from Peverel with no cashflow, spiralling budgets and huge deficits. Within 3 months of handover through negotiations and building trust with owners we delivered sufficient cash to keep trading, and ring fenced the reserve funds so they were not robbed also.

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