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FirstPort, formerly known as Peverel Limited, is a property management company owned by Knight Square and is based in the United Kingdom.^[1] It manages approximately 170,000 properties in the United Kingdom, with 160,000 in England and Wales and 10,000 in Scotland.^[2] It is the UK's biggest property manager.^[3]

FirstPort was originally founded as Launchcoin Limited in 2002. Vincent Tchenguiz brought the company in 2007,^[4] and it was renamed Peverel Property Management in September 2009.^[5] In March 2011, the company announced it was going into administration after Merrill Lynch required it to pay back substantial loans after a raid sparked by the collapse of the Icelandic Kaupthing bank.^[6] Zolfo Cooper managed the company's administration.^[7]

As a result of the company trading profitably through 2011, Chamonix Private Equity and Electra Private Equity bought the company and its subsidiaries in a £62 million deal. It announced that it was renaming its various property brands FirstPort Limited in September 2014 to bring all its brands under one roof.^[8]

The brands that FirstPort brought together were:

• Peverel Retirement
• Peverel Scotland
• Peverel Property Management
• OM Property Management,
• Consort Property Management
• Stonedale Property Management
• Pembertons Property Management
• Kingsborough Insurance Services
• Insero
• Marlborough House Management

Under the Peverel brand, it received substantial criticism for what residents described as excessive fees and poor service.^[9]. Tenants voiced that they did not receive the services they were paying for, and a number of residents have made tribunal claims relating to overcharging and a lack of maintenance. In addition, residents have stated that they have been overcharged on insurance. Other criticisms include tenant transfer fees of up to 2 percent when the property is transferred.

At the time, Peverel announced that it had closed down a number of offices and restructured large parts of the company to streamline the customer complaints procedure, particularly relating to Solitare, a company it purchased in 2008.^[10] In 2014, the Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA) Market Study was released, which highlighted the need to improve communication with those owning a leasehold property and to improve ways of managing tribunals across the industry.^[11] FirstPort, newly rebranded, welcomed the findings.