Common Ground Estate & Property Management Ltd

I am one of the Directors of 103 apartments at Carruthers Court Newbury. Imran Alam has been exceptional, professional, communitive, caring and understanding of our needs with a get done attitude since he was appointed to look after our properties. We are very lucky to have him and is a credit to Common Ground, we all very much look forward to continuing working with him to achieve our goals and making sure our building is kept up to scratch.

Having rented a flat at an estate managed by Common Ground for over 5 years, I can confirm their standards have gone downhill since Covid. Several issues not fixed / ignored for years, and now they are trying to introduce pretty unreasonable parking restrictions for residents. Both my and my landlords’ emails completely ignored - I may need to get my local MP on their case. As someone looking to buy a property in not so distant future, I will need to make sure that it has nothing to do with Common Ground

Moved to a Block of flats managed by Common Ground last year, after a few weeks realised that there were VERY noisy neighbours living upstairs. They would come home late at night banging doors as loud as they could and shouting like animals all night long. Contacted Common Ground to complain about it and they replied “thank you for the information” but weeks went past and nothing was done about it. Spoke to the Estate Agent and they contacted Common Ground, once again nothing was done. Several complaints were made about this problem, not just by myself but by other tenants as well and Common Ground did absolute nothing to resolve the problem. Now more than 12 months since the first complaint was made I found myself completely helpless and desperate having to find another place to live because I can’t sleep at night, and Common Ground won’t do anything about it. Moving into this court was the worst thing that even happened to me.

We let and manage a number of the properties in the residential developments looked after by Common Ground, across Oxfordshire. From a letting agents’ perspective, they are very good block managers, responsive and have a high level of integrity. We would happily recommend them.

I've been a resident of St George's Manor (Oxford) for over 20 years and until we appointed Common Ground to manage our development we had to endure the incompetence First Port (formally Peveral OM) for too long. Alan Draper and his team do an outstanding job of managing St George's Manor - in what could be considered an impossible task of balancing budget and service.