Newton Property Management
View company profile →
Newton = Electric Bill Highwaymen
Newton = Electric Bill Highwaymen I shall start my adding that Lana in Aberdeen is very good and has responded quickly to any queries that I may have. I have no issue at all with her services. My issue though is with the electric bills for communal areas. I have a flat in Chapel Street, Aberdeen now factored by Newton. Previously 20.5p/kWh and 34.6p/day when with Atholl's but changed to 34.2p/kWh and £2.06/day with Newton. There was a debacle around non-payment of bills which another reviewer has commented on and this has been, apparently, sorted out. Newton carried out a review to sort out the billing and secure a rate going forward. They have now set-up a tariff with their broker of 24.43p/kWh and £2.06/day. This is extremely disconcerting given my flat in a similar development in Ferryhill (also through a factor and also a commercial tariff) is 23.7p/kWh and £1.17/day. After many emails requiring clarification, I today received a response telling me that it's a commercial tariff (so is Ferryhill), it's easier for them to manage (I should hope so at ~£1 more than Ferryhill) and that it is a 100% green supply (absolute waffle, I'm an electrical engineer) but absolutely no justification as to why the tariff is so expensive other than aforementioned soft-centred points. Whilst they did say that Newton didn't receive commission, they could not provide any details on their broker's fees, which I suspect to be hefty. I firmly believe that as a development's factors, Newton should be carefully selecting suppliers and able to provide some evidence of cost-benefit.