Before you take a lease of new premises, it can be easy to not think about what happens when a lease comes to an end. However, tenants need to be thinking about what their repairing liability is under a lease is before they enter into the...
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The current hot topic in contentious property matters is boundary disputes. Following the series of Covid lockdowns, we have all been more confined to our homes a lot more. Therefore, issues that may otherwise have been able to be settled quite...
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Are you a house builder who wishes to sell the freehold reversion of either an apartment block or a leasehold mixed-use development? The right of first refusal under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 (the Act), makes this more complicated than you...
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What are Building Regulations? The UK Planning Portal defines Building Regulations as being the “minimum standards for design, construction, and alterations to virtually every building”. In practice, Building Regulations control the methods...
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Most flat leases are granted for an initial term of 99 or 125 years. If the lease isn’t renewed at the end of the term, the flat becomes the Landlord’s property again. This means that as the years pass by, the flat becomes less valuable. ...
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The question most commonly asked by landlords is, do I still have to repair items in the property if my tenant isn’t paying their rent? The answer is yes. Section 11 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, sets out the Landlord’s requirements of...
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Many businesses have premises that they operate from, for example, coffee shops, retail shops, and warehouses. The lease is the document which records the agreement between the Landlord and the Tenant. A lot can go wrong, if you don’t know what...
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What is Ground Rent? In order to enforce the terms of a Lease, a Ground Rent must be set. This is generally in the form of a Tenant paying an ongoing sum of money to the Freeholder on an annual basis. This is because a Leasehold title (i.e....
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After a suspension of all possession matters in 2020, the Court finally re-commenced the re-listing of thousands of matters which were either due to be heard, or new matters that were issued by the Courts, albeit with a new procedure – the...
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Whilst it was reported in the media that there was a ‘ban’ on evictions when the pandemic took hold last March, in terms of Residential Housing Possession, what actually took place was a change in expiry periods when serving a Notice. This...
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