Can the wood now be seen from the trees on village greens?
Today's Supreme Court joint decision on village greens involving a site in Surrey on land owned by NHS Property Services (the NHSPS Case)1 and also...
11th Dec 2019 Read moreLexology – Daily Feed
On Appeal: Cases for landlords to look out for in 2020
2020 looks set to be a busy year for private sector landlords in England and Wales. In England, key pieces of legislation that came into force in...
11th Dec 2019 Read moreBusy lenders' monthly round-up - December 2019
According to Financial Times’ sources, there are now active discussions between the Treasury and the FCA following queries raised as to whether a...
11th Dec 2019 Read moreExperiential retailing - issues for landlords and fashion brands
Is experiential retail the way forward for retail landlords and fashion brands alike given the inexorable power of the online channel? If so, what are...
11th Dec 2019 Read more‘Negotiating damages’ following One Step (Support) Ltd v Morris-Garner
You act for a claimant who has the benefit of a restrictive covenant prohibiting the development of more than one house on a plot land adjacent to...
10th Dec 2019 Read moreProperty, Chancery and Commercial Briefing - December 2019
Welcome to 1 Chancery Lane's Christmas Property, Chancery & Commercial Law briefing. This edition's contributors are all new members of Chambers who...
10th Dec 2019 Read moreMinimum Energy Efficiency Standards - time to rethink your strategy?
An increasing number of developers, investors and occupiers are putting sustainability at the heart of their business plans and real estate strategies...
10th Dec 2019 Read moreReal Estate Tip of the Week: Reasonably Withholding Consent
Reasonably Withholding Consent Lease covenants that require landlords to act reasonably when tenants seek their consent (known as "fully qualified"...
9th Dec 2019 Read morePreventing Property Fraud
For most people the property you own will be your most valuable asset. This in turn makes property at risk of fraudulent activity owing to the value...
9th Dec 2019 Read moreElectronic Communications Code 2017 (Code) case update
Another day, another telecoms case…there have been three recent cases dealing with the use of interim rights for access to survey, the...
9th Dec 2019 Read moreCommercial Property-Winter 2019
The recent outcry surrounding climate change has spawned a government consultation proposing the rapid extension of Minimum Energy Efficiency...
7th Dec 2019 Read moreConfirmation from the Court of Appeal: Exercising CRAR will waive a right to forfeit
In an earlier blog we discussed the High Court decision in the case of Thirunavukkrasu v Brar & Brar. The High Court confirmed that taking action...
6th Dec 2019 Read moreGeneral Election 2019: Vote Planning
The 2019 General Election is taking place against a backdrop of real controversy about the nature and the role of Government. The fault lines in the...
6th Dec 2019 Read moreProperty funds closing the exit doors
The open ended real estate funds market faced its latest challenge this week following the suspension by M&G of its property fund. We have been here...
6th Dec 2019 Read moreExecution of contract: Whether an electronic email signature is sufficient to deem satisfactory execution of a contract (Neocleous v Rees 2019)
Addressing whether an automatically generated email signature is considered as being signed for the purposes of satisfying section 2 of the Law of...
6th Dec 2019 Read moreCIL Amendment Regulations - monitoring costs
Recent CIL Amendment Regulations removed pooling restrictions and introduced Annual Infrastructure Statements as a successor to Regulation 123 Lists...
6th Dec 2019 Read moreGetting the balance right: Further changes to the Residential Tenancies Act
Protecting the rights of both landlord and tenant is a delicate balancing act. The Residential Tenancies Amendment Bill 2019, introduced into the...
5th Dec 2019 Read moreWhat are the consequences of taking money from a rent deposit if the tenant company is in administration?
If administrators use leased property for the benefit of the administration, rent is payable to the landlord for the period of occupation, as an...
5th Dec 2019 Read moreShared ownership reforms to allow thousands to buy their own home
Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has confirmed that the initial minimum stake for a shared ownership property will be reduced to 10, giving thousands...
5th Dec 2019 Read moreIncrease in value of estates being inherited entirely due to house price inflation
The increase in the value of estates being inherited over the last five years is entirely due to property price inflation, UK private wealth law firm...
4th Dec 2019 Read moreDilapidations: an unfair result for the tenant?
The recent Scottish case of Drum Income Plus Ltd v LS Buchanan Ltd involved a claim for dilapidations by a landlord against their former tenant for...
4th Dec 2019 Read moreHorizon Scanning UK Real Estate 2020 - December 2019
In the following pages, the Linklatersâ team have set out their take on a handful of the themes that have shaped the past year in...
4th Dec 2019 Read moreThe battle to build a million new homes
The UK’s housing crisis is again taking centre stage in the pre-general election debate. The figures from the two main political parties are similar...
4th Dec 2019 Read moreCommercial leases - a world apart from assured shorthold tenancies
With residential property investors increasingly adding commercial properties to their portfolios, Jonathan Wood outlines how commercial leases...
4th Dec 2019 Read moreDoes the exercise of CRAR waive the right to forfeit?
The Court of Appeal was asked to consider this question in the case of Brar v. Thirunavukkrasu, in which Judgment was handed down yesterday. The...
4th Dec 2019 Read moreAccess: don’t forget about rights of way
The case of Kolhe v Robertson highlights the continuing importance of public rights of way and the implications that those rights may have for...
3rd Dec 2019 Read moreRegistration of Overseas Entities - A lender's view
With the announcement of the general election, the passing of the Registration of Overseas Entities Bill (Bill) has been delayed. Despite this, it is...
3rd Dec 2019 Read moreA reminder that planning permission may not be bought!
In R (on the application of Wright) v Resilient Energy Severndale Ltd and Forest Dean District Council, the Supreme Court has confirmed that the...
3rd Dec 2019 Read moreThe latest changes to the Community Infrastructure Levy
The Community Infrastructure Levy Regulations 2010 allow local authorities to charge a community infrastructure levy (CIL) on new developments to...
3rd Dec 2019 Read moreEasements, equity and land registration
The case of Pezaro -v- Bourne 2019 EWHC 1964 (Ch) is an interesting case for those of us who spend a lot of our time arguing, advising and...
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