This is a recent decision in the Court of Appeal, concerning a claim for collective enfranchisement (right to purchase of a freehold) and the rights of the leaseholders over the surrounding gardens. Within a collective enfranchisement claim, the...
Last week’s decision in the Supreme Court in this case, is of general interest, with regard to Contract Law. The Supreme Court determined that an oral variation of a contract was ineffective, where there was a “no oral modification” clause...
Queen’s Park Rangers Football Club has won a dispute over building on a site within protected Metropolitan Open Land (MOL). The site had been used by the public since the 1960s for sport and recreation. The proposed development was for the demolition...
A landlord has won her appeal that she was not affected by recent changes in the law and so her notice to repossess her property was valid. The case involved a landlord who rented out her house in 2007 on an oral monthly tenancy. She sought repossession in...
Growth in house prices in the UK slowed down in 2017, according to the latest figures from the House Price Index. The annual growth rate for 2017 was 4.8%, compared with 7% in 2016. On a calendar year basis, that is the lowest rise since 2013. The figures...
The High Court has stopped a homeowner carrying out work that could cause damage to his neighbour’s property. The issue arose because the two sides shared a party wall. The homeowner started excavation work exposing the foundations of the wall without...
The Court of Appeal recently dismissed the eagerly anticipated appeal in the case of Mundy v the Sloane Stanley Estate. Had the result gone the other way, it would potentially have had quite a dramatic impact on the prices of the premiums that leaseholders...
New rules for dispositions of registered land using electronic documents with electronic signatures have been made. The Land Registration (Amendment) Rules 2018 amend the Land Registration Rules, which make detailed provision for land registration in...
In the Housing and Planning Act 2016 (HPA 2016), the government introduced a series of provisions that were intended to increase transparency and fairness for residential tenants. Section 131 of the HPA 2016 inserted a new paragraph 5A into Schedule 11 to...
When a County Court Judge granted an injunction requiring lessees to remove their dog, Vinnie, a Yorkshire/Maltese cross-breed, from premises, the Judge was right to decide that the property management company had complied with its implied obligation to...
