Property, Leasehold and Housing

Join us at News on the Block's unique boardroom brunch on current service charge challenges and how to address them on Wednesday 22nd March 10am to 3pm in London. This event event will allow you to join like-minded professionals to...

The House of Commons has released an accessible briefing paper, Anti-social neighbours living in private housing (England) , which summarises the legal position and potential remedies available where people find themselves living next to anti-social...

  Summary A leaseholder who is claiming a lease extension is bound by certain statutory time constraints, and the one that is arguably the most fateful is the deadline by which the leaseholder must apply to the First-tier Tribunal...

Original deeds and documents no longer have to be submitted when an application for first registration of unregistered freehold and leasehold estates in land is made by conveyancers. Certified copies of deeds and documents can be submitted instead of the...

In a recent appeal case the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) considered the issue of determining whether a service charge which was payable on account was "reasonable" for the purposes of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 s.19(2). CHARLES...

When a tenant signs a lease containing a conditional break clause, it is imperative that the tenant completely understands the conditions associated with exercising the right to break the tenancy and complies fully with the terms set out in the lease. It...

In the case of 4-6 Trinity Church Square Freehold Ltd v The Corporation of the Trinity House of Deptford Strond, the Upper Tribunal determined that if a qualifying tenant enjoys revocable rights under a lease, then when exercising the right to collective...

When a buyer or their representative makes pre-contract enquiries during the conveyance of property, accurate information must be given or damages for losses incurred by misrepresentations  will be payable if disclosure is not made; even if the market...

In a notable case concerning disrepair and service charges, The Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) recently held that a front entrance or communal door within a block of flats is not in disrepair merely because it has been modified or replaced. Southwark LBC v...

In the case of 4-6 Trinity Church Square Freehold Ltd v The Corporation of the Trinity House of Deptford Strond , the Upper Tribunal determined that if a qualifying tenant enjoys revocable rights under a lease, then when exercising the right to collective...