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Landlords, let’s be reasonable: otherwise you might pay the price

By Indeg Kerr on Posted in Ownership, Real Estate (UK), Real Estate Management
Landlords take note, on the back of a recent case, you face an increased risk that tenants will challenge costs which they are responsible for in a lease. The case in question related to tenants’ challenge of  insurance costs the Tribunal found in favour of the tenants, because the costs incurred were considered to be … Continue Reading

Consent to Assign – taking the good with the bad.

By Katherine A. Campbell on Posted in Ownership, Real Estate (UK), Real Estate Management
The case of No.1 West India Quay (Residential) Ltd v East Tower Apartments Ltd surprised the legal profession in 2016 when the court held that one bad reason for refusing consent to assign a lease effectively trumped two other good reasons, making the landlord’s refusal unreasonable. This decision provides some welcome pragmatism for landlords, residential … Continue Reading

Attack of the Triffids: Knotweed nuisance cranks up a notch

By Indeg Kerr on Posted in Ownership, Real Estate (UK), Real Estate Development, Real Estate Investment, Real Estate Management
Investor, developer, indeed landowner in any capacity – recent rulings mean Japanese Knotweed is now more of a nuisance (and a costly one) than ever. With over 6000 UK locations identified as containing the weed, you best be clear on how to handle this inconvenient invader or you face ending up in a bind. What’s … Continue Reading

Placemaking without Lawbreaking

By Daniel Kyriakides and Sara Edwards on Posted in Real Estate (UK), Real Estate Development, Real Estate Management, Uncategorized
Placemaking? Mixed-used developments in and around London are in the midst of a golden era with the creation of mega-schemes such as those in Nine Elms and Old Oak. The new Wembley Park Development will see the creation of an unprecedented 7,000 apartments, surpassing the Olympic Village scheme in Stratford by some 4,000 residential units. … Continue Reading

Recovering Possession of Abandoned Residential Property

By Sarah Atkinson on Posted in Real Estate (UK), Real Estate Investment, Real Estate Management
The headline news from the Housing and Planning Act 2016 (the ‘Housing and Planning Act’) makes it look as though there is a good new solution to enable residential landlords to get their property back in their control when it has been abandoned.  In practice it contains a number of provisions that serve only to … Continue Reading
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