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Karin Holt

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karin.holt@mablaw.com

Karin heads up the New Homes team and deals with new homes, other estates development and domestic property work, as well as acting for management companies. She also acts for developers in site acquisitions and plot sales and as recommended solicitor for plot purchasers and other related legal work with regard to estates development, second hand sales and purchases, and legal work for management companies. Karin works for a large numbers of specilist clients including Ashmount Properties Ltd, Banner Homes Ltd, Barclay Building Contractors Ltd, Beckley Homes Ltd, Bugler Homes Ltd, CNL Developments Ltd, Concept Development Solutions Limited, D B Rees (Builders) Ltd, TFC Estates Ltd, Glenridge Group of Companies, Linden Homes Ltd and the Micasa Group of Companies.

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Government set to release more land for housebuilding

16 November 2011 | Karin Holt

The Financial Times newspaper reported on Monday that the Government is expected to announce a big increase in the number of government-owned brownfield sites that will be made available for building new...

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Consumer Code for Home Builders: are you compliant?

20 May 2010 | Karin Holt

The Consumer Code for Home Builders (‘The Code’) came into effect on 1 April 2010. It does not apply retrospectively. The intention of the Code is to give buyers more protection when acquiring a...

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Housing: where do the main political parties stand?

26 April 2010 | Karin Holt

With the general election only a matter of days away, this briefing looks at what the three main political parties have proposed for the housing sector in their recent policy statements and election manifestos....

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Building without planning consent

12 February 2010 | Karin Holt | 1 comment

The media has recently reported on three cases regarding building on property without planning consent. Sir Cliff Richard and his conservatory Runnymede Council ordered Sir Cliff Richard to demolish...

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Inappropriate residential garden development due to lack of council policies

27 January 2010 | Karin Holt

On 19 January 2010, the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) published its investigation into residential development on gardens in England. "Garden grabbing" has become a contentious...

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Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 2009 coming into force (developers/landowners – don’t stop reading here, it is explained!)

27 January 2010 | Karin Holt

The Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 2009 (PAA 2009) received Royal Assent on 12 November 2009 and will come into force on 6 April 2010. From 6 April 2010, the rule against perpetuities will only...

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Landmark ruling sees developers awarded damages from buyers who reneged on contracts

21 January 2010 | Karin Holt | 1 comment

A court in Bristol has awarded damages of £133,000 to Prestige Homes South West after an investor pulled out of a deal to buy two flats at its Zero 4 development in Plymouth. The unnamed investor...

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