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The Department for Communities and Local Government has recently issued guidance on the question of whether or not an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) is required for holiday lets. The guidance confirms...
Service Charge Warning for Landlords – Daejan Investments Ltd v Benson and others
The landlord, as the freeholder of a block of flats and shops, gave notice to the leaseholders of the flats of its intention to carry out works amounting to £270,000. The tenants applied to the Leasehold...
Commercial property landlord and tenant disputes on the rise
New research by legal publisher Sweet & Maxwell has found that the number of High Court legal disputes between commercial property landlords and tenants has surged by 43 per cent.
Although most...
Changes to empty business rates
Currently business rates are not payable on non domestic properties which are empty and below a certain rateable value threshold. Between 1st April 2010 and 31st March 2011 that threshold was increased...
New guidance on the Mortgage Repossessions (Protection of Tenants etc) Act 2010
The Department for Communities and Local Government has published new Guidance to the Mortgage Repossessions (Protection of Tenants etc) Act 2010 (MRPTA).
The growth in the letting of property and the...
Rescission of Conditional Contract – McGahon v Crest Nicholson Regeneration Limited
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A buyer was contracted to purchase an underlease of a flat off-plan from a developer. The contract was conditional upon the grant to the developer of a headlease by the longstop date of 1 June...