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Draft bill excludes community housing leases from new rules prohibiting the charging of financial ground rents on new, long residential leases .

Although the implementation date for component accounting has been pushed back to March 2012, it may be worth looking at adopting it sooner rather than later.

We are finding that some of our clients are shocked by the recent radical changes to the system of court fees.

Over the years since the Tribunals Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 received Royal Assent, we have been constantly asked when Commercial Rent Arrears Recovery will replace the landlord self-help remedy of distress.

We continue to see a high demand for data centres. Far from being ‘big sheds with lots of M&E', they are technically complex, challenging projects which can give rise to all manner...

It's almost impossible to leave premises in absolutely perfect repair at the end of a lease.

People are renting now more than ever because of the difficulty in getting mortgages and the lack of affordable housing. As such the landlord and tenant relationship is more prevalent than ever.

The Court of Appeal referred the case of R on the application of “Mellor v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government” to the ECJ for a preliminary ruling on the interpretation of the 1985 Environmental Impact Assessment Directive and whether or not it is necessary to give reasons for the determination not to require an EIA when evaluating a request for planning permission to build a hospital.

Energy performance of commercial buildings is a key element in the government's drive both to reduce the UK's emissions in the push towards net zero emissions by 2050 and to ...

Energy efficiency in the private rented sector is set to become increasingly significant in the next few years, and landlords will find themselves having to pay much closer attention to efficiency ratings stated on Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs).

Recent uncertainty in the market has led to the concept of flexibility becoming a top priority for many corporate occupiers when looking for space and negotiating terms for a new lease.

The recent case of Greening-v-Castelnau Mansions, decided by the Upper Tribunal, provides a timely reminder of the increasing difficulty landlords face in recovering legal costs and other professional fees in the absence of a clear covenant in the lease.

We have posted previously about the case of EMI Group Ltd v O&H Q1 Ltd, in which the court was asked to decide whether a tenant can assign its tenancy to its guarantor.

Good Practice is a power introduced by the Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 and has been developed through consultation with residents and landlords.

Last year, a legislative amendment designed to solve an anomaly whereby tenants with unprotected, or minor, tenancies receive less ‘disturbance' compensation under a CPO than either licensees or tenants with protected tenancies has, for HS2 compensation claimants, ended up creating a two-tier compensation system.

As a property litigator, over the past couple of years I have noticed a marked change in the nature of cases landing on my desk; more contested dilapidation claims, challenges on the validity of break options and claims against former tenants and guarantors.

The Law Commission has issued an interim statement on the reform of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (the Act).

In Greater Manchester, despite solid progress being made on the regeneration agenda, housing supply has stubbornly lagged behind forecast need.