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Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs ("HMRC") has finally announced that it has changed its policy on the VAT treatment of a payment made by a landlord to a tenant as an inducement to the tenant to enter into a new lease.

Japanese knotweed has become a significant concern for landlords across the United Kingdom. Its invasive nature and potential to cause damage to properties have led to legal complexities...

There are a small number of types of construction projects which are excluded, by virtue of section 105(2) from the adjudication provisions of the Housing Grants Act.

M&S's Christmas campaign focuses on two good fairies doing good deeds.

Chapter 1 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 gave tenants of long leasehold flats acting together the right to purchase the freehold of their building.

The festive season may herald a less than welcome surprise for some tenants this year as the fifth anniversary of the introduction of SDLT on 1 December 2008 brings with it the spectre of additional SDLT charges.

The leaseholder protection provisions of the Building Safety Act 2022 ("the BSA") have attracted a vast amount of criticism.

As a litigator, I regularly act for landlords or tenants where disputes have arisen in relation to their commercial lease and only too often I hear phrases like "I wish I'd known my lease said that" or "I wish I had insisted on including that provision in my lease".

Owners, Purchasers and Tenants of real estate - to protect your interests you should always find out if contractual rights of recourse to the construction team are available for your benefit (whether in the form of collateral warranties or otherwise) - a failure to do so could lose you a valuable right.

Interim rent is rent payable after the expiry of the contractual term of a 1954 Act protected lease and before a formal lease renewal has been completed.

As of 1 April 2018, both domestic and non-domestic rental properties over which a new tenancy is to be granted must have an EPC rating of ‘E' or above. This requirement also applies to lease...

Landlords are likely to lose the most effective method of collecting rent arrears. The draft Tribunals Courts and Enforcement Bill proposes to abolish the right to distrain. The Bill proposes to replace distress with a statutory procedure to be known as commercial rent arrears recovery or CRAR. CRAR will share many of the features of distress but with crucial differences likely to make the remedy less effective.

Most commercial leases contain a requirement for the tenant to pay the annual rent by equal quarterly payments in advance.

The Court of Appeal recently considered an appeal from a claim against a landlord for damages for breach of his statutory duty.