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In yet another Home Office "u-turn" was reported last week in the Guardian with regard to the recently announced changes to the immigration rules. The Home Office has now decided...

Some of the country’s biggest landlords have won a legal battle allowing them to overturn the law on payment of rent as an expense of an administration.

Retail landlords and tenants have been amongst the worst affected by the recent civil disorder. For some tenants it may be the end of their business but for most it is now a matter of minimising the disruption to their operations.

The court was prepared to provide for immediate release of administrators from office and to wind up a company without presentation of a petition.

When faced with the problem of tenant rent arrears, many landlords elect to irritate the lease to try to secure payment.

The present recession and property downturn sees the return of 1990s' conditions for lender claims. Those of us who were in the front line for the professionals have the benefit of the lessons we then learned, but equally face new challenges in dealing with the anticipated new onslaught.

The case of Clear Call Limited – v – Central London Investments Limited [2016] EWCA Civ 1231 [2017] provides further guidance of the application of the Ladd – v – Marshall...

A recent appeal court decision has confirmed that a tenant of land exceeding two acres which is let from year to year must only give 40 days’ notice to terminate the lease.

John Stephenson, Senior Partner at BDB, believes that the Supreme Court ruling that a house in English law must involve a substantial element which is used or usable as a residential dwelling is one of the most decisive, unequivocal rulings he has ever seen.

The recent Court of Appeal decision of "Robinson and others -v- Oram and another" [2011] EWCA Civ 1258 (8 November 2011) ("Robinson") represents a small victory for landlords in the ever tenant-friendly world of service charge disputes, and gives some hope that all may not be lost in recovering legal costs incurred in LVT proceedings.

On 29 August 2020, the Government introduced further changes which restrict the termination of residential tenancies in England.

It's fascinating to reflect on the changes in the UK housing market over the past 15 years. Indeed, purchasing a home in the 1990s was a vastly different experience...

Since 6 April 2011, the rules in Chapter 1 of the Competition Act 1998 (‘Chapter 1’) have applied to all land agreements (including commercial leases).

The first stage of the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard came into force in April 2018, affecting schools that act as landlords for their properties.

Last week, the UK government introduced the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill

In the case of E.On v Gilesports [2012] EWHC 2172 (Ch), tenants were reminded of the harsh consequences of not following the procedure for seeking the landlord’s consent to an assignment and deciding to go through an assignment without consent.