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September 2024

  • Spotlight on Building Safety: key developments under the Building Safety Act 2022
  • Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Act: a quick guide for housebuilders and residential developers
  • What is a sustainable building?
  • New Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive
  • Environmental weekly news round-up
  • Listen now: pace over perfection – Labour’s planning reforms

June 2024

  • Risks and rewards: the use of AI in real estate
  • New JCT Design and Build Contract 2024 published
  • High Street Rental Auctions: coming soon?
  • Will green leases, green finance and EPCs help to reduce the property industry’s environmental footprint?
  • Environmental weekly news round-up

March 2024

  • Report: what's on the horizon for 2024?
  • Register of contractual controls on land –consultation period drawing to a close
  • Environmental weekly news round up
  • Reduced opening hours: the part-time High Street
  • PFAS regulation: what’s the impact on development projects?
  • Apprenticeship contracts: six traps for the unwary

December 2023

  • LURA condensed: summarising the planning provisions in the Levelling-Up & Regeneration Act
  • Environmental news round up – 1 December 2023
  • The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023: an overview
  • Podcast: Renters (Reform) Bill – where are we now?
  • The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill receives its first reading

September 2023

  • Upcoming deadline for registration of higher-risk buildings: ensuring safety and compliance
  • Environmental news round up - 1 September 2023
  • LURB watch: the nutrient amendments have landed
  • Updating the Register of Overseas Entities – what are the practical implications?
  • Why clarity matters

June 2023

  • Report: the future of estates
  • Landlord succeeds in obtaining a (very) early redevelopment break right on renewal
  • Will 2023 be the year of MMC?
  • New section 8 grounds and the survival of ‘no-fault’ evictions
     

March 2023

  • Budget 2023 – what does it mean for planning and development?
  • MEES changes are imminent – landlords must act
  • Report: Redefining the Office
  • Supreme Court backs residents against Tate Modern in viewing gallery case
  • Abolishing leasehold – is this the answer?

December 2022

  • Register of Overseas Entities – three key changes after 31 January 2023
  • MEES Changes, April 2023
  • Business interruption insurance revisited
  • CIL side: what are the implications of the Supreme Court decision in Hillside?
  • Fly-tipping and consequences for landowners

September 2022

  • Register of Overseas Entities – six key questions answered
  • Is co-retailing the answer?
  • A matter of trusts
  • The potential alternatives to terminal dilapidations
  • Water woes: what role can the planning system play in holding water companies to account?
  • Listen now: ESG and the Corporate Occupiers of Real Estate

June 2022

  • What does the Economic Crime Act mean for lenders?
  • New climate-related financial disclosure requirements for companies
  • The beginning of the end of environmental impact assessments
  • Limiting and excluding liability in your professional appointments
  • Get up to speed with green loans

March 2022

  • Understanding the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act 2022
  • End of COVID-19 rules: what employers need to know
  • Diddly Squat Farm and the issues surrounding farm diversification
  • Ignore the lease at your peril
  • Revisiting conveyancing fraud

December 2021

  • A final nail in the coffin in the defence of rent debt claims
  • Government measures are a long way off from solving the cladding crisis
  • Energy performance certificates: understanding the growing relevance for homeowners
  • Moving up a gear: why parking is a valuable commodity
  • Building Safety Bill – beware longer limitations
  • Listen now: navigating the new Commercial Rent Coronavirus Bill

September 2021

  • Latest commercial property coronavirus measures provide clarity but beg questions too
  • Vacant possession: Court of Appeal restores status quo
  • The future challenges of MEES
  • To challenge or not to challenge – ‘when’ is the question
  • Do I own my front door? Landlord’s fixtures explained

June 2021

  • Returning to the office to work? Key issues employers need to consider before 21 June
  • Is new law the answer to trespass?
  • An overview of the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill
  • CVAs and restructuring plans
  • Webinar recording: Freeports and the opportunities they offer beyond logistics

March 2021

  • Government comes to the rescue of tenants once again
  • Dancing in the Street: What will 2021 bring to the hospitality sector?
  • Electronic Communications Code: the gift that keeps on giving
  • Will dilapidations disputes increase in the post‑pandemic world?
  • Party walls – the basics

September 2020

  • Unlocking Potential for Senior Living Development
  • The future of leases: retail
  • Enforcement covenants, a breach too far
  • Planning reform
  • Time to take note

May 2020 

  • Could coronavirus measures do more to help landlords?
  • Can planning reinvigorate our high streets?
  • Can you expect a duty of loyalty from hired experts?
  • Supreme Court rules on registration of land as a town or village green
  • Coronavirus: Immunity from enforcement

November 2019

  • Clarity given over Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) rates and residential land
  • Tenant Fees Act 2019 – landlords beware
  • Court of Appeal sides with developers over Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) regulations
  • Adjudication rules remain work in progress
  • Time to set some boundaries

August 2019

  • How can prescriptive rights can be used to develop land?
  • Climate change, renewable energy systems, and their impact on development proposals
  • Retail leases: a three-part guide
  • Why adjudication doesn't have be procedurally perfect to produce a binding result
  • IR35 and its impact on real estate

April 2019

  • The millennial “mates” mortgage for four
  • Did Brexit frustrate the European Medicines Agency's lease?
  • The new Electronic Communications Code and calculating rent
  • Housing and infrastructure high on Spring Statement agenda

February 2019

  • Landlords of multi-let properties beware
  • You’re late, you’re late for a very important date
  • Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) deadline day looms 
  • Cracking down on the code: New Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) professional statement for commercial service charges
  • Insolvency and adjudication: Bresco, Primus et al

Winter 2018

  • What the judgment in S Franses Limited v The Cavendish Hotel London Limited means for landlords
  • Fight for your right (to party)
  • Proposed changes to management of residential freehold service charges  
  • Message received, loud and clear – Our case law round-up
  • Breach of restrictive covenants – a cautionary tale for developers
  • Are you ready (for completion)?

Autumn 2018

  • Up the injunction
  • The only way is ethics (or, high passion in the rates department)
  • A knotty issue: what should I do if I find one of the 'world's worst invasive species' on my land?
  • Silence is not golden – a warning 
  • Can I estopp you there? Deadlines under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 and the role of estoppel
  • A victory for landowners and developers in defeating claims to register land as a town or village green
  • He ain't squatting, he's my brother 
  • Overage triggers: a cautionary tale...  
  • Dilapidations: Court declines to give declaration to tenant as to remedial works  
  • New lease accounting rules explained 

Summer 2018

  • A tale of two sides – an insurance warning
  • If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...
  • Tenant laughing all the way to the bank
  • The right way to registration – a discussion of rights of way and priorities 
  • To Airbnb or not to Airbnb? 
  • Unlawful use is not an automatic barrier to registering an asset of community value
  • Your word may no longer be your bond 

Spring 2018

  • Mind the (registration) gap please!
  • Construction: Bond stands up under challenge
  • Leases – a guide to mortgagee protection clauses
  • Landlords... Are you acting reasonably? An update
  • Re-regulation of ASTs under the Deregulation Act

Winter 2017

  • Love thy neighbour?
  • London lease renewals to end in First Tiers
  • Mind the (overage) gap
  • Let there be light: an interesting case on the acquisition and release of tenants’ rights of light
  • Raising the Stakes in Service Charge: Goodbye Code of Practice, Hello Professional Statement
  • Overage and 'hypothetical bargain' damages

Autumn 2017

  • A (re)development of Ground (f)?
  • Introduction to the new Business and Property Courts
  • VAT zero-rating denied for conversion of partly non-residential property into dwellings
  • Wales “switches off” Stamp Duty Land Tax – be switched on to the switch off
  • Leasehold properties: abuse, reform and responsibility
  • Beware the intention behind restrictive covenants
  • A missed chance to enhance?
  • A fall from grace: Lend Lease glazing litigation – implications for construction contracts

Summer 2017

  • Move over for a damage case
  • Minimum energy efficiency standards – the final countdown
  • Polite notice – new guidance on how notices should be served by post
  • Talking sense? Key changes to the Electronic Communications Code
  • The side letter: a fashionable accessory for a tenant!
  • Extent of Easements – a decision on a right of way and ancillary use

Spring 2017

  • Take Notice: What constitutes reasonable notice to vacate?
  • When repair is better than replace
  • Express yourself!
  • Plan ahead: A review of Planning Permission and Copyright infringement
  • Term date drama
  • Ratings relief - Landmark ruling in Business Rates case
  • Partnerships: Imperfect leasing partners

Winter 2016

  • Fail to complete at your peril
  • 10 points...
  • To Airbnb or not to Airbnb – that is the question
  • Landlord….are you acting reasonably?
  • All the fun of the fair

Autumn 2016

  • Beware of the dark side: A warning about rights to light and poor behaviour
  • Partition at your peril
  • Breaking up is hard to do
  • Beyond repair
  • A sigh of relief after a long delay
  • Government publishes proposals for revised Electronic Communications Code - Landlords beware!

Summer 2016

  • Assigning the blame? Another landlord & tenant decision on lease assignments
  • Getting into a fix…
  • Are keys the key to a surrender?
  • Lease renewal decision leaves the landlord with a pounding headache!
  • RICS Service Charge Residential Management Code – What are the implications for those who manage residential leasehold properties?
  • Signed, Sealed……Delivered?
  • To build or not to build

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