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Property is one of the most complex areas of law. Some of it is rooted in ancient laws – but case law is constantly changing. The stakes are high, but research time is in short supply. Lexis+ Property brings all of the different sources you need together so you can find the answers you need, fast.

Transferring property

This topic includes a suite of Practice Notes and Precedents covering all aspects of the process of buying and selling land, including conditional contracts and contracts entered into by insolvency practitioners.

Leasing property

Commercial property is a staple for many property lawyers. Coronavirus has introduced changes for landlords and tenants – we’ve taken them and published a suite of precedent Pandemic lease clauses.

Property development

We have a broad range of Practice Notes and Precedents for this specialised and complex area. Structured logically – site acquisition, vacant possession, structuring a development project, overage, and rights of light.

Property disputes

Clear, concise practice notes have direct links to relevant cases, legislation, guidance and commentary. Our daily news feeds and weekly highlights keep you informed of new cases, and legislation.

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Do commercial service charge demands have to comply with the same provisions of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 & 1985 as residential service charge demands? Do they have to state the name and address of the landlord, the address for which the charges relate and the period to which the arrears relate? Must it be accompanied with a summary of tenant’s rights and obligations?
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Is there any authority that says that, where there is a lease of more than seven years that it must be registered before a break notice can be exercised in circumstances where the lease does not contain that as a pre-condition? Alternatively, if there is such a pre-condition but the landlord has failed to answer any requisitions raised by HM Land Registry and thus prevented registration, can it object to the service of the break notice?
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Where the contractual term of a Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 protected tenancy expires part way through a quarter (and rent is payable in advance on the usual quarter days), can the landlord demand the full quarter’s rent prior to the contractual expiry date without prejudicing its right to recover possession if the tenant fails to issue proceedings or vacate?
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As a landowner, what responsibility does a landlord have for trees? If a lease is silent about liability for inspection and maintenance of trees within the demise, will all liability for the trees automatically pass to the tenant or does the landlord retain any liability for the trees?
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Where a tenant is obliged to keep a whole building in good and substantial repair and condition, will this include replacement (of a roof)?
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Legal report

A report obtained from either the Registers of Scotland or from private searchers against the title to a property which reveals in the case of unregistered property: • ten years prescriptive progress of title • undischarged standard securities within the last 40 years • discharges of standard securities recorded within the last five years • other deeds which affect the property recorded within the last 40 years • extant advance notices/caveats • adverse entries in the Register of Inhibitions and in the case of registered property: • deeds registered which affect the property (eg standard securities and discharges) • deeds in the course of registration which may affect the property • extant advance notices/caveats • adverse entries in the Register of Inhibitions

Overreaching

The transfer of beneficial interests from land to the proceeds of sale.

Party fence wall

A wall that is not part of a building that stands on land belonging to different owners and is used or constructed to be used for separating adjoining land.
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