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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.
Topics We Cover
Latest Property News
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has reviewed the outcomes of its RICS in Europe Student Competition on Shaping Sustainable...
HM Land Registry (HMLR) has updated Practice Guide 26—Leases: determination. Section 4 has been amended to clarify that a deed of surrender must be...
The British Property Federation (BPF) has published its response to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ)’s 23 October 2025...
The Scottish Government has launched a call for evidence to inform its review of fire‑safety‑related building standards, including a fundamental...
Planning analysis: The latest consultation on the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) signals a decisive move towards centralisation in planning...
Latest Property Practice Notes
Environmental impact assessment and appropriate assessment/habitats regulations assessmentIntroductionWhere an environmental impact assessment (EIA)...
Property key future developments trackerOnce a development occurs, it is then moved to the relevant archive:•Property key future developments...
Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) for commercial property in ScotlandSTOP PRESS: The Energy Performance of Buildings (Scotland) Regulations 2025,...
Lease covenants—liability after assignment of a lease or its reversionThis Practice note looks at where liability lies following an assignment of the...
Commercial service charges—what is the landlord's liability to provide the service?A landlord of commercial premises may have an express or an implied...
Latest Property Precedents
Lease of unit on an industrial estateHM Land Registry Prescribed ClausesLR1. Date of the lease[date]LR2. Title number(s)LR2.1 Landlord's title...
Lease of part (retail unit in a shopping centre)HM Land Registry Prescribed Clausescol style="width: 25%;">LR1. Date of the lease[date]LR2. Title...
Lease of part—restaurantHM Land Registry Prescribed ClausesLR1. Date of the lease[date]LR2. Title number(s)LR2.1 Landlord's title number(s)[title...
Lease of high street shop unitFORTHCOMING CHANGE: The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 27 October 2025. For guidance regarding the...
Lease of part (office)HM Land Registry Prescribed Clausescol style="width: 25%;">LR1. Date of the lease[date]LR2. Title number(s)LR2.1 Landlord's...
Latest Property Q&As
Featured Property content
Severance of a joint tenancy
Severance of a joint tenancySeverance is the process by which a joint tenancy is converted into a tenancy in common. It is a matter of evidence...
What is a certificate of title?
What is a certificate of title?A certificate of title (also known as a certificate on title) is a particular species of report on title.When...
Indemnity covenants in property transfers
Indemnity covenants in property transfersThis Practice Note looks at when an indemnity covenant should be given in a transfer of land. For general...
Resulting trusts
Resulting trustsResulting trusts represent one of the three types of trust which do not require to be declared or evidenced in writing. The others are...
Reversionary leases
Reversionary leasesReversionary leases (or future leases) are granted to take effect in possession at a future date. This Practice Note looks at:•when...
The Standard Conditions of Sale (5th edition: 2018 revision)—a guide to the main provisions
The Standard Conditions of Sale (5th edition: 2018 revision)—a guide to the main provisionsThe Standard Conditions of Sale (SCS), currently in their...
Carrying out bankruptcy searches at the Land Charges Department
Carrying out bankruptcy searches at the Land Charges DepartmentIntroductionThis Practice Note looks at the circumstances in which a bankruptcy search...
Easements—LPA 1925, s 62 and permissions
Easements—LPA 1925, s 62 and permissionsSection 62 of the Law of Property Act 1925 (LPA 1925) (section 62) is, in essence, a word-saving device....
Land registration—overriding interests, occupiers and interests which have lost overriding status
Occupiers and overriding interestsOverriding interests are interests which are binding on property even though they are not shown on the register....
Lease surrenders
Lease surrendersWhat is a lease surrender?A lease surrender is a mutual agreement between the landlord and the tenant to bring the lease to an end...
A chargor (an individual) is granting a legal charge to a chargee (a company). Can an employee of the chargee witness the signature of the chargor?
Profits à prendre
Profits à prendreIntroduction — what is a profit à prendre?A profit à prendre is the right to take natural resources from another person’s land....
Implied easements—common law
Implied easements—common lawThere are three different ways by which an easement can be implied at common law:•necessity•intended use•the rule in...
Overreaching—sales by trustees of land
Overreaching—sales by trustees of landBroadly, the doctrine of overreaching enables purchasers (which includes tenants and mortgagees) in good faith...
Pre-completion searches
Pre-completion searchesThis Practice Note sets out the searches that should be carried out prior to completion (pre-completion searches), including...
Cautions against first registration
Cautions against first registrationA caution against first registration (referred to as a ‘caution’ throughout this Practice Note) is a means of...
Land charges under the Land Charges Act 1972—registration and purpose
Land charges—registration and purposeLand charges are registered to protect the interests, in unregistered land, of a person who does not hold the...
Sub-sales and assignments
Sub-sales and assignmentsA sub-sale is where A contracts to sell a property to B but, before completing the purchase from A, B then contracts to sell...
Associated legal terms
Assured shorthold tenancy (AST)
A type of assured tenancy under Housing Act 1988 of a residential property, generally granted for a short-term, providing little long-term security, as a landlord can recover possession at the end of the contractual term, by serving notice and possession proceedings but without needing to establish any grounds for possession.
Bona vacantia
Ownerless land or goods.
Manager burden
A type of real burden created by TC(S)A 2003, s 63 which allows a person (usually a developer) to act as a manager of related properties, appoint a person to be a manager and dismiss any manager. The manager burden may only be exercised for so long as the holder of the manager burden owns one of the related properties and will be extinguished in most cases five years after the date the manager burden is registered
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