Property weekly highlights—5 June 2025

Table of contents

• Leasing property
• Consultation on security of tenure for business tenancies—interim statement from Law Commission
• Property insolvency
• Etridge applies where non-commercial hybrid transaction includes more than trivial surety element
• Section 234 cannot be used to repossess property where receivers already appointed
• Statutory compliance
• Recoverability under DPA 1972
• Property management
• Insurance rent—landlord’s commission and excesses
• Service charge liability—construction of lease

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Article summary

This week's edition of Property weekly highlights includes: an interim statement from the Law Commission on security of tenure for business tenancies, a Supreme Court decision on the Etridge protocol in hybrid transactions, more coverage of cases on the use of section 234 of the Insolvency Act 1986 and the recovery of insurance rent and cases on recoverability under DPA 1972, service charge liability, specific enforcement and rates mitigation.