A commercial lease prohibits assigning and sharing possession. It also prohibits permitting another person or company to 'use' the Property. What might constitute a third...
A company (X) takes an assignment of a commercial lease from the outgoing tenant (Y). The contract provides that Y will give vacant possession. Y has not provided a key...
A company is a tenant under an informal lease agreement. The landlord is a shareholder of the tenant company. As agreed between the parties, the tenant does not pay rent....
A landlord has agreed to pay a sum of money to the tenant under the terms of the lease. The original landlord has now assigned its interest. Is the new landlord obliged...
The following Property Q&A provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on A landlord has granted subleases for a term longer than the headlease. What is the...
A landlord has issued a draft licence to alter in respect of works to replace aircon units. It transpires that the works have already been completed. Should a...
A landlord has unreasonably withheld consent to an alienation request on the basis of rent arrears which are not owed. The landlord has also unlawfully re-entered the...
A lease plan for a residential long lease does not reflect the actual layout of the property, following works being carried out to the demise. Although the works were...
A lease provides for the tenant not to transfer the whole property without the prior written consent of the landlord (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed). Can the...
A lease was granted to individual members of a company. In practice, the company pays the rent but no formal assignment has been completed. The tenant now wishes to...
A long commercial lease at a substantial rent grants the tenant an unrestricted right of access over a road. The landlord does not own, nor has any express rights over...
A potential tenant is unwilling to take a lease of a commercial tenant unless and until the adjoining neighbouring property has fixed the dilapidated fence which runs...
A property is subject to a restriction that it is not to be used other than as a private dwellinghouse by a single family (subject to the number of persons occupying the...
A residential lease includes a tenant covenant that the property is let on the condition that it is occupied only by a single-family unit at all times. What constitutes...
A tenant (A) proposes to take an assignment of a lease from the existing tenant (T). The lease entitles the landlord (L) to require a director’s guarantee from the...
A tenant carries out works without landlord’s consent and then purports to assign the lease (also without consent). The landlord had said that a retrospective licence to...
A tenant company ('Company A') permits another company ('Company B') to occupy premises. Landlord’s consent has not been obtained, because Company B refuses to procure...
A tenant has carried out alterations without the landlord’s consent and now seeks to obtain retrospective consent. The landlord will grant a retrospective licence on...
A tenant has carried out improvement work without giving notice to the landlord (or as required under the lease obtaining landlord’s consent). Can it rely on the Landlord...
A tenant has carried out unauthorised alterations in breach of the terms of a lease and without the knowledge of the landlord. Is there a time limit for the landlord to...
A tenant owns a leasehold flat which was previously used as an air bnb unit. The landlord has complained about this breach of covenant given the Nemcova v Fairfields...
A tenant under a lease dated 1971 is trading on Sundays. However, the lease prohibits Sunday trading. The shop is under 280 square metres, so the Sunday trading...
The following Property Disputes practice note provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Accepting rental payments from third parties—landlord’s...
The following Property practice note provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Acting for a tenant—assignment of existing lease—key issues...
The following Property practice note provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Alterations outside the demise
The following Property practice note provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Alterations—specific consent overrides tenant covenants in lease...
