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Property Disputes weekly highlights—27 November 2025

This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: property-related announcements from this year’s Budget, Upper Tribunal decisions concerning classification of houses in multiple occupation and the interpretation of a lease clause relating to service charge demands, and a High Court decision concerning the annual review of two final injunctions made against protestors. It also includes the Scottish Government’s introduction of a Bill to correct a non-domestic rates legislative error.

Minutes of the CPR Committee meeting—3 October 2025

Dispute Resolution analysis: The minutes of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee (CPRC) meeting of 3 October 2025 (conducted in a hybrid format at The Rolls Building (Royal Courts of Justice) and via video conference) cover a number of issues including reforms to closed material procedure (CMP) under CPR Part 82, proposed consultation on traffic enforcement, amendments to PD 52D arising from the Anaesthesia Associates and Physician Associates Order 2024 (AAPAO 2024), clarification of the route for Human Rights Act damages claims, the fixed recoverable costs (FRC) interim stocktake, developments in costs budgeting pilots, revisions to anonymity orders, and matters before the Lacuna Sub-Committee concerning interpreters’ fees and non-party disclosure.

RICS submits Budget 2025 recommendations and warns on landlord NI proposals

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has submitted recommendations to HM Treasury ahead of Budget 2025, calling for business rates reform, enhanced local authority powers, accelerated green investment targets and planning system improvements. RICS has also raised concerns about reported proposals for an 8% National Insurance charge on landlord rental profits, citing commissioned research suggesting 62% of landlords would raise rents in response and 40% would reduce property improvements.

Budget 2025—key Property announcements

In the Budget 2025, on 26 November 2025, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP, set out a number of measures impacting the property industry, though not all of those that some commentators predicted. Chrisa Tsompani, Partner at Davitt Jones Bould, provides further commentary below on the Chancellor’s plan.

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