A buyer’s local authority search result has been substantially delayed. Both parties are happy to have a contract which is conditional upon the result being received and...
A client purchased a small parcel of land in 1985 (this parcel remains unregistered). The only proof that the client has of this transaction is a letter from the vendor...
The following Property Q&A provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on A conveyance references tithes. Have tithes been abolished or are they still...
A foreign company is the registered proprietor of property in England. The company has been dissolved. Who owns the property following the dissolution of the company and...
A landlord grants a lease of part of its property (Plot A) with a right of way over its adjoining land (Plot B) and tenant covenants not to obstruct the right of way,...
A piece of registered land has been the subject of a number of transfers for value. When the land was unregistered, it was subject to chancel repair liability and a...
A 'pre-planning' restrictive covenant indemnity insurance policy protecting against a proposed residential development of a site, which is historically restricted in the...
A property lacks formal planning permission for its current use. The buyer’s solicitor requested a statutory declaration from the seller’s solicitor to confirm the...
A title document contains a statement that the owner shall ‘bear their share of the cost of a formal apportionment of the tithe rent charge affecting the land and the...
The following Property practice note provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Additional pre-contract searches
An easement granted by deed in 1920 is registered against the title to the dominant land but not the servient land. The servient land has recently been sold and the buyer...
An equitable charge to protect overage is registered on a freehold title. Subsequently, the proprietor grants a legal charge to a lender and this is also registered...
An individual had an interest in various properties as a tenant in common and his Will provided that his interest should be transferred to his wife on his death. Can his...
The following Property Q&A provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Are any of the overriding interests recognised at law capable of being overreached?...
Are there any statutory provisions which would permit an electricity distributor to repair an electricity cable underneath construction works? Alternatively, are there...
The following Property Q&A provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on As the owner of land that borders a river where the riverbed is registered in the...
The following Property practice note provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Buying from an insolvency practitioner—the sales process and insolvency...
The following Property practice note provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Buying property from a sole surviving co-owner
By reference to the Energy Performance of Buildings (England and Wales) Regulations 2012 and the latest Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy guidance,...
The following Property Q&A provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Can a mast operator validly covenant not to exercise their code rights under the...
The following Property Q&A provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Can the buyer of a flat rely on a seller's pre-contract email, which confirms the...
Can the owners of a property fronting an unadopted road (which they enjoy a right of way over) force an adjoining landowner to contribute to a proportion of the cost of...
Can the purchaser of a commercial property serve a schedule of dilapidations on a tenant following completion, where the tenant has been in occupation for a number of...
The following Property Q&A provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Can title possessory of a leasehold be upgraded to good leasehold title or title...
The following Property practice note provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Carrying out bankruptcy searches at HM Land Registry
Case study—what are the implications for in a situation where electricity cables run under a plot of land, but there is no evidence of a deed of grant or wayleave in...
