The following Property Disputes practice note provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on 1954 Act—surrender of business tenancies
A (original tenant) assigned lease to B (current tenant). A entered into an authorised guarantee agreement(AGA). B is now assigning the lease to C (proposed assignee)....
A buyer has recently bought a leasehold property. There are service charge arrears from a previous tenant (not the buyer's vendor but the vendor's predecessor). Can the...
A buyer wishes to purchase a residential property with sitting tenants who have a protected tenancy and a registered rent. If the sitting tenants sign a new assured...
A client (X) takes an assignment of a reversionary interest which was subject to a commercial lease. The previous landlord (Y) took a rent deposit when the lease was...
A commercial lease contains a market standard rent review clause. The parties agree the reviewed rent but the guarantor to the lease does not sign the rent review...
A commercial lease ends before its contractual expiry date and the lease provisions are unclear as to how the service charge should be apportioned. Does the RICS...
A commercial lease has come to an end. Before the tenants left the property (late Jan 2018) the landlord issued a rent review increase notice (Nov 2017) to which the...
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 freeholder grants a lease to A, who sublets to B. Prior to the expiry of the headlease, the freeholder granted a new lease directly to B. That lease has now expired and...
A guarantee agreement to a six-month Assured Shorthold Tenancy (AST) states that the guarantee also applies any renewals or extension of the fixed term. Following expiry...
A house is split into two flats with a company owning the freehold and the two leaseholders owning the company. What pitfalls might there be if the two leaseholds were in...
A landlord accepts a surrender of a lease from its tenant. However, the parties have agreed that the tenant will continue to pay rent until the property is let. What is...
A Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 protected lease requires an outgoing tenant to enter into an authorised guarantee agreement (AGA) to cover the period during which the...
A landlord and tenant enter into a deed of surrender of a registered lease. The reversion is unregistered. If the deed of surrender is not registered at HM Land Registry,...
A landlord grants lease of a property comprising commercial premises on the ground floor with a flat above. The tenant has sublet the flat on an AST (which is permitted...
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...
A landlord has been asked to grant consent to an assignment. The lease expires on 31 May 2017, and the current tenant had asked for a reversionary lease to be granted to...
A landlord has delayed in serving a terminal schedule of dilapidations until some two years after the expiry of the lease. It appears that trespassers occupied the...
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 let a first floor flat to a tenant under an assured shorthold tenancy (AST) in 2014 (A). The ground floor is also owned by the landlord and is let to the...
A landlord holds a property under a superior lease and is granting an underlease of the property. The freeholder is providing its consent by way of a licence to sublet....
A landlord of a residential property proposes to charge the service charge on demand, as and when required, rather than the usual process of providing an annual estimate,...
A landlord re-entered premises purporting to forfeit a commercial lease for rent arrears despite having waived the right to forfeit by writing to the tenant seeking...
A landlord serves a break notice on the tenant and but the notice is addressed to the previous tenant. The other details of the notice are correct. Is the notice valid?...
