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 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...
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 lease is being granted, but the schedule of condition to which the premises is to be subjected will not be available until after completion. How can the schedule of...
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 residential flat lease stipulates that the tenant is not to alter the flat but may make internal non-structural alterations with landlord’s consent (not to be...
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 has taken a new contracted out lease of a premises they formerly occupied under a lease and then a tenancy at will. The tenant has now served a break notice to...
A tenant has taken an assignment of a commercial property in which there are problems with the electrical cabling. To what extent is the landlord/tenant or assignor...
A tenant is in occupation under an implied tenancy at will with no previous written lease. Are there any implied terms in a commercial periodic tenancy in respect of the...
A tenant of a 99-year lease was granted consent to carry out alterations 40 years ago. The plans attached to the licence have been lost and it is possible that additional...
Agents were contracted to manage a three bedroom residential property for 10 years. In breach of contract they failed to carry out quarterly inspections for the past four...
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—a tenant’s practical lease negotiation guide...
The following Property practice note provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Alterations—specific consent overrides tenant covenants in lease...
The following Property Q&A provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Are there any cases relating to the Defective Premises Act 1972 where a leak into a...
As a landowner, what responsibility does a landlord have for trees? If a lease is silent about liability for inspection and maintenance of trees within the demise, will...
The following Property precedent provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Assignment of the benefit of a dilapidations claim
The following Property Q&A provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Can a commercial landlord enter and remove its fixtures where the tenant has not...
Can a dilapidations claim be made by a landlord in accordance with the lease where the tenant claims that the lease was not formally assigned to them and therefore they...
Can a landlord claim compensation for works undertaken by a tenant without consent? In this situation, do the Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 provisions apply and can the...
The following Property Q&A provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Can a landlord claim for damages in respect of wear and tear?
Can a landlord include in a claim against a former assured shorthold tenant, for damage to the property, a claim for time spend cleaning and decorating? If so how dothey...
Can a landlord insist on a contribution of 50% of costs of repair work to a roof when the roof collapsed? This should have been covered by insurance but they would not...
The following Property Q&A provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Can a landlord serve a repair notice during the last year of a repairing lease or...
Can a tenant’s obligation to repair a track pursuant to a covenant contained in a lease be diminished or affected by the tenant’s infrequent use of the track, its partial...
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...
Case study: A tenant, has entered into an agreement to surrender its lease on a future date to allow the landlord to redevelop. The deed of surrender (the agreed form of...
