Nature of mortgages and chargesMortgages and charges are distinct forms of security. A mortgage can be legal or equitable and involves the transfer of...
Official search with priority—registered land or seller’s title pending first registrationHow and when to search?An official search with priority will...
Consecrated land—Church of EnglandFor the purposes of this section of this Practice Note, consecrated land means any land or building which has been...
What is a headline rent?In a falling market, landlords frequently offer tenants financial inducements to take a lease in order to maintain the level...
The ‘ad medium filum’ rule is a rebuttable presumption that an owner of land which abuts either:•a public or private highway, or•a non-tidal river or...
This Deed is made on [insert date]PARTIES1[insert name of the owner of the Servient Land] [ of [insert address] OR incorporated in England and Wales...
An adaptable Word version of this Precedent can be saved, downloaded or printed from this link:Completion statement—saleThis Precedent is a template...
Effect of appointmentA fixed charge receiver is appointed under a legal charge or mortgage and only has power to deal with and dispose of the charged...
The implied or deemed surrender and re-grant of a lease arises where an agreed variation of the terms of the original lease is so fundamental that the...
At common law, where a landlord grants a tenancy which is structured as: an initial fixed term; with a periodic tenancy to follow (eg for two years,...
An arms length management organisation (ALMO) is a not-for-profit company that provides housing services on behalf of a local housing authority (LHA)....
When selling a freehold property, sellers may wish to create positive covenants for future owners to perform. Problems may arise with the enforcement...
When reviewing a lease within a moderately small residential flat scheme which consists of a principal building containing the flats and some communal...
One of the most common management schemes adopted by developers of residential flats is for the developer to retain the reversionary interest but to...
Repair and improvementsA tenant will not generally be expected to pay for the landlord to upgrade or improve its property as opposed to repairing it....
Case studyA tenant has been in occupation of a residential property for 24 years without a written tenancy agreement being in place. The rent has been...
In the General Data Protection Regulation (the GDPR), Regulation (EU) 2016/679, personal data is widely defined and means any information relating to...
The question posed is whether the head landlord local authority will take on a secure tenancy under the Housing Act 1985 (HA 1985). If it does, then...