‘A’ owns the freehold and a 999-year leasehold interest in a mixed-use block where more than 50% of which consists of residential apartments let on long leases (the...
A and B are joint owners of the freehold of a building. There are two flats; A is the tenant of one and B the tenant of the other. A serves a notice under section 42 of...
A building consists of two flats where the freeholder has already granted a long lease of one of the flats and it is intended that on the same date: the freeholder will...
A buyer wishes to purchase a property with the assistance of mortgage funding. It has been proposed that a declaration of trust is entered into which will provide that...
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 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 company is a tenant under a common law tenancy. Is it possible for that tenant to sublet by way of an assured shorthold tenancy or grant a service tenancy or occupancy?...
A company secretary proposes a vote to tenants/shareholders in a retirement block to vary their leases to remove or reduce the current age restriction. What is the...
A council lent a sum of money to a borrower in 1978 and secured it by way of a mortgage by demise. The sum has been repaid and there is a vacating receipt with the deeds....
A deposit was put in a tenancy deposit scheme (TDS) by a landlord’s agent. The landlord then changed agents without informing the TDS. At the end of the tenancy, the...
A divorcing couple own a property in joint names. As part of the divorce settlement, it is proposed to transfer the property into the wife's sole name, subject to a...
A freeholder (F) grants a long lease (Lease) of premises to tenant (T1) and then a reversionary lease to T2. T1 and T2 agree to a variation of the Lease. The reversionary...
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 has left a property in their Will to which there are seven beneficiaries. A grant of probate has been issued and the beneficiaries would like to transfer the property...
A headtenant company is dissolved and the head lease is bona vacantia. Does the undertenant lose its right to claim enfranchisement under the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 if...
A house has been converted into two flats. The ground floor owns the freehold of the first floor. Reciprocally, the first floor owns the freehold of the ground floor in a...
A house has been repossessed and the bank has possession. The mortgagor has now borrowed funds from a family member. Can the mortgagor now redeem the mortgage and...
A house is converted into three flats demised to three separate leaseholders. One of the three leaseholders owns the whole freehold, and they wish to grant themselves an...
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 husband has a charge over the wife’s property following matrimonial proceedings. He has missed several maintenance payments to the wife. What can she do? Is it possible...
A landlord and tenant wish to vary a lease of a flat. Does the original management company need to enter into the deed of variation with the landlord and tenant if it no...
A landlord did not serve the prescribed information on the tenant or protect the deposit when he granted an assured shorthold tenancy. The fixed term has now expired. The...
A landlord enters into an assured shorthold tenancy for a term of one year and receives a deposit from the tenant but fails to place that deposit in an appropriate...
A landlord failed to place a deposit for an assured shorthold tenancy (AST) into a tenancy deposit scheme (TDS) (and is consequently liable for a penalty). Did the...
A landlord granted a 12-month fixed term assured shorthold tenancy and served a section 21(4)(a) notice during the fixed term. Was that notice valid or should a section...
A landlord granted an assured shorthold tenancy before 1 October 2015, but has served the new form of section 21 notice on the tenant. Does service of the new form of...
