This week's edition of Property weekly highlights includes: the coming into force of certain provisions in the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024) and cases on the remediation of defective cladding and service charges, legal fees and service charges and unlawful forfeiture in the context of a failed winding-up petition.

This week's edition of Property weekly highlights includes: government proposals for home buying and selling reforms, commencement of measures relating to hazards in privately rented homes, a long-awaited government response on MEES for commercial premises, the launch by HMLR of new build registrations workshop, guidance on higher-risk buildings in Wales, the opening of the First Homes fund in Scotland and cases on lease frustration and building safety, forfeiture, HMO licensing, lease assignment, service charges, breach of a sale agreement and mitigation of loss, a transfer made following a Tomlin order and SDLT multiple dwelling relief.

This week's edition of Property weekly highlights includes: BPF comment on the proposed ban on upward-only rent reviews in the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, cases on proprietary estoppel, the Electronic Communications Code and business rates avoidance schemes and new Companies House rules on the register of overseas entities and the latest updates to HMLR guidance.

This week's edition of Property weekly highlights includes: government explanatory notes and BPF guidance on the Renters’ Rights Act 2025, more on the Building Safety Act 2022 and cases on the meaning of rent under the Housing Act 1988, service charge recovery in the right to buy context, costs of repair due to progressive failure of window seals interference with a right of way, a dispute in relation to a hotel development scheme, disapplication of an option to tax and SDLT on mixed use transactions.

This week's edition of Property weekly highlights includes: publication of the second edition of the RICS service charge standard, pausing of the Law Society’s work on the material information form and publication by the Law Society of supplementary FAQs on its climate change and property practice note and cases on residential service charge, disclaimer and AGAs, HMOs, boundary determination, vesting orders on insolvency and stamp duty land tax.

This week's edition of Property weekly highlights includes: Renters’ Rights Act guidance and regulations, responses to the consultation on restricting ground rents in existing leases, a reminder that use of the new Law Society TA6 property information form is mandatory from 30 March 2026, HM Land Registry updates, responses to the consultation on the Future Homes and Buildings Standards and cases on HMO licensing exemptions, recovery of property, enfranchisement and fire-damaged dwellings, airspace infringement and the definition of residential property for stamp duty land tax purposes.

This week's edition of Property weekly highlights includes: a Law Society consultation on a climate risk and conveyancing practice note, the BPF’s response to the proposed revisions to the NPPF and plans to boost minimum energy efficiency and to consult on a new Decent Homes Standard for rented homes.

This week's edition of Property weekly highlights includes: cases on the appointment of a manager under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987, beneficial ownership, the latest HMLR updates, plans for the delivery of affordable housing and the VAT treatment of land for social housing.

This week's edition of Property weekly highlights includes: a Supreme Court decision on adverse possession, the government’s response to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 report, cases on the Electronic Communications Code and statutory residential lease variation and the launch of the City of London Law Society’s fifth edition of its Short Form Report on Title.

This week's edition of Property weekly highlights includes: comment on the various parties’ political manifestos and policies as we approach the general election, cases on the interplay between the Telecommunications Code and the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, adverse possession of loft space and proprietary estoppel and section 2(1) of the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989 and a Law Society special general meeting (the latest development in the running saga of the fifth edition of the TA6 Information Form).

This week's edition of Property weekly highlights includes: the Spring Statement 2025, a case clarifying the statutory test for a ‘self-contained part of building’ in right to manage claims, a High Court decision concerning the grant of a freezing injunction prohibiting disposal or diminution of certain assets, the government’s response to the consultation on the Building Safety Levy, an increase in the Flood Re levy and the latest HM Land Registry guidance updates.

This week's edition of Property weekly highlights includes: Budget 2025 and cases on the sale of a mortgaged property by a receiver, residential service charge, houses in multiple occupation and stamp duty land tax on mixed use properties.