This week's edition of Property weekly highlights includes: a White Paper on a reformed commonhold model in England and Wales, applications for protection in relation to the Register of Overseas Entities and the government’s response to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 report and to a consultation on implementing plan-making reforms under the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023.

This week's edition of Property weekly highlights includes: more on the Renters’ Rights Act 2025, the latest HM Land Registry updates, comment on the Angela Rayner stamp duty land tax issue and cases on contractual interpretation in the context of deferred payment and residential service charges.

This week's edition of Property weekly highlights includes: news from HM Land Registry on Qualified Electronic Signatures and cases on remediation contribution orders under the Building Safety Act 2022, section 106 obligations, residential tenancy deposits, HMOs and letting agents, disputes over beneficial ownership and transactions at an undervalue.

This week's edition of Property weekly highlights includes: Spring Budget 2024, amendments to the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill, implementation of phase three of the Charities Act 2022 provisions, guidance for developers on calculating nutrient neutrality and cases on the right to manage and adverse possession.

This week's edition of Property weekly highlights includes: the Building Safety (Wales) Bill and English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill both receiving Royal Assent, publication of new and updated guidance from MHCLG following provisions in the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 coming into force on 1 May 2026, proposed updates to the Law Society’s Conveyancing Protocol and updated MEES guidance. It also includes Court of Appeal decisions where a section 21 notice was held to be invalid due to non-compliance with statutory gas safety notice requirements and where a lease disclaimer constituted a contractual failure triggering a guarantor’s indemnity obligations and Upper Tribunal cases concerning Code rights under the Electronic Communications Code and consideration of service charge provisions in a lease of retirement flats.

This week's edition of Property weekly highlights includes: updated guidance on the Building Safety Act 2022, a report on MHCLG’s progress in remediating unsafe cladding, news on the Law Society consultation on form TA6, a potential new representative body for the real estate sector and cases on adverse possession and abuse of process, declarations of trust, rent repayment orders and stamp duty land tax.

This week's edition of Property weekly highlights includes: updates to HM Land Registry (HMLR) Practice Guide 1, cases on a right of way acquired by prescription over a private road, dismissal of the right to recover VAT on property purchase, proof of debt related to a claim for breach of covenants in a lease against an insolvent tenant, Scottish cases on a resumption notice being contrary to the good faith of an agricultural lease and lease break clause held to be not inter naturalia of a commercial lease, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) and Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Angela Rayner letters to stakeholders about the government's plan to build homes, MHCLG update to its guidance on non-determination applications for higher-risk buildings procedures, Building Safety Act 2022 (Amendment Notices Transitional Provision) Regulations 2024, SI 2024/850 and updated Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) answers to a number of frequently asked questions regarding the Building Safety Act 2022.

This week's edition of Property weekly highlights includes: publication of amended versions of the MCL suite of documents, statutory guidance on conservation covenant agreements and cases on the court’s powers under TOLATA 1996, the type of beneficial ownership of a property acquired for business purposes, the fact that the Upper Tribunal cannot modify positive covenants and the exercise of the UT’s discretion not to modify a restrictive covenant due to the developer’s conduct.

This week's edition of Property weekly highlights includes: consultations on Part 5 of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024, the Law Society response to the government’s proposals as to home buying and selling reform, analysis of the provisions in Finance Bill 2026 mandating that tax advisers register with HMRC and cases on residential service charges, disputed land, modification of restrictive covenants, Quistclose trusts in the context of property development, rent repayment orders, HMOs, rent adjustment, unlawful eviction and SDLT anti-avoidance.

This week's edition of Property weekly highlights includes: a Supreme Court decision on the qualifying period for adverse possession, cases on adverse possession and death, consideration for interim access under the Telecoms Code, overriding interests, discharge of obsolete restrictive covenants and service charges for substandard work, plus an update on Law Commission recommendations.

This week's edition of Property weekly highlights includes: investment in repairs and new homes by social housing landlords and, in Scotland, regulations on private residential tenancies, the Scottish Government’s analysis of responses to its consultation on draft energy efficiency regulations and publication of its progress report on heat in buildings.

This week's edition of Property weekly highlights includes: more tenant guidance on the Renters’ Rights Act 2925 and cases on the alteration of deeds, collective investment schemes, service of section 25 notices, refusal of consent to demolish, identification of defendants in possession proceedings and anticipatory building liability orders.