Retail tenants should check the small print
As a fresh wave of lockdown measures cut across the UK, retail tenants may be experiencing new concerns about how to pay the rent, but...
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RICS Service Charge Code: changes ahead
Services charges can all too often become a source of contention between landlords and tenants. To assist with the process of administering the service charge...
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Senior Solicitor, Commercial PropertyNew Lease Code
We await the conclusions of the consultation process launched by The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) on replacing the current Code for Leasing Business...
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Senior Solicitor, Commercial PropertyMEES: Final Countdown – Commercial Properties
A reminder that from 1 April 2018, commercial property landlords granting new leases of energy inefficient properties could be liable for hefty fines of up...
Anne Bridger
Senior Solicitor, Commercial PropertyGoing Underground – Basement Excavations and Permitted Development Rights
Many planning authorities, particularly London boroughs, are having to deal with an increasing number of ‘digdowns’, as soaring house prices lead homeowners and developers to...
Anne Bridger
Senior Solicitor, Commercial PropertyAssignment of Leases to Guarantors
The Court of Appeal will not be considering whether assignments of leases to guarantors really are void now that the parties in the case of...
Anne Bridger
Senior Solicitor, Commercial PropertyAirbnb: short term lets could result in a breach of...
Leaseholders who have taken advantage of Airbnb type short term lettings, may now be scrutinising their leases, following the decision of the Upper Tribunal (Lands...
Anne Bridger
Senior Solicitor, Commercial PropertyBreak clauses – partitions and vacant possession
A break clause in a lease may only be exercised if any conditions attached to it have been satisfied. The clause will be strictly construed...
Anne Bridger
Senior Solicitor, Commercial PropertyChanges to permitted development rights
There were several changes to permitted development rights that came into force on 6 April 2016: • The existing temporary right to change a building...
Anne Bridger
Senior Solicitor, Commercial PropertySupreme Court: Marks and Spencer £1.1m rent claim decision
Marks and Spencer Plc v BNP Paribas Securities Services Trust Company (Jersey) Limited The eagerly awaited Supreme Court judgment in the dispute between M&S and...
