Property & Real Estate Barristers
Articles
Oral agreements: a walk in the park!
14th October 2016
11 Oct 2016: Section 2(1) Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989, constructive trusts and the thorny problems of...
Non-delegable duties – the hard road for building owners in party wall cases
12th October 2016
Building owners carrying out notifiable party wall works, usually basement extensions, which cause damage to adjoining...
Landlord & Tenant Digest Volume 20 (6)
12th October 2016
Commercial Update Vanquish Properties (UK) Ltd Partnership v Brook Street (UK) Ltd [2016] EWHC 1508 (Ch); An overriding...
Fairhold Freeholds No. 2 Limited v Moody [2016] UKUT 311 (LC)
10th October 2016
Summary The Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) has held that an indemnity given in a lease can be viewed as a promise by the...
Landlord & Tenant – Unlawful sub-letting
10th October 2016
Summary The Upper Tribunal upheld the FTT's determination that the lessee had breached a covenant in her lease not to use...
23 Dollis Avenue (1998) Limited v Vejdani [2016] UKUT 365
10th October 2016
Summary A failure to comply with the Service Charge (Consultation Requirements) (England) Regulations 2003 ("the...
Short-term Lettings and the Sharing Economy
6th October 2016
The beginning of 2016 has seen much focus on the buy to let market with the changes to the tax implications for those...
Solving the problem of retrospective awards
23rd September 2016
Click here to view a draft agreement between building owner and adjoining over to give jurisdiction to party wall surveyors...
When Airbnb rentals turn into nuisance neighbours
18th September 2016
Short-term sublets can turn into a nightmare, but a tribunal ruling offers some hope to long-suffering residents. Katie...
Winchester Park v Sehayak [2016] EWHC 1216 (QB)
14th September 2016
Summary A lessee's request for the dismissal of his claim for a mandatory interim injunction was not equivalent to a request...