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Anyone who has ever thrown a dice onto Monopoly's well known multi-coloured board and entered into the inevitable tussle over the dark blues of Park Lane and Mayfair knows the competitive advantages...
The terms "lease" and "licence" are often used interchangeably and there is an oft-cited misconception (similar to the widespread belief that the UK recognises common-law marriage...
A recent ruling from the Court of Appeal in favour of a group of the country’s biggest landlords, which will allow them to collect rent from companies in administration, has been welcomed by...
Sometimes the letting process can seem frustratingly slow and clients may wonder "are all of these documents really necessary?"
Well, the short answer (in the landlord and tenant world...
The recent case of European Urban St Pancras Ltd v Glynn has been a timely reminder of the ways in which neighbours can acquire easements over each other's land through long usage.
Mrs Glynn...
A disabled man in central London has won a court case that questions the Government’s definition of a spare bedroom and its ability to charge its spare room subsidy or bedroom tax.
The decision...
Ed Miliband’s proposal, shared in his speech at the Labour Party conference yesterday, to allow local authorities to take back land from housebuilders would fail and would not deliver any new...
One of the most important issues facing administrators and landlords of commercial property, is the treatment of rent as an expense after a tenant company has gone into administration. The collapse...
One (and I should stress one) of the problems facing our high streets is punitive business rates. Retailers bemoan a rates regime that is not set for evaluation until 2017. They argue that rates can...
This time last year I was working 16 hour shifts in a gastro pub in Kentish Town and had almost given up on the prospect of a real job. For years I had been surrounded by my peers endlessly discussing...
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