Commercial property newsletter

Commercial property update - February 2012
This month we look at changes to the law and practice in relation to Energy Performance Certificates and touch on the Localism Act 2011... ...

Commercial property update - November 2011
This month I look at the new RICS Service Charges Code. Second Edition of the RICS Code of Practice on Service Charges in Commercial Property. This came into effect on 1 October 2011 and sets out best practice in the administration of service charges... ...

Commercial property update - September 2011
This month, we look at a case dealing with whether the conditions attached to a conditional contract can be waived by the purchaser, the rules relating to registration of leases of terms of 7 years or less, and whether an Energy Performance Certificate is required on the renewal of a lease...

Commercial property update - August 2011
This month we look at changes to the law and practice in relation to sewers and some key cases in respect of service charges....

Commercial property update - July 2011
This month we look at whether vacant possession has been given, whether under a residential tenancy plaster on a ceiling forms part of the structure of the property and the development of land which has been registered as a village green...

Commercial property update - June 2011
This month we look at two recent cases that affect the relationship of Landlord & Tenant relating to problems with enforcing the costs of repairs and whether a guarantor or so guarantees the liability of the tenant under an authorised guarantee agreement...

Commercial property update - May 2011
This month we look at two recent cases that affect the relationship of Landlord & Tenant relating to problems with enforcing the costs of repairs and whether a guarantor or so guarantees the liability of the tenant under an authorised guarantee agreement...

Commercial property update - April 2011
Acces to client files - In the case of Mortgage Express –v- Sawali (2011) Mortgage Express applied to the Court for an order requiring Mehrban Sawali to deliver up his files on which he had acted as solicitor for both the borrower and the lender, and in respect of which Sawali kept a joint file...