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11th January 2013
Landlord and Tenant – No implied insurance recovery in Service charge clause
In a recent case where, by mistake, a lease contained no express clause for the landlord to recover the insurance premium from the tenant, it was held that there was no basis for implied…
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6th December 2012
Landlord and Tenant – Service Charge Clauses – no special Rules of Interpretation
In a recent decision, the High Court raised doubts about the existence of hitherto generally accepted rules of interpretation of service charge clauses, namely, that landlords should not make a…
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22nd November 2012
Review your Business Rates Bill
Business rates are a large part of the cost of occupying any property, and there are many examples of businesses’ that have run into financial difficulty because of these high charges. The local…
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21st November 2012
Could we be seeing a Local Authority Dash for the Cash?
The Local Government Finance Act 2012 creates a new model for funding local authorities from April 2013, linking their financial revenue to the decisions they take to support local firms and local…
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7th November 2012
Business Rates: Are Northern Businesses set to Subsidise their Southern Brothers?
The Government’s proposals to cancel the 2015 rates revaluation will see many small struggling businesses forced to pay taxes against 2008 valuations, made near the peak of the property…
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5th November 2012
Government to review empty property rates legislation
The Estates Gazette has revealed that the government could review empty property rates legislation after a freedom of information request showed that the government was spending more than £50…
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1st November 2012
Empty Rates Blow for Scottish Business
Fears that Scottish businesses and landlords would have to suffer the consequences of extra charges were realised yesterday as a controversial measure to charge empty rates on all commercial…
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30th October 2012
Tenant’s Rights to Buy Survive Transfer of Title
Tenant’s Rights to Buy Survive Transfer of Title
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A corporate landlord who tried to prevent its tenant from exercising option to purchase the property after the title to the property had… -
30th October 2012
Landlord and tenant case update: break options
Break Options
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Landlord and tenants often include break clauses in a lease which allow either or both parties to terminate the lease midway through the lease. Usually the break clause is…