Elizabeth England

This Q&A looks at what happens to beneficial interests where there is no express declaration of trust or documents indicating how the beneficial interests should be held.

This Q&A considers the differences between an LA and an LHA.

This Q&A considers the offer notice, the nominated person, refusal of the offer, acceptance of the offer, the landlord sending the contract, the qualifying tenants completing the contract, and sale by auction.

This Q&A considers the issues that should be considered when a tenant agrees to store equipment (eg vehicles) belonging to a third party on its premises, but is prohibited from ‘sharing occupation of the premises or granting rights over the premises to a third party’ under its commercial lease. There would be no agreement between the tenant and the third party expressly granting any rights over the premises.

This Q&A outlines the right to buy procedure, highlighting the relevant timescales for each stage of the process and the available remedies caused by delay.

This Q&A considers whether when a management company carries out repair works and obligations contained within a lease, does this supersede and/or extinguish the landlord’s obligations/rights to carry out the same works.

This Q&A considers whether the seller’s solicitor should carry out money-laundering checks on the buyer and source of funds before accepting such funds paid via the auction house when the seller is disposing of a property by auction.

This Q&A looks at leasehold enfranchisement.

This Q&A looks at how a landlord can ensure that buildings erected by a tenant with permission as part of their lease are removed from the land when the tenant vacates.

This Q&A considers whether a landlord can use the accelerated possession proceedings claim form and particulars of claim where they have not kept copies of any tenancy agreements other than the most recent one.

This Q&A considers whether there are any particular steps a landlord must take to transfer deposits to new landlord when selling a residential property for which the residential tenants have paid tenancy deposits.

This Q&A considers what the deadline is where a possession order has obtained from the court in relation to a section 20 notice under the accelerated procedure.

This Q&A will consider whether a reserve fund needs to be refunded to the party who made the contribution if they are not the current leaseholder.

This Q&A looks at the ramifications of a change of landlord in relation to a protected Rent (Agriculture) Act tenancy.

This Q&A considers whether a lease would be created where a tenant of a community centre has agreed to hire out its hall between 10am and 3pm each weekday.

This Q&A looks at the effect of an oral agreement relating to a property on successors in title.

This Q&A looks at whether signing an acknowledgment as to ownership dating back to 1996 would defeat an application for adverse possession today.