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Navigating the Building Safety Act
Posted: 28/06/2023
The Building Safety Act 2022 received royal assent on 28 April 2022, and since then has been implemented in stages, with parts yet to come into force. With the aim of improving building safety across the whole built environment sector in the UK, it introduces a regime overseen by a new Building Safety Regulator with particular emphasis......>>
When to use agreements for lease
Posted: 06/06/2023
Giorgia Clements outlines the circumstances in which agreements for lease may be required, and important considerations to watch out for. You have found a property, heads of terms are finalised, solicitors are appointed and you are thinking about fit-out plans and completion timings. Now your solicitor is talking about......>>
Aviva Investors Ground Rent GP Ltd and another (Respondents) v Williams and others (Appellants) [2023] UKSC 6
Posted: 01/03/2023
On 8 February 2023, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision providing clarification on the issue of the re-apportionment of service charges in residential leases. Property litigation partner Ben Robinson acted for the landlords in the case, Aviva Investors Ground Rent, instructing Simon Allison and Brooke Lyne of Landmark Chambers......>>
Overseas entities: Let the registration race begin
Posted: 16/09/2022
The progress of the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 has continued apace since it was passed in March 2022, with the new publicly accessible register detailing the beneficial ownership of overseas entities holding certain interests in UK property (ROE) having launched on 1 August 2022......>>
What can landlords do now to collect commercial rent arrears?
Posted: 12/05/2022
For the last two years, the rights and remedies available to landlords of commercial premises to collect arrears of rent from their tenants have been severely curtailed. S82 of the Coronavirus Act 2020 banned landlords from forfeiting leases for non-payment of rent and the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 banned landlords from......>>

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Commercial tenant default in the time of Covid-19: What can I do as a landlord?
With the latest Government announcement that forfeiture for unpaid rents is to remain off the table to landlords until 31 December 2020 – and with insolvency action for unpaid rents also substantially curtailed by the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 - we look here at what options remain available to landlords – both in relation to unpaid rents and other tenant breaches.

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