Tag Archive for 'rent review'

Outstanding rent reviews – a cautionary tale

By Francis Davey on 20/11/2009. 0 Comments

Bello v Ideal View [2009] EWHC 2808 (QB) — a case not yet available on bailii — illustrates the dangers with leaving a rent review outstanding.

Mr Bello bought what appear from the transcript to be residential premises at an auction in July 2005. The had been let on a 50 year lease in May 1969 at an annual rent of £60 to be paid quarterly. The terms of sale excluded the seller’s liability for arrears of rent above £60 per annum. Such an exclusion should make any purchaser’s ear’s prick up because it suggests there may be an outstanding rent review and thus an possible additional liability for rent.… Read the full post

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Rent review (Megarry at last…)

By Francis Davey on 17/06/2009. 0 Comments

Avid students of assured tenancies will know that the late Sir Robert Megarry wondered (in his work the Rent Acts) what would happen to a term providing for a mechanism for setting the rent that was written into a fixed term assured tenancy after that tenancy had become a statutory periodic tenancy. The High Court has given us an answer in the case of London District Properties Management Limited v Goolamy [2009] EWHC 1367 (Admin).

For those who have more pressing interests than rent review, the legal background is this. Section 13 of the Housing Act 1988 creates a system by which a landlord may increase the rent of … Read the full post