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We already know that there will be a (residential) leasehold reform bill as part of the King's Speech, but the Sunday Times today (29.10.23) has some more details about what might be included. Leasehold houses The most eye-catching proposal is probably the...
Radcliffe Investment Properties Ltd v Meeson & Ors (LANDLORD AND TENANT - SERVICE CHARGES) (2023) UKUT 209 (LC) This is a very interesting appeal to the Upper Tribunal on the issue of a freeholder recovering waking watch costs through the leaseholder's...
A couple of leasehold cases, one on flat entrance doors and, one on rights of access through those doors. First, Fivaz v Marlborough Knightsbridge Management Ltd (LANDLORD AND TENANT - BREACH OF COVENANT) (2020) UKUT 138 (LC), a skirmish in what appears to...
Holding And Management (Solitaire) Ltd v Miller (LANDLORD AND TENANT - SERVICE CHARGES) (2019) UKUT 402 (LC) An Upper Tribunal appeal decision where just about everything that could have been wrong about the first instance First Tier Tribunal decision was....
Avon Ground Rents Ltd v (1) Cowley & Others, (2) Metropolitan Housing Trust, (3) Advance, (4) May Hempstead Partnership [2019] EWCA Civ 1827 (no transcript yet on BAILII, we've seen a copy on Lawtel) This is an important Court of Appeal decision...
There have been a fair few recent (and perhaps no-so-recent) decisions from the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) on leasehold matters, so it's time for a bit of a round up. Actually, it was time for a bit of a round up back in August when I started this post...
The Times reports on a story of forfeiture of a residential lease (paywall or limited free access). I'm noting this not because of any particular legal complications, but because it is one of the relatively rare examples where forfeiture actually happened....
In John Romans Park Homes Ltd v Hancock [2018] UKUT 249 (LC), Martin Rodger QC, Deputy President of the Upper Tribunal, made an interesting, tricky, but important distinction concerning the criteria for when a park provides security for a mobile home. ...
Gilpin and ors v Legg [2017] EWHC 3220 (Ch) is a gift (at least to land law examiners) that is going to keep on giving. This is not just because of the claims discussed - whether beach huts were fixtures or chattels, whether a lease had been granted to the...
A couple of quick notes on forfeiture of leases. Cheerupmate2 Ltd v Calce (2017) UKUT 377 (TCC) Forfeiture for ground rent arrears was not valid because: a) The wrong notice under s.166 Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 had been served. The notice was...
Under section 20B(1) Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, a service charge must be demanded of the tenant within 18 months of the relevant cost having been incurred by the landlord. But what happens when there is a head landlord demanding a charge from an...
In Octagon Overseas Ltd and Canary Riverside Management Ltd v Coates [2017] EWHC 877 (Ch), the First-tier Tribunal appointed Mr Coates as the manager of Canary Riverside (a development comprising, amongst other things, four blocks of residential apartments...