When is a house not a house ? The answer appears to be when it is on the Grosvenor Estate, used 88.5% as offices and has a lease clause that restricts the property to such use under the terms of the lease. The latest case on what constitutes a hou…

A key issue for tenants serving notice on their landlords to purchase their freehold or extend their lease under the provisions of the 1993 Act will always be the offer figure put forward in their initial notice. ‘If the offer figure is too low, t…

An interesting case from the High Court from the back end of 2007 that appears to have escaped much notice is Typeteam (Typeteam Limited v Douglas James Acton and Sarah Louise Elizabeth Lea CH/07/PTA/0067). This was a case concerning the assignmen…