When is a house not a house ? In this case the tenant had an 18th Century Central London house. The property was originally designed as a house but had subsequently been used as commercial premises. As at the date that the notice of claim was serv…

The registration gap (the so-called interval between completion of a purchase and completion of the registration of the buyer’s title at the land registry) has the scope to cause a variety of problems in the field of leasehold reform as a decision…

How much of a property does a landlord have to wish to redevelop in order to defeat the tenant’s claim to a new lease under Section 47 of the 1993 Act? Readers will probably be familiar with the fact that long leasehold flat owners have the right …