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What should I think about before I buy my freehold? The Cons.
For many Leaseholders getting together with fellow Leaseholders to buy the freehold of the building they occupy is seen as the end of problems with freeholders and controlling their own destiny. Whilst this is of course true before going down this maj…
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Mediation: what is it all about?
Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) have become buzz words used by litigators over the past few years. Sadly…
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“Why Do I Need Court Proceedings? And What Do These Involve?
Many of our readers will know why there is a need to obtain a Court Order to evict residential tenants however for those that do not we hope the below helps.
If someone is occupying a residential property whether lawfully or not then an Order of the C…
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Joint Tenants: what does this mean?
Many of you will have read in the press about the case recently brought by Geoffrey Boycott for professional negligence against his advisers concerning the way in which he owned a property with his former partner and which made us think about the issue…
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Regulations in housing law
Looking at the various regulations which apply to landlords and tenants when renting property
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The social rented sector
Looking at social housing law – a quick history and a bit about tenancy types
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Explaining the Housing Act 1988
My Foundations in Landlord and Tenant Law series has reached the present, and here we look at the Housing Act 1988 which sets up the code governing short lets today
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The basic rules of tenancies – before the codes
Before we consider the statutory codes we need to look at the rules which apply under the pre existing common law
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Differentiating tenancies from business lets and long leases
Foundations of landlord and tenant law – part 8 This series of posts is directed towards increasing understanding of short lets, so in future posts we will largely be concentrating on these. However before moving on to this, I just want to look at two issues: the situation where a lease is for both business…
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Common law and statute
Foundations of landlord and tenant law – part 7 In the beginning there was the common law. As discussed in the post on Equity and Law, and also this post on the common law here, it has developed over many years and is largely based on the decisions of Judges as recorded in the law…
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