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ProfessionalWhat can landlords do to alleviate the rise of corporation tax in 2023?
The government announced in the Budget that corporation tax is set to rise. While this won’t happen until April 2023, the increase from 19% to 25% is certainly not insignificant for businesses operating in the property sector.
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ProfessionalWhat opportunities could be available with commonhold?
The government is setting up a commission to consider how to reform and introduce commonhold – the English equivalent of ‘strata title’ or ‘condominium’) – on a wider scale.
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ProfessionalWill “Project Speed” help Councils build more houses?
The coronavirus pandemic is likely to have a significant impact on the delivery of new homes.
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ProfessionalDo WeWork’s special-purpose vehicles pose a risk to landlords?
The WeWork model is not atypical when it comes to ownership of property.
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ProfessionalHow has the Electronic Communications Code affected landlords in practice?
In 2010, the government pledged to deliver broadband to “every community in the UK” by 2015, but nine years later this target has still not been achieved.
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ProfessionalIs the planning use class system still fit for purpose?
The government’s reported plans to merge high street use classes raises questions about the use class system as a whole.
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ProfessionalWhen can landlords expect a zero rates bill during a refurbishment?
The Upper Tribunal has reconfirmed that empty properties undergoing refurbishment or improvement should have a nil or reduced rates assessment, dismissing a Valuation Office Agency (VOA) appeal that attempted to limit the 2017 Supreme Court ruling in Newbigin v Monk.
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ProfessionalHow can retail tenants avoid catching a cold on the high street?
Dark clouds have formed over our high streets and retailers are feeling under the weather. As PwC reported on 9 November, shops in the last six months have been closing at a rate of 14 a day, the worst net decline in five years.
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ProfessionalWill the Freehold Properties Bill put an end to 'fleeceholding'?
Following London mayor Sadiq Khan’s proposal of rent controls, Shakespeare Martineau’s Rachel Gwynne looks back at the Freehold Properties (Management Charges and Shared Facilities) Bill introduced to parliament last year.
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ProfessionalWhy has the CMA warned care home operators about contracts with residents?
In an open letter to care home providers, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has said that its research has prompted concerns “that some care homes may be treating residents unfairly and potentially breaking consumer law”.
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Insight2019 forecast: Adrian Barlow (Irwin Mitchell)
”Tech-focused cities will continue to grow and thrive - regional cities may be more immune than London to the continuing Brexit drama”
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ProfessionalBryan Johnston on the PLA's drive to reform property law
The head of the PLA talks about legal change, the organisation’s lobbying power and the impact of Brexit
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ProfessionalThe law and knotweed - are the floodgates now open for legal action?
A recent prosecution in Bristol has demonstrated a new aspect to property issues associated with Japanese Knotweed.
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ProfessionalKey court decisions of 2018: the year’s top 10 legal cases in property
Property law cases have made headlines throughout 2018. Mathew Ditchburn and Lien Tran consider some of the year’s key court rulings
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ProfessionalLandlords beware as S Franses ruling restores tenant protections
The Supreme Court’s recent ruling in S Franses v The Cavendish Hotel is, I believe, the most seminal change to the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 since 1954. The case concerned the hotel’s right to oppose the grant of a new tenancy to S Franses, on the grounds that Cavendish ...
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ProfessionalAcquiring an industrial asset with solar PV - solar so good for lenders?
The introduction of the original government incentives for rooftop Solar PV installations gave rise to booming levels of activity for a relatively short and intense period-of-time, the result of which was an abundance of so-called ‘rent-a-roof’ arrangements on large industrial premises.
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ProfessionalPilot project saves time and money in renewal of business tenancies
The two things you need to know about any business process are how long it will take and how much it will cost. With the answers to these questions, you can decide if the process will add value. So what about the renewal of business tenancies where the issue is ...
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ProfessionalEnforcement notices are necessary but should be applied with care
What started with an alleged clerical error of misplaced documents by Islington Council has now snowballed into a full-blown demolition order of architect Amin Taha’s £4.65m offices and family home.
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ProfessionalLandmark decision curtails leaseholders’ freedom to refurbish property
Leaseholder’s success in suing landlord for allowing another tenant to renovate their flat has far-reaching implications.
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ProfessionalHague Convention should mean UK judgments enforceable in EU states
Since the Brexit vote, property investors may want to know whether UK judgments will continue to be enforceable in the courts of EU member states when the UK leaves the EU.
