my office is right next to a tube station and it is true that you dont even notice the trains after a while. In fact the only time you notice the trains is when there are none running due to a...

Like all managing agents i deal with muppets like the guy on the top floor every day of the week. There's usually at least one in each block. Each of them have their own brand of insanity which makes...

if around today in leadership, she'd be leading us out of the EU, which has proved to be just backdoor socialism

you can get the seller to negotiate outside the act with nthe freeholder to agree terms and pay a price inclusive of the extension

You may well be right Lawcruncher, but my understanding is that the right to a new lease under the act arises after six months tenancy. Perhaps the best thing the OP is hang on keep paying the rent...

if you dont care about falling out with the landlord you could take a bullish line and claim to have a tenancy protected by Part Two of the 1954 Landlord and Tenant Act. Essentially this would give...

you must not duplicate the freeholders' buildings insurance as to do so will void both policies. You have enough junk in the flat to take out a landlord's contents policy which will give you the...

sorry to labour the point very long leasehold, but you seem to have missed the key point : a bank selling under a power of sale has no rights whatsoever to make a valid claim under the act

space in ealing is so valuable that to gain even a hundred square feet of accommodation could add a lot to the value

this is fine if the seller will play ball. If a seller exercising a power of sale under a charge they have no such rights

Id say you have answered you own question. By the time you have bought the lease extension there wont be much of a saving. 70 years is well short. You can always chip the price you've offered. The...

In real life it is probably better for you to insure the building and recover. In the event of a serious claim a multiplicity of insurers is not so good; plus having one freeholders' policy will...

If re-entry was attempted as a method of forfeiture, the lessee would be entitled, furthermore, to seek relief.

the lease will almost certainly give you the right to insure in default of the tenant doing so and recover the premium as a debt, or if you are lucky as rent in arrear. Do it

My experience has been very mixed indeed. If at all possible find a private tenant. Generally the local authority will treat you as fair game and have no regard to what happens to you or your...

I think it is more straightforward than you envisage. You serve a s42 notice on your immediate landlord with a suggested premium, and the recipient of that notice is under a legal obligation to bring...

I think you have been treated unreasonably harshly and ought to be successful in the end. They are probably more concerned that the place was actually unoccupied as all policies limit payments in the...

no this is a situation whereby the freehold of one flat only is owned by a third party, ie not the freeholder of the rest of the estate

more to the point did the tenant leave any weed? I would be willing to take it away for environmentally friendly disposal - which may involve drying it out and burning it in small quantities!

i agree. many landlords would mistakenly think they are entitled to notice in this scenario. If the landlord is given notice, marketing may commence and if you are really lucky you will not have much...

this tenant cares not a damn about the incoming tenants whom he is greatly inconveniencing. Shame deposits are not larger. Perhaps that would be the only way of assuring a reasonable level of lease...

If a landlord (non resident) assigns the benefit of the reversionary interest in one lessee's flat is that exempt from

A RFR (right of first refusal)

B The requirement to serve s5 notices.
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I disagree. the costs alone could easily come to in the region of £3,000, given that you will be obliged to pay both sides'. The overall cost could easily be as much as £7500

the indemnity provisions of such an insurance policy is even more important than the material damage section. In other words the key part of the policy is the protection it gives the policyholder...

If it is upmarket property I'd suggest a City firm with substantial private client departments such as Blake Lapthorn, Berwin Leighton Paisner,or Withers. When it comes to lawyers, cheap can be dear