Whether for flats, houses or mixed-use properties, leasehold reform can be complex, with significant value at stake. We act for UK and international clients, providing advice on all aspects of leasehold reform on UK properties. Combining expertise from our Property Dispute, Commercial Property and Company Commercial Teams, we deliver strategic and pragmatic advice tailored to your individual circumstances.
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Expert leasehold reform advice
Experienced in all leasehold reform procedures, we can advise you as a landlord, tenant, group of individuals, trust, company, property investor or developer. Offering more than procedural guidance, we take time to understand your concerns and provide bespoke advice to achieve successful and cost-effective outcomes.
If an agreement cannot be reached within statutory timetables, our experience representing clients in Courts and Tribunals ensures you have the best support. We also work closely with a network of enfranchisement experts who can provide trusted valuation advice, so you receive a reliable, consistent service throughout your case.
We focus on getting to know you and your lease situation, and building a long-term working relationship underpinned by honesty and trust.
Highlights
Our specialist Leasehold Reform Team has been involved in a number of high-profile cases in this area. Highlights include:
- acting for a landlord who owned the freehold of a building with five flats – four held by long-lease tenants and one owned by our client. The flats’ owners collectively purchased the building’s freehold from our client and issued proceedings. With the assistance of our client’s valuer, an acceptable premium was agreed for the purchase, including retention of the garden’s freehold and a long lease of the client’s flat
- acting for the landlord of a tenant seeking to extend their flat into loft space above. We served the requisite notices under the Landlord & Tenant legalisation and dealt with the preparation and grant of the new lease, including necessary changes to the service charge provisions
- acting for two tenants in the same building seeking to extend leases of their flats. This involved:
- collaboration with each tenants’ surveyors for guidance on the anticipated premium for the extended lease term
- preparing and serving appropriate notices in accordance with Landlord & Tenant legislation and handling applicable statutory procedures
- ensuring both tenants’ leases were prepared in the same format with identical terms
Expertise
- advising on the collective rights of tenants to join together and buy the freehold of their building (‘collective enfranchisement’)
- advising on the rights of tenants to join together and take over management of their building (‘right to manage’)
- advising on the obligation to make an offer to qualifying tenants to acquire the freehold of their building before agreeing to sell to a third party in respect to specific disposals (‘rights of pre-emption’)
- advising on lease extension
- making and defending applications to both the Court and Tribunal in the extension of long residential leases
Houses
- advising on a tenant’s right to buy the freehold of their house (‘enfranchisement’)
- advising on the extension of long leases of houses
Mixed-use premises
- providing strategic advice to landlords and developers in respect of mixed-use developments
- making and defending applications to the Court and Tribunal in relation to service charges
- advising on the management of mixed-use developments
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Oblige before you break
Even the most honest of leaseholders may be reluctant to query the terms of their lease in case it looks like they might not adhere to them, but careful attention should be paid to the conditions of any break clause.
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Broken break clauses
From last-minute demands to not being refunded rent, break clauses in property rental contracts can lead to unexpected situations for tenants (and landlords) if not carefully considered. In the second in a series of three articles on break clauses, Thrings …
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Tenants to meet energy efficiency standards?
The BREEAM sustainability assessment method seems to be working as far as new builds are concerned, but the same cannot be said for existing structures, with most landlords and...
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Thrings advises investor on multi-million pound Mayfair property acquisition
Leading commercial law firm Thrings has advised a private overseas property investor on the multi-million pound purchase of a mixed-use property in the heart of London’s exclusive Mayfair.
Read MoreNews 4 October 2016
Thrings open its doors for annual commercial property seminars
Building surveyors, property agents, planning consultants and public authorities will gather in Bath and Bristol this week for leading commercial law firm Thrings’ annual series of commercial property seminars.
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