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The Department for Levelling Up Housing and Communities have recently closed a consultation on compulsory purchase compensation reforms. This follows on from the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill that was recently published in May 2022. This bill...
We appreciate that landlords will be keen to evict tenants who are not paying rent, or causing nuisance or damage to their property, but it is important in these situations to make sure that the correct due diligence and accuracy is accounted for. ...
This package of support will be greeted with a collective sigh of relief from many business owners. It offers some respite from the relentless list of challenges they have had to contend with over the past two years. Spiralling energy costs have already...
An assured shorthold tenancy (AST) agreement normally has to be a minimum term of six months. Although it is not a legal requirement, we recommend it being signed by both the tenant and landlord in front of a witness who can sign that they witnessed the...
The last 2 years have been economically challenging for many businesses including landlords of commercial premises. There has been significant changes and differing measures in place in relation to the recovery of unpaid rent by tenants. During the...
‘No-fault eviction’ or Section 21 rules currently enable a landlord to evict a tenant from their property without any reason. If the landlord decides at the end of the tenant’s fixed term that they no longer wish to let to that...
The pandemic has been a very difficult time for most businesses and while the latest set of restrictions have now largely been lifted in England and Wales, the financial impact of the last two years is likely to last for some time. In such difficult...
On 15 December 2021 The Ratings (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualification (Dissolved Companies) Act 2021 gained royal assent. Under this new legislation, directors of dissolved companies which received financial assistance during the pandemic face...
The Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020 imposed new obligations on private landlords of residential properties . The regulations came into force on 1 June 2020 and they have applied to all new tenancies from...
As the previous restrictions preventing any creditor from presenting a winding up petition to the court expired on 30 September 2021, new legislation has now been put in place, in a further effort to reduce the number of companies being wound up by the...
