landlord

24

Mar

2022

Absentee Tenant Pays High Price for Failing to Leave Forwarding Address

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Written by Claire Cooper

Absentee or non-resident tenants who do not leave their landlords with a forwarding address place themselves in acute legal danger. In one case, a tenant who failed to take that sensible step suffered forfeiture of her 140-year lease due to her non-...

13

Oct

2021

At Last, Some Good News for Residential Landlords

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Written by Sydney Mitchell

Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic landlords have struggled to commence repossession proceedings against their tenants who have breached their assured short hold tenancy agreements (“AST”), because of the moratorium introduced by the Government on...

29

Jun

2021

Commercial Leases and Opting Out of Security of Tenure – Test Case Ruling

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Written by Sydney Mitchell

Commercial landlords and tenants may contract out of the security of tenure provisions of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, but only if certain conditions are met. One of those conditions came under close analysis by the Court of Appeal in a ruling...

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