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Property weekly highlights—29 May 2025

Property weekly highlights—29 May 2025

The following Property news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Property weekly highlights—29 May 2025

MHCLG clarifies position on roof gardens as storeys

MHCLG clarifies position on roof gardens as storeys
Supreme Court affirms developer’s right to bring negligence, DPA 1972 and contribution claims for repair costs against structural engineer (URS v BDW)

Supreme Court affirms developer’s right to bring negligence, DPA 1972 and contribution claims for repair costs against structural engineer (URS v BDW)

The following Construction news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Supreme Court affirms developer’s right to bring negligence, DPA 1972 and contribution claims for repair costs against structural engineer (URS v BDW)

MHCLG publishes working paper on site threshold reforms

MHCLG publishes working paper on site threshold reforms

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Legal mortgages and legal charges

Legal mortgages and legal charges

Legal mortgages and legal chargesThe terms ‘mortgage’ and ‘charge’ are often used as though they are interchangeable. Strictly speaking, they are not....

Severance of a joint tenancy

Severance of a joint tenancy

Severance of a joint tenancySeverance is the process by which a joint tenancy is converted into a tenancy in common. It is a matter of evidence...

What is a certificate of title?

What is a certificate of title?

What is a certificate of title?A certificate of title (also known as a certificate on title) is a particular species of report on title.When...

Indemnity covenants in property transfers

Indemnity covenants in property transfers

Indemnity covenants in property transfersThis Practice Note looks at when an indemnity covenant should be given in a transfer of land. For general...

Precedents

Guide to executing deeds and documents in property transactions

Guide to executing deeds and documents in property transactionsThis Precedent sets out precedent execution clauses for the types of entities most...
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2nd Mar
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Precedents

Supplemental agreement/deed of variation to vary a property sale contract

Supplemental agreement/deed of variation to vary a property sale contractThis [Agreement OR Deed] is made on [insert date]Parties1[Insert name of...
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2nd Mar
Practice notes

Easements—nature and characteristics

Easements—nature and characteristicsNature of an easementAn easement is an incorporeal right enjoyed by the owner of a legal estate (dominant...
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2nd Mar
Practice notes

Establishing a beneficial interest (joint ownership)

Establishing a beneficial interest (joint ownership)Where two or more people together own real property, they hold it under a trust of land. Where...
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1st Mar
Practice notes

Resulting trusts

Resulting trustsResulting trusts represent one of the three types of trust which do not require to be declared or evidenced in writing. The others are...
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30th May
Practice notes

Lease variations—surrender and re-grant issues

Lease variations—surrender and re-grant issuesA surrender and re-grant by operation of law can occur if an agreed variation of the terms of a lease is...
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2nd Mar
Practice notes

Reversionary leases

Reversionary leasesReversionary leases (or future leases) are granted to take effect in possession at a future date. This Practice Note looks at:•when...
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30th May
Practice notes

How unincorporated associations hold property

How unincorporated associations hold propertyWhat is an unincorporated association?In Koeppler, an unincorporated association was described as ‘an...
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2nd Mar
Practice notes

The Standard Conditions of Sale (5th edition: 2018 revision)—a guide to the main provisions

The Standard Conditions of Sale (5th edition: 2018 revision)—a guide to the main provisionsThe Standard Conditions of Sale (SCS), currently in their...
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30th May
Practice notes

Carrying out bankruptcy searches at the Land Charges Department

Carrying out bankruptcy searches at the Land Charges DepartmentIntroductionThis Practice Note looks at the circumstances in which a bankruptcy search...
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30th May
Practice notes

Easements—LPA 1925, s 62 and permissions

Easements—LPA 1925, s 62 and permissionsSection 62 of the Law of Property Act 1925 (LPA 1925) (section 62) is, in essence, a word-saving device....
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30th May
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Practice notes

Land registration—overriding interests, occupiers and interests which have lost overriding status

Occupiers and overriding interestsOverriding interests are interests which are binding on property even though they are not shown on the register....
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30th May
Practice notes

Dealing with rights of access in property transactions—Scotland

Dealing with rights of access in property transactions—ScotlandOwnership, leasing or any other permitted use of land normally requires access to it to...
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28th Mar
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Practice notes

Lease surrenders

Lease surrendersWhat is a lease surrender?A lease surrender is a mutual agreement between the landlord and the tenant to bring the lease to an end...
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30th May
Q&As

A chargor (an individual) is granting a legal charge to a chargee (a company). Can an employee of the chargee witness the signature of the chargor?

A chargor (an individual) is granting a legal charge to a chargee (a company). Can an employee of the chargee witness the signature of the...
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30th May
Practice notes

Profits à prendre

Profits à prendreIntroduction — what is a profit à prendre?A profit à prendre is the right to take natural resources from another person’s land....
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30th May

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Contracts for the sale of land—formation, signature and variation

Contracts for the sale of land—formation, signature and variationIntroductionA contract for the sale, or other disposition, of an interest in land is void unless it complies with section 2 of the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989 (LP(MP)A 1989). This provides that it must:•be in

Establishing a beneficial interest (joint ownership)

Establishing a beneficial interest (joint ownership)Where two or more people together own real property, they hold it under a trust of land. Where property is held on a trust of land, the legal estate and equitable estate are separate. The legal estate must be held by the co-owners as joint tenants.

Death of the seller or buyer between exchange and completion

Death of the seller or buyer between exchange and completionStatus of the contractDuring the process of buying a property, exchange of contracts is when the parties exchange signed contracts, and the buyer pays the deposit. Once this has taken place, the agreement becomes legally binding and major

Merger of freehold and leasehold titles—law and land registration procedure

Merger of freehold and leasehold titles—law and land registration procedureMerger may determine a lease when both the lease and the reversion on that lease become vested in the same person and that person holds both interests in the same capacity.However, merger does not arise automatically when