The team’s specialist expertise includes advising on the following:

Real estate issues arising from:

• land sale and purchase transactions
• development agreements
• option and overage provisions
• rights of light
• restrictive covenants
• nuisance
• boundary disputes
• agricultural land issues
• trespassers
• telecoms masts
• wayleaves
• providing strategic advice to obtain vacant possession of development sites
• party wall disputes
• misrepresentation
• reconstruction
• failure to complete
• recovery of rent
• service charge disputes
• block estate management
• right of first refusal
• commission claim disputes
• off-plan contracts and disputes
• failure to complete
• collective enfranchisement

Landlord and tenant issues, acting for either landlords or tenants, arising from:

• commercial and residential lease renewals
• rent reviews
• lease assignment and subletting breaches of lease covenants
• unlawful use and alteration
• recovering possession
• effective exercise of lease break rights
• mixed use schemes including statutory right of pre-emption
• statutory lease extensions and enfranchisement
• enforcement of security
• dilapidations protocol and claims
• forfeiture and landlord remedies
• recovery of rent and service chargers
• tenant insolvency

We also advise on the insolvency of borrowers, tenants and landlords and professional negligence in the real estate arena, and probate issues relating to real estate rights.