Keeping It Real Estate, published by Hogan Lovells, focuses on legal developments and regulatory changes affecting real estate in England and Wales. The blog covers topics such as leasehold reform and lease extension rights, commonhold ownership structures, energy efficiency standards and sustainability initiatives in buildings, community infrastructure levy (CIL) regulations and appeals, and tax disclosure rules impacting cross-border real estate transactions. It provides updates on government policies, legislative reforms, and practical implications for property owners, developers, investors, and legal practitioners involved in real estate matters.
Avid readers will have seen our previous blog on the government’s proposals to protect commercial tenants from the risk of forfeiture for non-payment of rent, as a result of COVID-19.
The proposals were incorporated into section 82 of the Coronavirus…
COVID-19 UK: Many insurance policies require annual lift servicing and water management system servicing. Is there any flexibility in policies for this sort of thing in exceptional circumstances?
Our understanding is that insurers should be flexible around these sorts of…
As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across the globe, so does uncertainty. Landlords and tenants are facing unprecedented impacts on their businesses, and it is no surprise in this environment that both parties are looking to their insurance for comfort.
Business…
It will not have escaped the attention of anyone in the real estate industry that today is the March quarter day. For many landlords and occupiers, the immediate focus will be on rent payments due today and the media are…
The UK government’s actions are ramping up as it battles to contain the spread of COVID-19 and enforce social distancing. To assist with this, secondary legislation has been enacted to establish a new permitted development right for takeaways.
What are…
Yesterday, as well as locking down the country, the government published critical amendments to the emergency Coronavirus Bill protecting commercial tenants from the risk of forfeiture until the end of June 2020.
The Bill, together with these amendments, has now…
The government has confirmed it will bring forward emergency legislation to protect residential tenants from eviction. Following the Budget which announced mortgage “holidays” for those who own their homes, the government has been urged to assist private renters impacted by…
In Boris Johnson’s first daily coronavirus update yesterday, he urged the general public to stop “non-essential contact” and “all unnecessary travel”, and to avoid social venues including “pubs, clubs and theatres”.
Although supermarkets have been doing a roaring trade in…
As hand gels and toilet paper fly off the shelves and children across the world cross their fingers for school closures, the COVID-19 strain of coronavirus has taken over the news. The outbreak has now been declared as a pandemic…
Here is a brief summary of the measures in the March 2020 Budget which are relevant to the Real Estate sector.
Non-UK resident companies with UK property income – As previously announced, non-UK resident companies that carry on a UK property…
