Tim Reid
@propertylitigation.bsky.social
Solicitor in Tier 1 and Band 1 ranked Hogan Lovells Real Estate Disputes team. "Associate to Watch" (Chambers 2024) and "Key Lawyer" (Legal500 2024).
Not only is it very unlikely that those indexation factors will become negative (think about recent downturns and when the BoE base rate was barely over 0%), but index-linked reviews could prop up rents where inflation outstrips true market rents for an asset, locality, or the real estate market
July 18, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Not only is it very unlikely that those indexation factors will become negative (think about recent downturns and when the BoE base rate was barely over 0%), but index-linked reviews could prop up rents where inflation outstrips true market rents for an asset, locality, or the real estate market
I've since wondered whether the preservation of index-linked rent reviews (albeit theoretically possible of reducing rents on review if the CPI or RPI were to go *down*) will dull the impact of the proposed reforms, albeit still reducing the scope for rents to properly keep pace with market values
July 18, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I've since wondered whether the preservation of index-linked rent reviews (albeit theoretically possible of reducing rents on review if the CPI or RPI were to go *down*) will dull the impact of the proposed reforms, albeit still reducing the scope for rents to properly keep pace with market values
(4/4) ... rather wealthy long leaseholders, including investors who hold a number of leases as investments and to let out (which brings to mind memories of the Dolphin Square "collective" enfranchisement case). A case to watch as it unfolds this week ... www.housingtoday.co.uk/news/freehol...
Freeholders bring challenge to leasehold reforms to High Court
Landowners claim the reforms passed before the election in 2024 breach their human rights
www.housingtoday.co.uk
July 18, 2025 at 8:36 AM
(4/4) ... rather wealthy long leaseholders, including investors who hold a number of leases as investments and to let out (which brings to mind memories of the Dolphin Square "collective" enfranchisement case). A case to watch as it unfolds this week ... www.housingtoday.co.uk/news/freehol...
(3/4) The applicants, including two charitable trusts, argue amongst other things that the main beneficiary of changes to the way enfranchisement premiums are calculated will not be the ordinary person in the street, but
July 18, 2025 at 8:36 AM
(3/4) The applicants, including two charitable trusts, argue amongst other things that the main beneficiary of changes to the way enfranchisement premiums are calculated will not be the ordinary person in the street, but
(2/4) The court will have heard arguments about unfair transfer of value without compensation from freeholder to leaseholder in breach of the right to property enshrined in the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR).
July 18, 2025 at 8:36 AM
(2/4) The court will have heard arguments about unfair transfer of value without compensation from freeholder to leaseholder in breach of the right to property enshrined in the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR).
In a relatively short judgment the SC found the wording of s10(1) of the Dartmoor Commons Act 1985 "unambiguous". The right to enter Dartmoor for open-air recreation is not caevated by the words "on foot and on horseback" which relate only to the means of access for those pursuits.
May 21, 2025 at 10:23 AM
In a relatively short judgment the SC found the wording of s10(1) of the Dartmoor Commons Act 1985 "unambiguous". The right to enter Dartmoor for open-air recreation is not caevated by the words "on foot and on horseback" which relate only to the means of access for those pursuits.