Real Estate Development Notes

NSW Stamp Duty Alert: Acknowledgment of Trust

NSW Stamp Duty Reforms: Change of Beneficial Ownership – where have we landed? Significant changes to leases and option transactions

Sale and Leasebacks - Why So Popular?

Agreements with Registered Providers: 5 Top Tips

Brexit isn't frustrating...at least for leases

Landlords can (for now at least) breathe a sigh of relief as the High Court has ruled that a tenant cannot bring its obligations under a lease to an end …

Opening the door to community and landlord engagement

This article was first published on Lexis®PSL Property on 24 January 2019.  Fiona Sawyer, professional support lawyer in the planning team at …

Real Estate EP4: Brexit and the UK real estate market

In this podcast, Herbert Smith Freehills' Matthew Bonye and Tom Leech QC  discuss the important Canary Wharf Group v European …

Indigestion for landlords: a new acid test for redevelopment under ground (f)

In October, we wrote about the Supreme Court case S. Franses Ltd v The Cavendish Hotel (London) Limited [2018] UKSC 62, concerning a landlord’s ability …

Landlords' motives for redevelopment – good, bad or irrelevant?

Today the Supreme Court will hear the case of S. Franses Ltd v The Cavendish Hotel (London) Limited, a case which property litigators have been following …

LANDOWNERS AND DEVELOPERS - BEWARE THE RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL

Are you a landlord or developer of property which includes residential flats?  Are you going to dispose of your interest in that property?  If …

Residential leasehold - time for change?

At the end of July, hard on the heels of the Housing White Paper published in February, DCLG issued a Consultation Paper on "Tackling unfair practices in …

Leasehold pitfalls – termination risks of leasehold development site structures

Author: Simon Elliott, Senior Associate, Real Estate, London A number of recent transactions where we have acted for banks and lenders have emphasised …