Real Estate Law UK

Buying commercial property runs on a different rulebook from residential: its own SDLT bands, VAT elections that change the price by 20%, energy standards…

In URS Corporation Ltd v BDW Trading Ltd [2025] UKSC 21 the Supreme Court held that a developer which repairs defective buildings voluntarily does…

Any overseas company holding UK property is now inside a compliance cycle that never ends: register with Companies House, verify through a UK-regulated agent,…

For thirty-six years a long lease with ground rent above £250 a year — £1,000 in Greater London — could count as an assured…

A surrender ends a lease before its time by agreement — and only by agreement. Neither side can force it: the tenant cannot walk…

A grant of a new lease creates a leasehold estate that did not exist before — the landlord carves a term out of their…

Can you rent out your leasehold flat? Usually yes — but the permission does not come from owning it. It comes from the lease,…

A leaseholder of a house can compel the freeholder to sell — that is the Leasehold Reform Act 1967, and it still does the…

A commercial lease agreement is usually the largest contract a small business ever signs — and the least negotiated. The lease the landlord’s solicitor…

Assigning a lease means transferring the whole of your leasehold interest to someone else — the assignee steps into the lease as tenant, and…

ATED is the annual price of holding a home worth over £500,000 inside a company: between £4,600 and £303,450 for 2026-27, payable every April,…

Collective enfranchisement lets the leaseholders of a block compel the freeholder to sell them the building — half the flats participating, a section 13…