Real Estate Law UK

Every lease extension is one of two bargains. The statutory route is compulsion on fixed terms: 90 extra years, peppercorn rent, price argued to…

The statutory lease extension gives a qualifying flat owner 90 extra years at a peppercorn ground rent, whether the freeholder likes it or not…

You do not pay stamp duty on genuine chattels — the carpets, curtains and free-standing furniture that come with a house. You do pay…

Around 4.8 million properties in England are leasehold — roughly one home in five — and buying one is not like buying a freehold.…

Selling a leasehold flat is a documents game: the sale moves at the speed of the management pack, prices off the unexpired term, and…

Renting in London is still a competition — but since 1 May 2026 it is a refereed one. Section 21 evictions are gone, every…

When the hammer falls at a property auction, you have exchanged contracts — no survey condition, no cooling-off, no renegotiation. Caveat emptor still governs…

In London Trocadero v Picturehouse Cinemas [2025] EWHC 1247 (Ch), the High Court held that a landlord’s insurance commissions were not recoverable from the…

British housing law is 177 years of crisis and response: cholera built the first housing statutes, war built the council estates, inflation built Right…

Buying any residential property beyond your only home now carries a 5% surcharge on the whole price — raised from 3% at the October…

The advantages of entering the UK market are practical rather than promotional: contract law the world already writes into its deals, no minimum investment…

Nothing stops a non-resident buying UK property — no citizenship test, no ownership restriction, state-backed title at the end. What overseas buyers face instead…