29 June 2017
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has updated its subject access code of practice to reflect developments in Court of Appeal judgments given in early 2017.
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23 May 2017
When, in September 2015, Private Eye published their online map of properties in England and Wales owned by overseas companies, few would have suspected that ...
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15 May 2017
Article 30 of the Fourth Money Laundering Directive, which relates to beneficial ownership of corporate and other legal entities, will bring about changes to the UK's existing 'People with Significant Control' (PSC) regime.
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19 April 2017
Earlier this month, the Evening Standard reported that a fruit farmer, Paul Mansfield, had sought permission to appeal an order requiring him to pay £12.2 million to his ex-wife.
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20 March 2017
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has published much awaited guidance on minimum energy efficiency standards (MEES) for non-domestic property.
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6 March 2017
Marketing your property for sale – when does a selling agent's commission become due? Not many sellers think of their conveyancer when considering a selling agent's terms of business as part of their initial instruction on who best to market the property.
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2 March 2017
On 1 March 2017, the Supreme Court decided that property owners seeking to carry out refurbishments can claim business rates relief.
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27 February 2017
What happens to those property contracts that have already been entered into when the Government announces a SDLT rate change? Unsurprisingly, with off-plan residential properties and agreements for commercial leases being marketed and exchanged far in advance of their respective build date and completion dates, this is a frequently asked question.
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13 February 2017
With two swift and successful squatters' evictions by our property litigation team in the first few weeks of January, as well as a recent high-profile judgment eviction of squatters from a £15m Belgravia property, 2017 is looking to be, not only the year of the rooster, but also the year of the squatter!
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16 January 2017
The recent case of Trevallion v Watmore & Another (2016) reminds us why buyers must carry out a careful inspection of the boundaries of a property prior to purchase.
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