Residential Property

When disagreements arise between neighbours about the ownership of land, it is invariably best to try to reach an amicable solution rather than engage in litigation. In an unusual case...

Under Section 21 of the Housing Act 1988, landlords may evict tenants who have an assured shorthold tenancy which is a periodic tenancy or a fixed-term tenancy that has expired...

A guide to issues relating to property boundaries is available on the government’s website. The guide notes that, in England and Wales, there is usually no record of the...

The Upper Tribunal (UT) has granted a landowner’s application to modify a restrictive covenant to allow a small bungalow to be constructed in place of a workshop. The landowner...

The Upper Tribunal (UT) has allowed a landowner’s appeal against the rejection of his application to be registered as the proprietor of a parcel of land on the basis of...

A homeowner has succeeded in his application for a boundary determination after his neighbours extended their driveway and built a fence in front of his window. The homeowner had...

A man whose home suffered damage because of problems with its foundations has been awarded provisional damages of more than £423,000 from the housebuilder from which he bought the property....

Where the record of a property’s title at the Land Registry contains a mistake, Paragraph 5(a) of Schedule 4 of the Land Registration Act 2002 allows the register to be...

It is wise to seek legal advice before making an application to the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) for a determination of liability to pay service charges. Recently, the FTT was unable...

The register of a property’s title can be rectified if it contains a mistake. The question of what constitutes proof of a mistake was the subject of a recent case...