Features – Page 4
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Conveyancing: Home truths
Conveyancers are generally upbeat, though pressure on fees, demanding clients and cyber fraud all present urgent challenges. The Gazette’s latest roundtable.
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Leases and side letter concessions
Courts will intervene on one-sided landlord-biased precedent.
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Commercial property: exclusive occupation
The law on co-working rights is not always straightforward.
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Conveyancing: taxing obligations
Managing stamp taxes compliance has become a whole lot harder.
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Commercial property: partitioning
The merits of reviewing a licence to alter office premises have been brought into focus by a recent case.
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Commercial property: building work
Despite June’s Brexit vote, real estate lawyers are confident foreign investment will continue to be a lucrative source of work.
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Bankruptcy in conveyancing
What are the implications for advisers when the vendor goes bankrupt mid-way through the sale?
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Roundtable: residential conveyancing
Increased complexity, law reform, demanding clients and market volatility are all front of mind for residential conveyancing solicitors.
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Commercial property: end of leases
In the hurly-burly of negotiation the wider perspective can be overlooked
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Commercial property: overage clauses
What should commercial property lawyers look out for, to make sure their drafting does not end up before a judge?
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Arresting developments
Buyers discovering information about development after exchanging contracts.
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Roundtable: law and regeneration
The regeneration of Birmingham has turned around the fortunes of England’s second city as it seeks to position itself as a global player. What lessons does this hold for the lawyers involved?
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Commercial property: construction of conditional contracts
A recent judgment over the purchase of a Berkshire shopping centre adds some clarity to interpretation of conditional contracts.
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Construction law: weather warning
Last year’s floods triggered a myriad legal disputes and insurance claims. What have we learned?
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Commercial property: dilapidations liability
How the procedure should be followed when analysing wants of repair.
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Roundtable: commercial property
The global financial crisis hit real estate legal services hard, blighting careers and forcing down fees. But the sector is bouncing back.
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Commercial property: competition and use
What is the impact on lawyers of recent cases following changes to the 1998 Competition Act?