Leasehold Reform Act 1967
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PP 2008/09
The Leasehold Reform Act 1967 gives tenants the right to buy the freehold of their properties. This right exists only if the premises can be described as a “house”, but…
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Creditforce Ltd and another v Lay and others
Leasehold Reform Act 1967, Right to buy
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Neville v The Cowdray Trust Ltd and another
Leasehold enfranchisement — Long lease at low rent — Definition of “low rent” — Reference to rateable value — Covenant in lease requiring conversion from two cottages to single dwelling…
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Cadogan and another v Search Guarantees plc
Leasehold enfranchisement — Company “qualifying tenant” of flats — Whether possible for company also to be “tenant of house” — Whether company prevented from enfranchising by inability to satisfiy residence…
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Howard de Walden Estates Ltd v Malekshad
Defendant tenant serving notice of enfranchisement — Property consisting of house and adjoining mews — House of Lords ruling that house and mews separate for purposes of enfranchisement — Whether…
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PP 2003/74
Price payable for freehold – Valuation – Disregard of lessee’s improvements – Earlier lessees converting house into five flatlets – Later lessees adding value by undoing the conversion.
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Collins v Howard de Walden Estates Ltd
Acquisition of freehold — Meaning of “house” — Vertical division — Respondent wishing to acquire freehold of two mews units — Whether vertically divided property can constitute single house –…
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PP 2003/5
A problem of vertical separation. Q A lessee applies under the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 to buy the freehold of what he describes as a “town house”.
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PP 2003/6
One house or two?. Unless concerned with a problem of the kind considered in PP 2003/5 (overhangs and undercuttings), a practitioner will have to refer to Malekshad v Howard de…
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Haw v Peek
Acquisition of freehold interest — £820 to be paid for four-bedroomed semi-detached house in North London with unexpired term of 32 years — Custins case followed — Correct to include…
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Malekshad v Howard de Walden Estates Ltd
Claimant lessee of town house and mews dwelling seeking to acquire freehold — Lessee seeking to enfranchise one or both properties under Leasehold Reform Act 1967 — Mews dwelling partly…
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Skinns v Greenwood
Long tenancy — Right to acquire freehold — Exceptions — Appellant tenant seeking to acquire freehold of property — Lease determinable on tenant’s death on not less than one month’s…