property litigation solicitors

Acting for both landlord and tenant portfolios, our specialist team has decades of experience in dealing with opposed and unopposed lease renewals across a multitude of sectors.

Our team can approach renewals from a strategic perspective to allow you to maximise the process within your portfolio or reactively in response to any statutory notice served/ to be served or at lease expiry.

From strategic advice as to how and when to initiate a lease renewal, to service of statutory notices, to progressing a lease renewal claim in the Court, our team can support and advise on all aspects in a cost-effective and efficient way to get the best possible outcome for you.

Our team is able to advise on the most effective way to recover arrears whether from current or former tenants and their guarantors.

Over the years our specialist team has recovered £millions in unpaid rents from defaulting parties.

Our team regularly acts in possession matters against defaulting tenants and following lease expiry.

Our team can advise on the process and the service of statutory notices as a precursor to regaining possession.

The team also advises regarding applications for relief from forfeiture, and actions to be taken following the recovery of possession to include any further notices that need to be served.

Our team has established links with High Court Enforcement Officers across the country to allow for time-effective enforcement of the possession order.

The team acts for both landlords and tenants in relation to possession actions.

Break notices require significant attention to detail in terms of the form of the notice and the method and timing of service of the notice.

It is vital that all conditions applicable to the exercise of the break are observed; it is invariably the conditions that cause the biggest legal issues.

Given that breaks are often fixed mid-way through the lease term, it is key to ensure that the break is exercised in accordance with the lease; failure to do so will result in the continuation of the lease.

Our team can advise you on your break options, the exercise of the same and attend to service of the notice in accordance with the lease.

Our team has experience in managing break programmes for tenant portfolios across a range of sectors, ensuring that all break dates are noted and the breaks correctly exercised. We can assist the management of your portfolio by taking this aspect of estate management on board for you.

Given the wealth of experience that the team has in acting for tenant portfolios, our team is best placed to advise landlords as to the validity of break notices served upon them.

The team advises both landlords and tenants as to their obligations regarding repair both during the term and upon lease termination.

It is vital for all parties to manage their properties in accordance with the lease during the term so as to mitigate the impact of any disrepair at the end of the lease term.

The team is experienced in dealing with notices of disrepair, specific performance of repairing covenants and dilapidations – both interim and terminal.

Given the experience of working within a significant number of property portfolios the team has a wealth of experience in dealing with squatter evictions, nationwide.

Ranging from bare land to high-value commercial properties our team can proactively and efficiently deal with obtaining possession of your property as quickly as possible. The team will issue proceedings quickly and seek to obtain the required possession order as fast as the process permits.

Our team has established links with High Court Enforcement Officers, nationwide, to allow for rapid enforcement of the possession order once obtained.

As with break options it is imperative that options are exercised in accordance with the prevailing agreement.

A failure to observe the terms of the agreement will result in the loss of the option, which are usually once and for all.

The team also advises in relation to overage agreements, to include the engagement of trigger events.

The team is experienced in dealing with disputes relating to restrictive covenants over land and advise as to the resolution of the same to include applications to discharge or modify the covenant.

Issues as to easements over both freehold and leasehold land are frequently dealt with by the team.

From providing strategic advice to avoid the acquisition of an easement without an express grant (rights of way are most commonly acquired) to advice in response to an issue surrounding an easement, our team is well placed to advise you. The team has extensive experience in managing significant land and property portfolios and dealing with easements and the issues that arise.

The team deals with applications for adverse possession of both registered and unregistered land. From dealing with the required notice to progressing the matter through the tribunal.

The team not only deals with applications for adverse possession but also advises land and property owners as to the management of their portfolios to avoid adverse possession claims being made.

From dealing with boundaries between large commercial properties to those between residential properties, our team has a vast experience in dealing with boundary disputes.

Boundary disputes are:

1. time consuming;

2. cost-heavy

3. very emotive

Our team will work with you to avoid the escalation of the dispute, seek to contain the same (where possible) and, if the dispute cannot be resolved, look to efficiently and effectively manage the same.

Proactively the team can advise you on avoiding boundary disputes where there are known issues with a boundary that have yet to materialise into a dispute.

The team has significant experience in dealing with both operators and site providers in relation to the Electronic Communications Code (‘the Code’) and the renewal of telecoms leases under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954.

The team advises operators and site providers in relation to Code notices and tribunal referrals under the Code.

The team is experienced in advising upon and initiating infrastructure roll-out programmes, to include the use of TILPA in connection with Multiple Dwelling Units (MDUs).