Housing
Owning a flat often means owning a long lease rather than the building
Where homes are held under long leases, the service charge is the mechanism through which the building is…
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Housing
Tenancies, deposits, repairs and the obligations running both ways.
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Housing
A tenancy guarantor is promising more than most of them realise
Guaranteeing a letting means accepting liability for someone else’s obligations, and the two questions that…
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Housing
Whether you are a tenant or a lodger is decided by the arrangement, not the label
Occupation rights turn on whether someone has exclusive possession of a space, and that single distinction…
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Housing
Owning a home with someone else is a structure, and the structure decides the exit
Co-ownership is not one arrangement but several, and which one applies determines what each owner holds…
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Housing
Planning permission is not a defence to damaging the house next door
Approval to build addresses the public interest in development, while the obligations owed to an adjoining…
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Housing
Disrepair and unfitness are two different complaints about the same house
One is a private obligation owed under the letting and enforced by the tenant; the other is a standard…
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Housing
Belongings left behind do not become the landlord’s property
Possessions remaining after an occupier leaves put the property owner in an awkward legal position, with…
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Housing
What a tenant builds into a home usually stays with the home
Alterations and improvements raise a question of ownership rather than of taste, and the answer generally…
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