‘Property ManagerFILE’
Monday, December 10th, 2012
Brethertons is delighted to announce details of its annual IRPM Workshop Weekend. The weekend will be held at the Conference Park at Warwick Business School on the site of Warwick University on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th March 2013.
Next year’s Workshop is set to be the biggest yet! This time ...
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Monday, December 10th, 2012
Brethertons is delighted to announce that the firm’s Property Management debt recovery team has been Highly Commended the prestigious News on the Block Property Management Awards in the hotly contested Legal Services of the Year Award.
Brethertons was pitted against industry heavy-weights face2face Solicitors, Housing and Law Partnership, SLC Solicitors, J.B. ...
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Monday, December 10th, 2012
Gareth Raisbeck is a qualified barrister, solicitor and member of the Brethertons’ Litigation Alliance Department and Property Alliance team. He works on complex and defended cases with Head of Department, Dean. Gareth deals with a wide variety of Small Claims and Fast Track litigation matters including defended property litigation, commercial ...
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Monday, December 10th, 2012
A "qualifying long term agreement" is defined by s.20ZA(2) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 as "an agreement entered into, by or on behalf of a landlord or superior landlord, for a term of more than twelve months".
That this deceptively simple definition has been the cause of some ...
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Monday, December 10th, 2012
The Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 introduced a collective right for leasehold flat owners to acquire the right to manage the building in which their flats are contained. The right is exercised by a RTM company, which is incorporated by the participating leaseholders specifically for that purpose.
In contrast to ...
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Monday, December 10th, 2012
When the developer of a block of flats (who owned the freehold) decided to relocate the parking spaces allocated to the tenants so that it could build another block of flats on the car park, the tenants took a dim view of the proposal – especially when contractors arrived without ...
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Monday, July 16th, 2012
Brethertons solicitors is already seeing results after employing industry specialist Dean Spencer as Head of the newly created Litigation Alliance team, which includes the successful fixed price Small Claims Alliance service.
Dean is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives and has over 35 years experience in civil litigation. ...
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Monday, July 16th, 2012
The research period for the Brethertons 2012 ‘State of the Property Management Nation’ Annual Survey is about to commence in July/August. The survey was launched for the first time in 2011 and 31 UK property management companies took part.
Following the huge interest shown in the 2011 survey results, many ...
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Monday, July 16th, 2012
On 8th May 2012, the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) gave a determination which many will have considered mundane or trivial at first. However, this decision has caught a surprising number of managing agents off guard.
Section 47 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 provides that “where any written demand is ...
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Monday, July 16th, 2012
“The landlord seeks to recover money from the tenant. On ordinary principles there must be clear terms in the contractual provisions said to entitle him to do so.” (Laws L.J. in Gilje v Charlgrove Securities [2001])
If there is any ambiguity in a lease, it will be construed against the landlord. ...
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