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Share your views: Model lease for shared ownership
Law Society recommendations for 2021 Budget
Surcharge for non-UK residents buying homes
Law Society Connect: meet other members from small firms in property
Government announces home-ownership reforms
Legal services in national lockdown – 2021
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Commercial eviction ban extended until 31 March 2021
Engagement programme for 2020 to 2021
New requirements for verifying digital IDs in conveyancing
Lockdown: Law firm offices allowed to open and clients can visit
How to meet your clients’ needs with digital onboarding
Law Society responds to consultation on land control data
The Law Society's Library and Practice Advice Service offer support and advice on legal practice and procedure, including through compiling FAQs
PAS FAQ: Sale proceeds for mortgagees in possession
When acting for a mortgagee in possession, how should you deal with the proceeds of sale if there are other lenders involved with higher priority charges? Our Practice Advice Service explains.
Library FAQ: Overriding leases
The Law Society Library gives details of precedents for overriding leases granted in pursuance of section 19 of the Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995.
Latest Commentary
Service after death: solving a dilemma for property notices
Edward Francis looks at the Court of Appeal decision in Gateway Housing Association v Ali (deceased), which has brought welcome common sense to a common conundrum around serving property notices after the death of a landlord or tenant
A new lease of life: residential leasehold and commonhold reform
The Law Commission’s Professor Nick Hopkins, Oliver Hutchings and Penny Tridimas outline the commission’s proposals for reform of residential home ownership
Managing client expectations around the stamp duty holiday deadline
Friends with benefits? Identifying beneficial owners in complex structures
Rent concessions during the pandemic: considerations for commercial landlords
Rights of entry – or to a quiet life?
How’s it looking? Grounds for refusing planning consent
Good covenants make good neighbours – objecting to landlord consent for another flat’s alterations
