by Gemma Hawthorne | May 5, 2022 | Blog
What is ESG? Environmental, social and governance (ESG) credentials are quickly becoming an additional set of standards used in order to vet potential investments. These credentials have been previously acknowledged as ‘social responsibility’ and are now making a...
by Gemma Hawthorne | Mar 28, 2022 | Blog
‘No fault’ divorce legislation to come into force on 6 April 2022 The outdated and very often contentious Divorce law in England and Wales is due to have a much-needed overhaul, with new changes coming into force on 6 April 2022. The biggest change being the removal...
by Gemma Hawthorne | Mar 21, 2022 | Blog
The current leasehold system has been criticised for being overly complex and causing hardship to leaseholders. It has, for example, been described as a shadow feudal system and a money-making scheme by various news platforms. In February 2017, the Department for...
by Gemma Hawthorne | Mar 14, 2022 | Blog
What is a Licence to Assign? Some leases, but by no means all, contain a provision that require an outgoing tenant (the Assignor) to obtain their landlord’s/freeholder’s consent to them selling their lease. This Licence to Assign is the consent document to assign the...
by Gemma Hawthorne | Mar 7, 2022 | Blog
Since the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) bill was formally introduced in the House of Lords on 12 May 2021, our industry has been waiting for it to be enacted. The Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act 2022 (the Act) finally received Royal Assent on 8 February 2022. What...
by Sam Yuen | Feb 11, 2022 | Blog, Residential Real Estate
Money Laundering Regulations are essential to every real-estate transaction and compliance with them is a part that solicitors and conveyancers will sometimes spend a lot of time on, as early as the very start of a purchase. For clients resident in the EU or UK, these...
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