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As one of Europe’s largest city centre redevelopment sites, the proposed regeneration of the South Bank area will be the biggest change Leeds has seen since Leeds Bradford International airport opened in 1931...

Howard Bernstein (Former CEO Manchester City Council) said, on stepping down from the role he has held for nearly 20 years, that he will remember Mancunians as “Proud, passionate, edgy, and want to do the best for themselves and for the city”...

Well 2016 was a funny old year wasn’t it? There’s the obvious headline grabbers of the Brexit referendum result, as well as the election of Donald Trump as the next US President. The effect of the referendum was felt within the UK real estate investment market...

There is inevitably a period of time between the date a land transfer is completed and the completion of registration at the Land Registry, otherwise known as the ‘registration gap’...

Commercial landlords and tenants beware: obligations to build may bite before the longstop date for performance under the contract arrives...

Disappointing news for landlords of mixed use properties. In Jewelcraft Ltd v Pressland [2015] EWCA Civ 1111 the Court of Appeal ruled on an enfranchisement claim relating to a mixed use building and found in the tenant's favour...

The number of burials that take place in the UK on privately owned land is relatively small. Indeed many people are surprised to learn that it is possible to arrange a burial on your own land, rather than in a churchyard or cemetery...

A restriction on underletting is not unusual in leases. The most common way of doing this is by an express covenant prohibiting underletting or by requiring the landlord’s prior consent to a proposed underletting...

If a landlord owns a building and parts are rented out, the landlord should by wary of assuming an unchallengeable right to develop the remainder without taking into account the concerns of existing tenants...

It may be time to get back to the classroom: property lawyers should be alert to peculiarities when dealing with property formerly owned by schools, institutions promoting science, the arts and literature or used as a place of worship...

The Government recently issued their long-term property compensation and assistance schemes, which will apply to Phase 2a of High Speed Two (HS2) (from the West Midlands to Crewe)...

Should the parties to a lease be concerned about an implied surrender and re-grant of the lease if they are negotiating a deed of variation to grant new easements...