4/14/2025 8:38:52 AM Court of Appeal Rules on Boundary Demarcation Agreements By Zoe McLean-Wells Shannon Morrison The Court of Appeal has clarified the binding nature of boundary demarcation agreements on successors in title, irrespective of their...
4/8/2025 12:46:51 PM A landlord cannot be the subject of a Remediation Order where the Right to Manage has been exercised By Zoe McLean-Wells The First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) ('FTT') has dismissed an application for a Remediation Order ('RO') pursuant to s123 of the...
4/3/2025 3:22:25 PM Publication of new NHBC Housing Warranty Policies including changes in respect of insolvency cover By Triya Maicha Philip Evans Ben Halsey On 1 April 2025, the National Housebuilding Council (NHBC) published an updated version of its Buildmark and Buildmark Choice Housing...
3/31/2025 11:19:28 AM Spring Statement - 2025 By Ben Halsey The key announcements for the housing sector in the Chancellor's Spring Statement last week were as follows: 2bn grant...
3/26/2025 11:54:04 AM 5 key takeaways from Devonshires' Breakfast Briefing on the Commonhold White Paper By Jonathan Corris Mark Foxcroft Ben Halsey Earlier this week, we were pleased to hold a breakfast briefing on the Government’s Commonhold White Paper (CWP). The briefing...
3/25/2025 2:08:17 PM Treasury announces additional £2 Billion Investment in Affordable Housing By Ben Halsey Triya Maicha Jonathan Jarvis Another day, another ‘once in a generation’ announcement, but the latest significant boost to existing grant funding has, for the most...
3/25/2025 11:31:32 AM Upper Tribunal varies flat leases enabling a Right to Manage company to recover costs of service charge enforcement By Zoe McLean-Wells Mark Foxcroft Under Part IV of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 (the Act), a party to a long lease of a flat can apply to the First-Tier Tribunal...
3/5/2025 11:15:32 AM The Crime and Policing Bill- what does it mean for housing providers? By Victoria Smith The Crime and Policing bill (‘the Bill’) was introduced to House of Commons and had its first reading on 25 February 2025. The second...
2/26/2025 5:09:45 PM Government Responds to the Phase 2 Grenfell Inquiry Report By Mark London On 26 February 2025, in a Ministerial statement in the House of Commons, Angela Rayner commented on the Phase 2 report and noted that the...
2/25/2025 1:18:20 PM The one about the Moths, the Mansion, and Misrepresentation - Iva Patarkatsishvili & Yevhen Hunyak v William Woodward-Fisher [2025] EWHC 265 (Ch) By Ben Halsey Stavrina Tofallis Judgment has now been handed down by the High Court in the above case: Judiciary.uk Aside from representing a unique opportunity for...
2/12/2025 4:22:04 PM Breaking news - Top-up package announced for Affordable Housing funding programme(s) By Ben Halsey Additional funding has been announced in respect of the existing Affordable Homes Programme (AHP) - £300m for the delivery of up to 2,800...
2/7/2025 3:37:23 PM Awaab's Law - UPDATE By Victoria Smith A press release from the MHCLG has confirmed that from October, social landlords will be forced to investigate and fix dangerous damp and...