Residential Property

Although it has been widely reported that recent changes to the law make squatting in residential premises a criminal offence for the first time, this is not strictly true. Refusing...

A property owner whose Victorian townhouse was severely affected by subsidence has failed to convince the Court of Appeal that the local authority and a housing association (the respondents) should...

When the owners of houses that were built on piles discovered that the walls of their properties were cracking, they established that the reason for the problem was that the...

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...

It is common for rights of way over property to be reserved if the seller retains other land in the vicinity of the sold land to which he wishes to...

The Supreme Court has ruled that a daughter cannot succeed to a tenancy after the death of her mother because the right of succession belongs to her estranged father. ...

When two young men who were friends and sometime business associates decided to buy a flat together in 1997, they arranged it so that the property was registered in the...

Property can be owned in joint names as joint tenants, which means that each co-owner owns an undivided share in the whole property (and would therefore be the sole owner...

In 2009, the Government and the Association of British Insurers entered into an agreement, the Statement of Principles on the Provision of Flood Insurance, which committed home insurance providers to...

When a landowner erected a fence and a wall that impinged on a right of way and made it impossible for a farmer to get his hay baler into a...