Real Estate Disputes
Intro
Our Real Estate Disputes team is able to help you to find the most suitable legal solution to your real estate property issues. Our team of dispute resolution lawyers have considerable experience providing legal advice for a wide range of property disputes. We understand the value and importance of real estate, and the complexity of disputes. We will work quickly to avoid litigation when possible, and suggest alternative dispute resolution procedures to reduce costs and protect your real estate investment.
Typical Work
- Tenant or Landlord Default
- Default Remedies against Tenants and Landlord
- Possession Actions
- Dilapidations & Building Disputes
- Tenant Insolvency
- Lease Renewals
- Lease Rent Reviews
- Interpretation of Leases
Recent Transactions
- Acting for a real estate factory owner who is being sued by 65 local residents making a claim in nuisance for alleged odours, noise and dust emanating from the client’s site. The claim is progressing under the umbrella of a group litigation order, of which only about 10 are made a year.
- Supporting a tenant charity which is defending a claim for possession to remove them from the property their organisation has occupied without a lease for over 20 years on the basis that they are protected tenants under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954.
- Advising tenants on a complex enfranchisement claim involving applications to buy the freehold and extend the leases of their flats.
- Acting for a real estate owner of a restaurant and hotel in a compensation claim against Crossrail.
