A detailed examination of the law and the valuation house lease enfranchisement and
lease extension claim follows, with detailed accounts of the different issues that have to be considered from which house leases qualify and what can sometimes be a difficult question of whether a particular building is a «house» or not.
The ruling endorses the decision of the Court of Appeal last year preventing landlords from claiming extra sums in the form of «hope value» in house claims and
lease extension claims.
Not exact matches
Singh also
claims that he bribed Mayor Bill de Blasio with campaign cash for favors that included a
lease extension on Water's Edge, but prosecutors last year declined to charge de Blasio, who has vehemently denied the bribery allegations.
She has acted for clients in landlord and tenant matters, boundary and easement disputes, disrepair and breach of covenant
claims, forfeiture actions, business tenancy and residential possession proceedings,
lease extension and enfranchisement proceedings as well as boundary and easement disputes.
The landlords
claimed the ability to increase rent to fair market value (rent increase dispute in excess of $ 1,000,000 per year for
lease extensions for the next ten years).
These were the decisions in the celebrated Sportelli litigation, probably the most important case on valuation and enfranchisement since 1967; another decision that establishes that a head
lease can be a qualifying
lease for flat
lease extension purposes; a decision on the scope of the landlord's right to resist
claims where the current
lease has less than five years to run and the landlord needs possession in order to redevelop and yet another decision on the correct approach to be taken in determining whether a building is a house or not.
It has even been possible, in one case, for the head lessee of a large mansion block in east London to
claim statutory
lease extensions on all 28 of the flats within the building — Maurice v Hollow - Ware Products Ltd [2005] 2 EGLR 71, [2005] EWHC 815 (Ch), [2005] All ER (D) 254 (Mar).
We have wide experience of advising landlords on collective enfranchisement
claims,
lease extensions, freehold acquisitions and rights of first refusal.