Commercial property
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Property tax - Capital allowances update - Commercial property
09 September 2010
Kevin Smith provides an update on the changes introduced to capital allowances in the emergency budget and also highlights some of the lesser-known capital allowances opportunities to look...
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Public sector asset management - Getting more for less - Commercial property
03 September 2010
Peter Jones discusses Birmingham Council's public sector asset management programmes and initiatives, how they work and the main benefits to the council in such testing times. One of the...
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RICS: Global Distressed Property Monitor 2010 - Commercial property
09 August 2010
The February 2010 Global Distressed Property Monitor from RICS shows distressed properties coming to market continuing to rise globally although at a generally slower pace than that reported...
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RICS: Commercial Market Survey 2010 - Commercial property
30 July 2010
Lettings activity for business property continued to pick up in Q1, albeit at a marginally slower rate than was evident in Q4. Surveyors reported that occupier enquiries rose...
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RICS: Global Commercial Property Survey 2010 - Commercial property
30 July 2010
Q1 provided further evidence that the recovery in real estate markets around the world continued to gain traction. The number of investment transactions rose compared with the fourth...
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RICS: UK Economy & Property Market Chart Book - 2010 - Commercial property
30 July 2010
A monthly analysis by RICS Economics of the United Kingdom economy and the current property market.
- Capital allowances
- Commercial EPCs
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Dilapidations
- Dilapidations in commercial property
- Preliminary issues
- Key issues
- Landlords' remedies
- Tenants' remedies
- Physical work v damages
- Negotiations and disputes
- Section 18(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1927
- Leasehold Property (Repairs) Act 1938
- Dilapidations legislation
- Key cases
- Further information on commercial property dilapidations
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Disability discrimination
- Tenants' duties
- Duties of service providers
- Employers' duties
- Principals' duties
- Premises providers' and property managers' duties
- Consentors' duties
- Duties of trade organisations and qualifications bodies
- Additional duties
- Landlords' duties
- The Equality and Human Rights Commission
- Other issues
- Current issues
- Frequently asked questions
- Glossary
- Statutes
- Regulations
- Key disability discrimination cases
- Health and safety
- Insolvency
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Lease renewal
- Preliminary issues
- Protection under the 1954 Act
- Landlord terminating - Section 25 notice
- Tenant's response to a Section 25 notice
- Tenant's request for a new tenancy
- Landlord's response to a Section 26 notice
- Tenant quitting
- Landlord opposing renewal
- Terms of a new lease
- Dispute resolution
- Rent
- Negotiation
- Excluding the Act
- Reform of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954
- Statutes
- Case summaries
- Further information on lease renewal
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Lease renewal disputes
- Lease renewal disputes
- Key points
- Termination of a tenancy by a landlord
- Tenant's request for new tenancy
- Court procedure
- Landlord's grounds of opposition to renewal
- Compensation
- A new lease
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Costs
- RICS and other guidance
- Current statutes
- Reforms to the 1954 Act
- Key cases
- Key legal issues
- Forms and further information on lease renewal disputes
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Leases
- Preliminary issues
- Extent of demise
- Lease or licence
- Agreement for lease
- Covenants
- Covenants and the 1995 Act
- Length of term
- Principal covenants in a lease
- Conditions in a lease
- Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (Part II)
- Current issues
- Land registration
- Stamp Duty Land Tax
- Statutes
- Key cases
- Further information on leases
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Property insurance
- Leases
- Insurers' requirements to underwrite property risks
- Management agreements and contractors' contracts
- Liability and indemnity limits
- Insurance principles
- Claims
- Commercial lease code
- Issues for a landlord if the tenant insures
- Contractors' cover
- Valuations
- Financial Services Authority
- Commonly checked policy clauses
- General technical points
- Policy covers
- Legal contingencies
- Glossary
- Insurance case law
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Rent review
- Preliminary issues
- Procedures for initiating the rent review
- Procedures - dates relevant to rent assessment
- The machinery of review
- Rent assessment assumptions
- Rent assessment disregards
- Negotiation
- Dispute resolution
- Current issues
- Rent review legislation
- Cases
- Letters, notices and checklists
- Further information on rent review
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Rent review disputes
- Rent review disputes
- Rent review clauses
- Disability discrimination issues
- Procedure and practical actions in a typical rent review
- Appointment of a third party
- Costs, Calderbank offers and interest
- Challenges
- Surveyors acting as expert witnesses
- Disputes involving points of law
- Frequently asked questions
- Rent review disputes legislation
- Key cases
- Key legal issues
- Further information on rent review disputes
- Residential and commercial service charges disputes
- RICS Code of Measuring Practice
- Service charges
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Stamp duty land tax
- Definitions of stamp duty land tax terms
- What is stamp duty land tax?
- Chargeable considerations for stamp duty land tax
- Types of land transaction
- Notifying land transactions
- Trusts and stamp duty land tax
- Partnerships and stamp duty land tax
- Stamp duty land tax on leases
- Reliefs for stamp duty land tax
- Anti-avoidance measures for stamp duty land tax
- Enforcement of stamp duty land tax
- Further information on stamp duty land tax