Category: Tenancy Law

Residential, Tenancy Law

Is 2024 The year You’d Like More Help With Letting And Managing Your Residential Property?

Happy new year! In the residential lettings market, supply remains low, demand continues to be robust and rental values are predicted to grow in the coming years. However, being a landlord doesn’t come without its challenges and landlords face a changing landscape of increased responsibilities. As a landlord, you must ensure the safety of your tenants and there are various compliance procedures that must be … Continue reading Is 2024 The year You’d Like More Help With Letting And Managing Your Residential Property?

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Tenancy Law, Updates, Wayleaves & Easements

Wayleaves: Informal Tenancy Muddles Claim for Damage

The recent case Kirby v Electricity North West Ltd (2023) EWHC 75 (TCC) has highlighted the significance of documenting tenancy arrangements, as well as alerting utility companies of the importance of ensuring their contractors understand the extent of any agreed wayleaves before entering land to undertake work. The Case Electricity North West’s (the defendant) contractors entered a field to replace an underground cable in accordance … Continue reading Wayleaves: Informal Tenancy Muddles Claim for Damage

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Tenancy Law, Updates

Proposed Changes To Residential Lettings

As part of the Government’s Levelling Up Agenda, they have published a subsidiary White Paper – A Fairer Private Rented Sector. It underlines their commitment, through the Renters Reform Bill, to ensure all private landlords adhere to a legally binding standard on decency. The Bill also fulfils their manifesto commitment to replace Section 21 ‘no fault’ eviction notices with a new tenancy system. These changes will … Continue reading Proposed Changes To Residential Lettings

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Agriculture, Business, Farming, Tenancy Law, Updates

How alternative rent review methods could make rents more sustainable

You may have seen my comments recently in Farmers Weekly regarding alternative rent review mechanisms in Farm Business Tenancies (FBTs) and how they might work with the reduction in Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) as a tool for sustainable rents. If you haven’t, you can click here to read the article. Some more information on this topic below… Rent levels We are still seeing people bidding … Continue reading How alternative rent review methods could make rents more sustainable

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Agriculture Act 2020, Agriculture Bill, Business, Tenancy Law

The Agricultural Holdings (Requests for Landlord’s Consent or Variation of Terms and the Suitability Test) (England) Regulations 2021

The Regulations have now been laid before Parliament. This is further legislation that builds on the initial proposals in the Agriculture Act 2020. This article refers to the changes the legislation will make to tenancies under the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986. The information below is relevant to England only. Detailed procedures for a tenant’s ability to challenge a landlord’s refusal of consent  or to a … Continue reading The Agricultural Holdings (Requests for Landlord’s Consent or Variation of Terms and the Suitability Test) (England) Regulations 2021

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Agriculture, Agriculture Act 2020, Agriculture Bill, Tenancy Law

What does the Agriculture Act 2020 mean for agricultural tenancies?

What does the Agriculture Act 2020 mean for agricultural tenancies? The long awaited Agriculture Act 2020 has recently become law. There are various areas of agriculture that the Act covers, but what does it mean for agricultural tenancies? Whilst we have to wait for further regulations to give more detail, a summary of some of the changes affecting tenancies are as follows. Arbitration and third … Continue reading What does the Agriculture Act 2020 mean for agricultural tenancies?

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Agriculture, Farming, Rent and Rent Review, Tenancy Law

Autumn Rent Reviews

Please note that the information below is very general- each tenancy agreement is unique and the details below may or may not be relevant to your agreement – please always seek specialist advice regarding tenancy agreements It’s been a very tricky year in farming for many this year, the weather hasn’t really been on our side for the whole of the cropping year. Hopefully, for … Continue reading Autumn Rent Reviews

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Agriculture, Farming, Farmland Market, Tenancy Law

Corona Virus and your Farming Business

Well, I wish it was a more cheery post, but here we are…  Undoubtedly this will affect almost everyone, if not for personal reasons, financially.  I have seen quite a few posts online and various companies letting people know how they are professionally working through this period, so I thought I would give you a brief round up of a few areas that I think … Continue reading Corona Virus and your Farming Business

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Farming, Tenancy Law

LETTING FARM BUILDINGS – DO YOU NEED AN EPC?

I wrote about the changes to EPCs and what you now can and can’t let. If you missed that, you can read that here. This post is about whether or not you need an EPC if you have let your farm buildings. It was written for the Berrys Farm Business Bulletin, which you can read in full by clicking here. Buildings that are let and … Continue reading LETTING FARM BUILDINGS – DO YOU NEED AN EPC?

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Tenancy Law

Update on Minimum EPC Ratings on Residential & Commercial Lettings

Another update and this one is about let residential and commercial properties. I will also be uploading a new post in due course about when you may need an EPC in a commercial let. Some people are letting commercial buildings (including agricultural buildings for commercial uses, storage etc) without having an EPC. But I will give you more info on that in a different post. … Continue reading Update on Minimum EPC Ratings on Residential & Commercial Lettings

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