Category: Landlord and Tenant

Primeview Developments Ltd v Ahmed and Others: UTLC 7 Mar 2017

LANDLORD AND TENANT – service charges – administration charges – costs orders under rule 13, Property Chamber Rules 2013 and s.20C, Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 – appellant successful in majority of issues – whether appellant’s conduct unreasonable – whether just and equitable to make a section 20C order -whether appellant unreasonable to refuse mediation – appeal allowed in part

Citations:

[2017] UKUT 57 (LC)

Links:

Bailii

Statutes:

Landlord and Tenant Act 1985

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Landlord and Tenant

Updated: 24 March 2022; Ref: scu.582122

Chung and Another v Towey (Leasehold Enfranchisement – Costs): UTLC 18 Apr 2017

LEASEHOLD ENFRANCHISEMENT – costs – whether purchasing tenants liable to pay freeholder’s valuation fee incurred after application to FTT had been submitted – whether cost incurred in pursuance of tenant’s notice of claim – s.9(4)(e) Leasehold Reform Act 1967

Citations:

[2017] UKUT 157 (LC)

Links:

Bailii

Statutes:

Leasehold Reform Act 1967 9(4)(e)

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Landlord and Tenant, Costs

Updated: 24 March 2022; Ref: scu.582126

London Borough of Southwark v Akhtar Re: 11 and 54 John Kennedy House: UTLC 20 Apr 2017

LANDLORD AND TENANT – SERVICE CHARGES – s196 Law of Property Act 1925 – s 7 Interpretation Act 1978 – service of notices – waiver of invalidity of notices – s20B Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, contents of notices – appeal allowed.

Citations:

[2017] UKUT 150 (LC)

Links:

Bailii

Statutes:

Law of Property Act 1925 196, Interpretation Act 1978 7, Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 208

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Landlord and Tenant

Updated: 24 March 2022; Ref: scu.582128

Sloam and Another (Trustees of The JPT Pension Scheme), Re 395A and 397A, High Road: UTLC 4 May 2017

LEASEHOLD ENFRANCHISEMENT – costs – two adjoining flats held on similar terms – parties common to both flats – notices of claim deemed withdrawn – costs incurred by freeholder in connection with new leases – whether costs duplicated – s60(1) Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 – appeal allowed in part

Citations:

[2017] UKUT 186 (LC)

Links:

Bailii

Statutes:

Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 60(1)

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Landlord and Tenant

Updated: 24 March 2022; Ref: scu.582131

Firstport Property Services Ltd v Ahmet: UTLC 21 Feb 2017

LANDLORD AND TENANT – service charges – lessee’s obligation to pay proportion of estate costs by reference to formula – whether lessee’s proportion should be calculated by reference to 13 dwellings built on land sold to another developer as well as the 218 dwellings built on the retained land, both sites together constituting a single residential estate – whether the estate costs payable by the lessee should include the costs associated solely with the land sold as well as the retained land – appeal allowed in part – appeal against section 20C order made by FTT under the landlord and Tenant Act 1985 allowed

Citations:

[2017] UKUT 36 (LC)

Links:

Bailii

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Landlord and Tenant

Updated: 24 March 2022; Ref: scu.582115

Clifton v Liverpool City Council: UTLC 17 Feb 2017

LEASEHOLD ENFRANCHISEMENT – House – basis of valuation – alterations – appropriate day – change of identity – Leasehold Reform Act 1967, sections 1, 9 (1), 9 (1A) – Rent Act 1977, section 25

Citations:

[2017] UKUT 74 (LC)

Links:

Bailii

Statutes:

Rent Act 1977 25, Leasehold Reform Act 1967 1 9

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Landlord and Tenant

Updated: 24 March 2022; Ref: scu.582114

Bretby Hall Management Company Ltd v Pratt: UTLC 17 Feb 2017

LANDLORD AND TENANT – service charge – whether any evidence to justify finding that window cleaning for 2009 and 2010 and gardening for 2009 were subject to a QLTA – whether costs of defending separate threatened county court proceedings were recoverable under the lease – whether the Ft-T justified in rejecting claim – whether such costs within s 20C of the 1985 Act – Appeal allowed – Application for order under s20C in respect of costs of appeal refused.

Citations:

[2017] UKUT 70 (LC)

Links:

Bailii

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Landlord and Tenant

Updated: 24 March 2022; Ref: scu.582113