- Advanced/Update/Intermediate *5 hours CPD
This course has been designed to equip solicitors with the necessary knowledge and skills to advise leaseholders, or a landlord, in relation to claims by examining all the steps that have to be taken in leasehold claims. All the relevant statutes are considered in detail along with the growing body of case law and decisions of the Residential Property Tribunal Service (RPTS) and the Lands Tribunal.
Case Studies are used throughout the course.
The course covers:
- Collective enfranchisement Claims
- Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (as amended)
- Do the flat leaseholders qualify for an enfranchisement claim?
- Drafting the participation agreement
- Appointment of the nominee purchaser
- Drafting the initial notices and obtaining a valuation
- The landlord's counternotice: issues to consider
- Cases where the landlord can reject the claim
- Is an application to the Court or the RPTS needed?
- Completion of the acquisition
- The transfer agreement
- Discharge of any mortgages on the freehold and the terms of any leasebacks to the landlord
- Drafting and granting new leases to the participating leaseholders
- Lease extension claims by flat leaseholders:
- Qualifying leases
- Drafting and serving notices and counter notices
- Terms of the new lease
- Valuation and costs issues
- References to the RPTS or the Court
- Other methods of acquiring the freehold to blocks of flats:
- Rights of first refusal under Part 1 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987
- Notices and procedures
- Obtaining the freehold
- Right to acquire under Part 111 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987
- Applications to the Court or the RPTS
- House lease enfranchisement and lease extension claims
- Leasehold Reform Act 1967
- Qualifying leases
- Qualifying buildings
- Notices and counter-notices
- Valuation principles and issues
- Lease extension claims
- Terms of the acquisition
- Applications to the Court or the RPTS