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Real Insight - Issue 1 2025

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INTRODUCTION - Welcome to the first edition of Real Insight, our new UK real estate update. Among the subjects covered in this edition are the emerging success of data centres in the planning system, continuation funds,...more

Mayer Brown

A Bolt From the Blue: Upwards - Only Rent Reviews to Be Outlawed

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INTRODUCTION - Just as we were winding down for the summer, the commercial property industry was shocked by the announcement that the government has unexpectedly decided to seek to ban upwards only rent reviews (“UORR”)....more

Jones Day

Shock and Law: UK Government's Surprise Proposal to Ban Upward-Only Rent Reviews

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For years, upward-only rent reviews have been a cornerstone of the UK commercial property market, offering landlords and investors a reassuring degree of income security and predictability....more

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Unpicking the Government’s Bill to Ban Upwards Only Rent Reviews

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The Government (through Deputy PM Angela Rayner) introduced the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill into the Commons on 10 July. Amongst other matters the Bill seeks to reignite a Labour policy last seen at the...more

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UK Real Estate: An end to upwards-only rent reviews?

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On 10 July 2025, the UK Government published its “English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill”, saying it aimed to let local people “take the reins in driving growth”. But tucked away in a 338 page Bill dealing...more

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Briefcase 2025 Quarter 2: Key Real Estate Cases and Updates

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Case 1: Brown v Ridley and Another - The Supreme Court has clarified that a reasonable belief of ownership for any 10 year period is sufficient to claim adverse possession....more

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Briefcase 2023 Quarter 4: Key Real Estate Cases and Updates

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High Court Weighs Up Landlord’s Redevelopment Plans With Tenant’s Security of Tenure in Business Lease Renewal - A landlord sought an immediately exercisable break in an unopposed business lease renewal to facilitate a...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

It’s a RPI Off!

Inflation in the United Kingdom is measured using various indices by reflecting the period-to-period proportional change in the prices of a fixed set of consumer goods and services of constant quantity and characteristics,...more

K&L Gates LLP

Global Office Asset Trends: A Look at 2023 and Beyond

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Post-pandemic, with some level of remote work here to stay, the global real estate industry is tracking an unprecedented reassessment of the office asset class. To paraphrase Mark Twain, have the rumors of the “death of the...more

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Noisy works: a useful reminder for landlords

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When a landlord is carrying out works it is usually impossible to avoid some level of disturbance to tenants.  On that basis, previous case law has made clear that a landlord carrying out works will need to take “all...more

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Telecoms operators do not have a choice between the Code and the 1954 Act on renewal of rights

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The Upper Tribunal has considered for the first time the relationship between the new Electronic Communications Code and the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, ruling that an operator in occupation under a lease protected by the...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Brexit Frustration—High Court Rules on Important Landlord and Tenant and Commercial Case

The High Court in London has recently given judgment in one of the first UK cases to grapple with the commercial ramifications of the UK's departure from the European Union....more

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New Lease Code for Old

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The professional statement, “Code for leasing business premises”, published by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) incorporates the proposal for a new lease code. The consultation period in relation to this...more

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Waiving not an option in offer-back case

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Offer-back clauses in leases are sometimes used to give the landlord greater control over the identity of the tenant at a property. However, the mechanism of operating an offer-back clause can be problematic as demonstrated...more

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