Apr 29, 2020 Going to term: Hospitality tenants request nine-month national time-out from the Treasury By Maples Teesdale Last week Chief Executives at Burger King UK, Pret A Manger, Nandos and other leading restaurant chains jointly signed a letter to...
Apr 27, 2020 Update on possession claims and COVID-19 By Tom Mills I previously provided an update (2 April 2020) that the new Practice Direction 51Z had the effect of staying all possession proceedings...
Apr 27, 2020 Covid-19 - the outlook for real estate finance By Maples Teesdale A BPF webinar this week discussed the outlook for the real estate finance market in the context of the current Covid-19 crisis. There was...
Apr 27, 2020 Vicarious liability, the Supreme Court & the everyday tale of country folk By Michael Craik As I sit in my sunny COVID-19 office reading the Supreme Court's judgments in two recent cases, I wondered how would they apply to the...
Apr 24, 2020 Government announces new measures to prevent "aggressive rent collection" By Robert Mullarkey Yesterday (23 April 2020) the government announced plans to protect business tenants from what it calls "aggressive rent collection". New...
Apr 22, 2020 Occupiers ready to start new norm By Adam Bernstein It is a common trait of the human mind to look to the future rather than live in the present and this is another report suggesting that...
Apr 22, 2020 Planning obligations: flexibility and imagination required By John Bosworth Experience from previous slow-downs has taught us that planning authorities need to be flexible if they want to help development to take...
Apr 22, 2020 Can the housing crisis help recovery after the corona crisis? By Clare Sivill Even in the middle of a global pandemic latent problems such as the housing crisis persist. But what if there is a way to use one crisis...
Apr 21, 2020 Rethinking the future of real estate By Maples Teesdale McKinsey have written a very insightful article highlighting the challenges facing the real estate industry in the current climate and...
Apr 20, 2020 Wellbeing in the workplace By Maples Teesdale As we begin our fifth week of isolation, many businesses have manged to iron out the initial IT problems and we are beginning to settle...
Apr 17, 2020 "The times they are a-changin" but not in adjudication - Millchris Developments v. Waters By Michael Craik "The times they are a-changin" sang Bob Dylan more than 50 years ago and they certainly are a-changin in response the COVID-19 'lock...
Apr 15, 2020 REF lenders and borrowers working together through lockdown By Maples Teesdale As we noted last week, in light of the pressures on the real estate sector caused by the Covid-19 outbreak, lenders will need to consider...