Subjects:

Property Law, Conveyancing

Contents:

The Client

1 An Introduction to Commercial Conveyancing and Property

2 Rent and Rent Review

3 Commercial Lease Covenants I

4 Commercial Lease Covenants II

5 Miscellaneous Lease Concerns: Enforceability of Lease Covenants, Insolvency and Disclaimer, Surrender and Merger

6 Remedies

7 The Landlord and Tenant Act 1954: Part II: Security of Tenure for Business Tenants and the Termination and Renewal of Business Leases

8 Property Development: Land Acquisition, Planning, Construction, and Finance

9 Selling and Buying Tenanted Properties

10 Revenue Law and Commercial Conveyancing

11 Your Practice

Appendix 1 - Commercial Property related websites

Appendix 2 - Authorized Guarantee Agreement Precedent

Appendix 3 - Law Society Standard Form Leases

Appendix 4 - Standard Commercial Property Conditions (2nd Edition)

Appendix 5 - 'Green Card' Warning on Property Fraud - Practice Information

Appendix 6 - Forms of Notice Under the Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995, s. 17

Appendix 7 - Landlord's Request for Release from Covenants

Appendix 8 - Tenant's Responses to landlord's Request for Release from Covenants

Appendix 9 - Notice for Binding Apportionment on Assignment of Part

Appendix 10 - Request for an Overriding lease by Former Tenant Pursuant to s. 19 of the Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995

Appendix 11 - Precedent for an Overriding Lease Grabted Pursuant to s. 19 of the Landlord and Tenants (Covenants) Act 1995

Appendix 12 - Specimen Noticeas under The Law of Property Act 1925

Appendix 13 - Notices under The Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, s. 40

Appendix 14 - Landlord's Notices under The Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, s. 25

Appendix 15 - Tenant's Request under The Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, s. 26

Appendix 16 - Environmental Enquiries of Seller's Solicitors

Appendix 17 - A Code of Practice for Commercial Leases in England and Wales (2nd Edition)

Appendix 18 - British Property Federation Commercial Property Standards Enquiries

Appendix 19 - British Property Federation Commercial Property Standards Enquiries Guidance Notes

Now in its third edition, this successful text serves as an accessible guide through the complex and diverse area of commercial conveyancing and property. Practical solutions are given to many of the more commonplace difficulties encountered, together with helpful diagrams explaining some of the intricacies involved. Checklists are provided as models of procedure, and easily-followed precedent clauses and forms are supplied.

This edition has been updated both to reflect the recently improved layout and style of the A Practical Approach Series, and provide comprehensive coverage of all the legislative changes to commercial property law since the publication of the last edition in June 2003. Significant changes include:-

• the June 2004 reforms to the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 Part II;
• the April 2005 amendment of the 1987 Use Classes Order;
• the bringing into force of the Enterprise Act 2002 in September 2003;
• the 2004 changes to the Standard Commercial Property Conditions;
• the replacement of Stamp Duty with Stamp Duty Land Tax in December 2003.