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01-12-2022 / Real Estate

We are delighted to announce that Greg Smith and Ross Cameron have joined our team in Scotland.

23-11-2022 / Insurance, Maritime, Real Estate

We are pleased to be celebrating one year since opening our first Scottish office in the city of Glasgow.  Stefanie Johnston, dual-qualified Partner and Head of Scotland, has worked tirelessly over the last year to develop our offering through the opening of an Ince office in what is arguably an established Scottish market. Starting from the ground up, Stefanie and her team have successfully gained an admirable reputation in the region and further afield in the maritime, insurance, real estate and regulatory sectors. 

21-11-2022 / Real Estate

Experienced new partner will help Ince Cardiff to expand its innovative commercial property offering, including leisure and retail, in South Wales and nationally.

05-08-2022 / Real Estate

Martlet Homes v. Mullaley and Co Ltd [2022] EWHC 1813 The Court has awarded a property owner damages for the defective design and installation of cladding. This is the first time the High Court has dealt with a dispute concerning cladding on a high rise building since the Grenfell Tower disaster.

02-08-2022 / Private Wealth, Real Estate

In a recent High Court case, Procter v Procter and others [2022] EWHC 1202, the dispute related to a periodic tenancy a landlord had with three sibling tenants, where one sibling retired from the partnership.

18-07-2022 / Real Estate

Ince is pleased to announce the appointment of Tim Foley, David Sutherland, and Sanna Mir to our London-based property team.

25-05-2022 / Maritime, Real Estate

02-02-2022 / Real Estate

Lord Aberdare’s Construction (Retentions Abolition) Bill 2021-22 (‘the Bill’) is the latest of a long string of attempts to drive legislative changes surrounding cash retention in the construction industry.

13-01-2022 / Real Estate

On 17 December 2021, The New Homes Quality Board (NHQB) published its New Homes Quality Code. The Code aims to improve the quality of new-build homes and strengthen protection for buyers, spanning from initial sales steps to two years following a purchase.

21-12-2021 / Real Estate

The pandemic has forced many businesses to adapt. Arguably, one of the biggest changes was the mass move of staff from predominantly office-based working, to working from home and the encouragement of agile/flexible working.

02-12-2021 / Real Estate

This case concerns the thorny subject of what constitutes valid exercise of a conditional break clause by a tenant.

26-05-2021 / Real Estate

Our Real Estate team recently advised local authority trading company, TBG Open Door Limited (part of The Barnet Group), on the acquisition of 155 properties in a deal worth £38 million.

08-04-2021 / Real Estate

Over the last twelve months, the United Kingdom (UK) like the rest of the world, has seen the COVID -19 pandemic impact hugely on our ability to travel freely, to relocate for business, work, investment and education. We now see some light at the end of the tunnel with the UK’s mass immunisation programme which has seen infection (and thankfully) mortality levels fall dramatically. This is finally giving people hope for the future, resulting in renewed interest in the UK as a safe place to live, to invest in, and as somewhere to educate their children.

26-03-2021 / Real Estate

The Fifth Money Laundering Directive came into force in January 2020, extending the UK Money Laundering Regulations and implementation of regulatory controls to include real estate firms, real estate brokers, estate agents and rental intermediaries.

15-03-2021 / Real Estate

New digital client onboarding solution delivered in collaboration with leading technology providers eLegal, Yoti and Arachnys.

03-09-2020 / Real Estate

Property development often involves uncertain outcomes, and the pandemic has highlighted that circumstances can change in unexpected ways.

21-08-2020 / Real Estate

Shops may not be able to accommodate the government’s guidance on working safely during the pandemic in practical terms.

24-07-2020 / Real Estate

Boris Johnson recently announced that he would introduce the most radical planning changes since the Second World War. The government followed that announcement with the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2020 (T&CPUA) which creates new use classes in relation to England which comes into effect on 1 September 2020.

22-07-2020 / Real Estate

As the conditions of the property market continue to change and evolve, both landlords and tenants are having to consider the best way to exit or surrender a commercial lease.

20-07-2020 / Real Estate

On 29 March 2018, the Treasury Committee launched an inquiry into Economic Crime including the examination of two areas where a risk of money laundering had been identified — property and company formation.

17-07-2020 / Real Estate

It is impossible to exaggerate the significance of landlord and tenant law in Singapore. The steady accretion of land to ultimate Government ownership since the passing of the Land Acquisition Act in 1966 has inevitably reduced the amount of land held in fee simple.

16-07-2020 / Real Estate

It was announced this week that the tax-free threshold for Land Transaction Tax (“LTT”) will increase from £180,000 to £250,000 for house purchases in Wales from 27 July 2020 until 31 March 2021.

08-07-2020 / Real Estate

The Government has announced a nine-month holiday for stamp duty land tax as part of their bounce back strategy following the Covid-19 pandemic.

07-07-2020 / Real Estate

As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, most property auctions are understandably being hosted online. Online auctions have been the trend for a while, and it is possible to inspect remotely and bid totally online. Buyers are potentially more willing to accept the limitations inherent from this auction method during Covid-19 restrictions.

14-05-2020 / Real Estate

The very recent Supreme Court case of Duval v 11-13 Randolph Crescent Ltd [2020] UKSC 18, provides a stark reminder to landlords and tenants to carefully review the terms of the lease when a request for consent to make alterations is made by a tenant.

13-05-2020 / Real Estate

The Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard (‘MEES’) came into force early 2018, and applies to domestic private rented property. They are designed to encourage landlords and property owners to improve energy efficiency standards and set a minimum to those standards.

01-05-2020 / Real Estate

Prior to Covid-19, the high street was already going through a fairly tough time and so the arrival of the global pandemic is nothing short of catastrophic. Commercial tenants are understandably seeking ways in which to survive these times; which inevitably leads to discussions with landlords in respect of the rents payable under the lease. We consider some of the common questions asked by clients in this respect.

31-03-2020 / Real Estate

The Coronavirus Act 2020 (the Act) received royal assent on 25 March 2020 and is now law. This new legislation followed the government’s earlier press release which confirmed that “Commercial tenants who cannot pay their rent because of the coronavirus will be protected from eviction” [our emphasis].

24-12-2019 / Real Estate

In June 2019, David Quinn, a Managing Associate in our Property Litigation team, acted for the successful Claimants in the High Court case of Abberley and others v Abberley (2019) EWHC 1564 (Ch).

09-07-2019 / Real Estate

Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing (‘AML’) regulations have increased compliance costs and regulatory scrutiny in the past four years with no less than three European Directives published since 2015. The scopes of the first regulations were originally focused on financial services but were extended to other sectors including the real estate industry. Penalties have already been imposed on a number of agents. How can estate agents mitigate their regulatory risk? This note explores the regulatory landscape in the Real Estate industry, then uses the lessons learnt for the financial services industry to explore the possibility to implement a real estate solution.

10-05-2019 / Real Estate

On Tuesday 30th April, Ince Gordon Dadds LLP were delighted to welcome 70 guests to a ‘Beds over Sheds/ breakfast seminar at our Aldgate Tower office.

08-05-2019 / Real Estate

Having worked with many property developers, we have found that many are unaware of the various Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) exemptions and reliefs available to them. This has resulted in an overpayment of tax. 

18-03-2019 / Real Estate

This article compares sale and leasebacks and debt financing from the perspective of a corporate occupier seeking to raise capital from their real estate assetsnbsp

18-03-2019 / Real Estate

This article compares sale and leasebacks and debt financing from the perspective of a corporate occupier seeking to raise capital from their real estate assets.

30-01-2019 / Real Estate

We will explore in this article the different ways of recovering rent arrears from residential tenants.

09-07-2018 / Real Estate

Where UK real estate is owned by a company and that company wishes to dispose of it, buyers can, in certain circumstances, choose between acquiring 100 of the shares in the company from its shareholders or buying the property outright from the company One of the main advantages of structuring a real estate transaction so that a buyer acquires the shares in the company is that the buyer can realise significant tax savings

24-04-2018 / Real Estate

In April 2017, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy launched a call for evidence seeking views on proposals to introduce a new register showing who owns and controls overseas companies and other legal entities that own UK property. The response to the call for evidence has now been published and sets out how the Government plans to implement the register.

04-04-2018 / Real Estate

The Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) were introduced by the Energy Efficiency (Private Rented Property) (England and Wales) Regulations 2015 (the “Regulations”) and will apply to private rented commercial and residential premises from 1 April 2018.

21-12-2017 / Real Estate

We have recently completed a transaction advising on the purchase of a portfolio of 14 convenience stores and petrol filling stations for just under £31m.

09-01-2017 / Real Estate

Adrian Bingham's article was first published by The Law Society Gazette on 21 December 2016 Legal practitioners are increasingly impervious to the arts of mediation – but it can achieve remarkable results

18-12-2015 / Real Estate

This article was first published in Haysmacintyre's Autumn 2015 Property Briefing When objects fall off buildings causing damage or injury, the liability faced by the property owner (and its insurer) can potentially be significant. There are, of course, many reasons why masonry or cladding, bits of steel or glazing might fall from a building and usually expert investigation will be able to show why it happened. The courts then decide (with the assistance of the parties’ lawyers) who is liable for the loss and damage by establishing whether a contractual and/or other duty of care was owed, who owed it and whether there was a failure in that duty.

01-12-2015 / Real Estate

The Insurance Act 2015, coming into force August 2016, will significantly alter the relationship between the insurer and the commercial insured.

27-10-2015 / Real Estate

As from 1 February 2016 all private landlords in England will have to check that any new tenants have the right to be in the UK before renting out their property (“the right to rent”).

10-08-2015 / Real Estate

Do you own the freehold of a block of flats? Do you own a building with two or more flats in it? If you answered yes to either question, is there a head lease in place between you as freeholder and the tenants of the individual flats? If the answer is yes again, you may be at risk of losing a potentially valuable asset.

09-07-2015 / Real Estate

Ending Non-Dom Tax Status With effect from 6 April 2017 a non-domiciled individual who has been resident in the UK in 15 of the previous 20 tax years will be deemed domiciled in the UK for all tax purposes. The change effectively brings to an end the “non-dom” tax status for these “longer term” residents.  The option of paying tax on foreign income and gains on the remittance basis will no longer be available.

10-06-2015 / Real Estate

Landlords of multi-let buildings who supply heat, hot water or cooling through a communal system may be bound by the obligations imposed by the Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations 2014 as amended by Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Amendment Regulations 2015.

02-12-2013 / Real Estate

Tenants of long lease flats in apartment blocks have the right to get together and buy the freehold from the current owner This process is known as collective enfranchisement However, the cost of doing so may just have risen, following a recent Court of Appeal decision in the case of Cravecrest Ltd v Duke of Grosvenor and Vowden Investments Ltd

01-06-2023 / Real Estate

David Quinn, Partner at Ince, says as we emerge from the pandemic (or perhaps more accurately ‘as we thought we were emerging from the pandemic’), the issue of the astronomical debts owed by commercial tenants is prominent and must be addressed.

01-06-2023 / Agriculture & Rural Affairs, Private Wealth, Real Estate

Our Agriculture & Rural Affairs team are delighted to be attending the Vale of Glamorgan Agricultural Show, taking place this Wednesday 10 August.