CPI Update 248 – January 2025

For subscribers, the January 2025 issue of the CPI Update appears attached below, and deals with the following cases:

  • Registration gap issues with the right to manage – 159-167 Prince of Wales Road RTM Company Ltd v Assethold Ltd.
  • Terminating leases for repudiatory breach – Ramsbury Properties Ltd v Ocean View Construction Ltd.
  • Breach of undertakings and property fraud – Social Money Ltd v Attwells Solicitors LLP & Anor.
  • Rights of termination in contracts for sale – Weston Homes PLC v Henley Developments 211 Ltd & Anor.
  • Damages for unlawful forfeiture – Restaurant EC3 Ltd v Tavor Holdings Ltd.        

There is also coverage of:

  • The additional homes surcharge for Land Transaction Tax.
  • Government guidance on high street rental auctions.
  • Proposed changes to EPC rules.
  • Competent landlords in the registration gap.
  • High street rental auctions – what is a street?
  • City of London Law Society example clauses for the registration gap.
  • Land Registry practice guide updates – Adverse possession (LRPG 4); Charities (LRPG 14).

Published on 1 January 2025.