Europe: Real Estate and Construction

The Renters' Rights Act 2025 has expanded liability for unlicensed HMO and selective licensing offences to include superior landlords and freeholders, not just immediate landlords. This article examines what constitutes a 'reasonable excuse' defence and outlines practical steps freeholders should take to protect themselves from potential enforcement action and rent repayment orders.

Rebecca Lee shares her journey from law firm receptionist to qualified solicitor, discussing her passion for helping clients through life's most challenging moments in wills and probate work. She reflects on career highlights including managing a £4.2 million estate and her commitment to charitable fundraising for Pancreatic Cancer UK.

Property owners with buildings containing multiple flats under a single title can unlock significant financial and strategic advantages through title splitting. This legal process creates individual leasehold interests for each unit, enabling more flexible refinancing options, easier sales, and clearer management structures, though it requires careful navigation of legal requirements including the fundamental rule that you cannot grant a lease to yourself.

Foreign nationals can acquire property in Turkey, but the transaction requires careful legal assessment beyond commercial considerations. Title restrictions, construction irregularities, ownership disputes and payment documentation issues can materially affect the investment, particularly when the acquisition is connected with citizenship eligibility or completed through representatives.

The rules around the UK’s Trust Registration Service (TRS) have changed again, effective as of 30 June 2026. The new rules expand the scope of trusts involved in real estate holding structures...

From planning consents and complex fit-outs to dilapidations and power supply - the key considerations for those active in healthcare property development.

From planning consents and complex fit-outs to dilapidations and power supply - the key considerations for those active in healthcare property development.

A contractor sought to enforce an adjudicator's decision on liquidated damages, while the employer argued that email correspondence had created a binding agreement to revise completion dates outside the contractual extension of time mechanism. The court examined whether informal email exchanges using the language of agreement could override formal contract procedures, and whether the employer's agent possessed the authority to enter such agreements.

The UK Living sector attracted £4.4 billion in investment during the first half of 2026, yet rising costs, regulatory complexity, and economic uncertainty are creating barriers between institutional capital and housing delivery. While investor appetite remains strong, particularly for Single Family Rental assets, the challenge lies in deploying capital efficiently at the scale required to address the UK's accommodation shortage.

From planning consents and complex fit-outs to dilapidations and power supply - the key considerations for those active in healthcare property development.

Kira sözleşmeleri, tarafların karşılıklı edimlerinin kanun tarafından önemli ölçüde düzenlendiği sözleşme türlerinden biridir. Bununla birlikte, özellikle konut ve çatılı işyeri kiralarında uygulamada tarafların, Türk Borçlar Kanunu'nda ("TBK") öngörülen yükümlülüklerin ötesine geçen çeşitli sözleşmesel düzenlemeler yaptıkları görülmektedir.

Lease agreements are a type of contract in which the mutual obligations of the parties are significantly regulated by law. However, particularly in residential and commercial property leases, it is observed in practice that the parties enter into various contractual arrangements that go beyond the obligations provided for in the Turkish Code of Obligations (“TBK”).