Course Content:
EFFECTIVE SITE ACQUISITION
• Finance of the development - banks’ requirements
• Collateral warranties - key points for the construction team
• Oral contracts for sale of land - dangers of “doing an informal deal”
• Side-letters and collateral agreements – what you can’t get away with
• Options and conditional contracts – tips
• Overage arrangements - pros and cons in today's market
SUCCESSFUL PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT
• Boundaries, plans and the “general boundary rule”
• Easements – issues with “enlargement” and “intensification”
• Restrictive covenants against building - trends in release and modification
• Ransom strips - strategic creation
• Sales of part - practical difficulties in new developments
• Development issues - planning, highways and service agreements
• Rights to light and party wall issues
PARTICULAR CONSTRUCTION "HEADACHES"
• “Let the buyer beware” – traps for the unwary
• Unregistered land - hidden dangers
• Adverse possession and squatters’ rights – how to avoid
• Contaminated land - mitigating the risk
• Telecommunications masts - hidden dangers of “sterilising land”
MANAGEMENT OF LEASEHOLD PROPERTIES
• Lease/licence distinction - implications today
• Oral tenancy agreements - dangers of over reliance
• Ongoing liability of tenants under leases - post termination covenants
• Variations, side-letters and collateral agreements
• Agreements for leases and sub-sale - liability and pitfalls
• Assignment of leases - points to watch
• “Statutory renewal” of business tenants - estate management issues
• Rent review - impact of fit out and goodwill
• Dilapidations – “over-egging” of claims
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