At Mills & Reeve, our leasehold enfranchisement team specialises in providing expert legal advice and support for landlords seeking to either achieve the maximum value for their properties or challenge the exercise of tenants’ rights of leasehold enfranchisement. Whether the property is a block of flats or a leasehold house, our experienced team is here to guide you through the complexities of the Leasehold Reform Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 and the Leasehold Reform Act 1967.
Our leasehold enfranchisement team offers comprehensive legal services for landlords in relation to leasehold enfranchisement. Our service is personal to you - we will work closely with you to understand your objectives and ensure that you achieve them.
Acting for both landlords and tenants ensures that we understand what the other side is hoping to achieve and the tactics they may employ. We can provide pre-emptive and pragmatic advice as a result. We have experience of dealing with high value, complex properties and provide commercial and pragmatic advice at every stage.
Whatever you need, we can help you.
Our lawyers
Our experienced leasehold enfranchisement team provides tailored legal solutions, ensuring your needs are met with expertise and dedication. Plus, our reliable network of valuers, surveyors and many more, ensure all of your issues are covered.
Our experience
We are experts in all aspects of leasehold enfranchisement. We advise landlords on the following:
- Collective enfranchisement claims
- Voluntary and statutory lease extensions of flats
- Enfranchisement (freehold purchase) and lease extensions of houses
We deal with high value, complex, properties across the country, including Prime Central London.
Our specialist lawyers will work with you to extract the maximum value from your interest or to challenge the basis on which your tenants are seeking to exercise their statutory rights. Examples of previous work include:
- Successfully challenging a claim to collectively enfranchise a block of 50+ flats in London
- Advising landlord clients on development potential and how best to extract any development hope value in collective enfranchisement claims
- Representing universities and colleges in relation to claims to acquire the freehold of leasehold houses
- Dealing with leasebacks to retain value in buildings being collectively enfranchised
- Acting for well-known London estate on all high-net-worth leasehold enfranchisement matters
- Advising ground rent investors on leasehold enfranchisement risk in relation to potential acquisitions
- Acting for Real Estate Investment Trusts on statutory and voluntary lease extensions and collective enfranchisements
You will have access to specialist lawyers in related fields such as residential landlord and tenant law, residential conveyancing, real estate disputes, banking, corporate, tax, planning, construction, environmental and agricultural law. However complex your matter may be, we can help you make sure that you have all angles covered.
