Courses for commercial
property practitioners
All courses are 3 hours in length. We are always happy to discuss
adaptations, variations or new course requests.
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1. Overage
Half day course intermediate/advanced level
There are now a significant number of
transactions where overage is negotiated to enable the seller to obtain a
further return in the event of the property increasing in price following
sale. This course looks at some of the problems areas encountered in
drafting and structuring these agreements, and gives some tips on the
pitfalls and traps to avoid.
Commercial and legal background
Drafting
considerations
Anti-avoidance provisions
Best practice on securing
overage
2. Rights of way, light and drainage
current issues
Half day course intermediate/advanced level
Development transactions and acquisitions,
sales or leases of part of land usually require the grant or reservation of
present or future easements. The law and practice in this area is almost
entirely common law based and full of traps for the unwary. This course
considers key problem areas as well as well as providing an update on recent
developments. It offer both practical and commercially orientated solutions.
Background legal and commercial issues
Creation of rights
Specific easements analysed
Remedies and registration
issues
3. Commercial property (and commercial
landlord and tenant) update
Half day course Update level
This course provides an update on recent
developments in the law of relevance to commercial property practitioners.
It concentrates on case law and statutory changes in relation to key
practical matters that are important to law and practice. It will include a
review of commercial landlord and tenant developments. Topics covered will
be dependant on importance of subject matter and the date of delivery of the
course.
Case law update
Statutory changes
Changes in practice
4. Freehold covenants in practice
Half day course intermediate/advanced level
With 80% of all registered titles subject to
covenants, when buying and selling freehold land an understanding of the law
and practice relating to restrictive and positive covenants is crucial to
every property practitioner. Regrettably the law is convoluted and often
obscure. This course provides a realistic and practical review of issues in
relation to law, drafting and interpretation.
Commercial and legal background
Negative
and positive covenants
Drafting issues
Remedies and insurance issues
5. Mortgages perennial problems and current
issues
Half day course intermediate/advanced level
Mortgages, charges and debentures are
commonly encountered by property practitioners as methods of securing loans
against land. It is clearly important to ensure that adequate protection and
priority are secured, and that the many hidden pitfalls are avoided. This
course considers practical and commercial solutions in the context of this
legally complex area of practice.
Background commercial and legal
Registration of charges over land and priorities
Undertakings to discharge mortgages
Rights of the parties
Corporate security
(Reference is made throughout the course to a
standard form mortgage and a standard form debenture that are included in
the materials, and which have been kindly provided by one of the main
commercial lenders)
6. Mixed use properties: acquisition and
development
Half day course intermediate/advanced level
With recent case law extending the situations
where tenants pre-emption rights apply, the commercial and legal complexity
of this area of law continues to increase. Whether when acting in relation
to an investment acquisition of a reversionary interest in a block of flats
(or a mixed use development) or in the creation of a letting scheme for this
type of property, commercial property practitioners ignore the provisions of
the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 at their peril.
Commercial and legal background
Key areas
of complexity and advising clients
Circumventing the Act?
Procedure
7. Sale and Purchase Contracts: Damage
Limitation
Half day course intermediate/advanced level
Thankfully, things rarely go wrong in a
purchase or sale transaction, but when they do it is important to be able to
be able to act with a clear understanding of the relevant law and practice.
Hopefully, a carefully drafted clause will provide the solution. This course
considers key areas in which problems may occur and provides a clear
analysis of the legal issues involved, coupled with guidance on practical
solutions.
Contractual deposits
Issues arising
between exchange and completion
Problems at Completion
Failure to
Complete
8. Complex Property Transactions
Note this course may be of interest to
commercial practitioners who do not normally deal with development work. See
details of this course in the section for courses aimed at residential
practitioners.
9.
Property transactions: twenty topical traps
Half day course intermediate level
This course considers a number of current
practice problems as they might be encountered in a transaction and then
practical and realistic solutions are offered. It is designed for both
commercial and residential practitioners. Areas covered include problems
arising on:
Drafting contracts
Title matters
Enquiries before contract
Exchange
Completion and post completion
Please always enquire about specific courses
that are not shown here, as adaptations can always been made and new courses
created.
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