Property Management: Volume 1 Issue 3

Licence to assign — some problems

Philip Freedman LLB

Landlords seem to be receiving more applications for consent to assignment of commercial leases than ever before. It is no doubt a reflection of the present economic climate in…

Party walls for property managers

John Anstey BA FRICS FCIArb

Anyone can be a party wall surveyor. Despite the continued successful existence of The Pyramus and Thisbe Club, it is not yet a condition of The London Building Acts (Amendment…

Property management in a local authority

Barry Roberts ARICS

Perhaps the first question this title raises is why local authorities should concern themselves with property management at all, with the exception of such specialised activities…

Capital allowances on plant and machinery in buildings

Robert Maas FCA ATII

So much has been written in recent years about industrial buildings allowance that it would be a rare thing if anyone involved in property overlooked them. It is less widely…

VAT and property management

P.L. Landon

One might be forgiven, I suppose, for querying the point of an article like this. After all, rent and property sales are VAT free. And as far as VAT on property outgoings is…

Rates and the property manager — Part II

M. Oxley BSc, W.M. Maxted BSc Msc DipTP ARICS

There is a danger that any significant changes in the rating system will involve only dwellings and that non‐domestic rating will continue as before. There are, however, strong…