Real Estate Law Bitesize Series – Details, episodes & analysis

Episode 8 of the bitesize series covers the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022, and the upcoming deadline of 31 January 2023 to register overseas entities on the new Register of Overseas Entities at Companies House. Sarah Faull and Gareth Wynne discuss how the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 will affect all overseas entities who own or are looking to own qualifying real estate in the UK. Failure to comply can result in financial or even criminal penalties so it is important that entities are made aware and start the registration process sooner rather than later.

This series of bitesize videos will be a chance to hear from various members of the Real Estate team on need-to-know updates and topical issues in the sector.

Following the release of the government's heat and buildings strategy Senior Counsel Sarah Walker and Senior Counsel John Buttanshaw have recorded a follow up conversation to last week's episode on heat to discuss the implications of the strategy. 

This series of bitesize videos will be a chance to hear from various members of the Real Estate team on need-to-know updates and topical issues in the sector.

In the seventh of the series, Senior Counsel Sarah Walker, and Senior Counsel, John Buttanshaw, discuss the latest hot topics in the real estate world when it comes to sustainable infrastructure, different types of heating networks and the key regulatory challenges. 

This series of bitesize videos will be a chance to hear from various members of the Real Estate team on need-to-know updates and topical issues in the sector.

In the sixth of the series, Senior Counsel Sarah Walker, and Associate, Aimee Hutchinson, discuss the latest hot topics in the real estate tax world when it comes to tenant's works, including the new VAT Reverse Charge and the Super Deduction.

In the fifth of the series, Senior Counsel Sarah Walker, and Head of Planning, Romola Parish, discuss the new use classes.

In the fifth of the series, Senior Counsel Sarah Walker, and Head of Planning, Romola Parish, discuss the new use classes.

In the fourth of the series, Senior Counsel Sarah Walker, and Associates Elizabeth Duan and Neela Bhurtun, discuss the challenges ESG is causing the Real Estate sector, how their investments are being affected, and what asset managers now need to consider moving past Covid-19 and into the rest of the decade. In the session they consider:

• What social impact investing looks like
• Investing in an environmental way
• Portfolio vs. asset level reporting
• Carbon offsetting
• What asset managers need to consider

In the third of the series, Senior Counsel Sarah Walker and Knowledge Counsel Sarah Faull take a look at AGAs and GAGAs. As various restrictions have been put in place to protect tenants under leases, these restrictions do not prevent landlords from claiming for arrears under an AGA/GAGA. This webinar focusses on the basics from the perspective of a guarantor under one of these instruments, including:

• What are AGAs/GAGAs?
• What are the difficulties with including them?
• Identifying AGA and GAGA structures that are not legally valid
• What can/can't a guarantor do to protect itself?

In the second of the series, Senior Counsel, Head of Property Disputes Andrew Ross and Senior Counsel Sarah Walker look at what landlords of commercial premises should do following the extension to the tenant protections up to the end of the year. In the session they consider:

• What is the present position?
• What remains the same?
• What are landlord's options if a tenant does not engage?
• Other points for landlords to remember.

In the first of the series, Partner Emma Pereira and Senior Counsel Sarah Walker consider the recent trend towards turnover rents and their longer-term viability, against the backdrop of the COVID-19 crisis and the ever changing face of the retail and casual dining sectors in particular.