Housing Law:Text Cases & Mats

Housing law is an area of some complexity and is subject to frequent legislative change. It could be described as a ‘political football, especially in relation to such areas as homelessness and the protection given to tenants in both the public and

called the ‘freehold reversion’, and it represents the interest which remains vested tenancy the landlord has a reversionary interest in the property which he can sell

Assignment is a process by which the interest of the tenant or of the landlord is transferred to a third party (assignee), who then steps into the place of the assignor. assignment) or restricts (qualified covenant against assignment) the tenant’s ability

party may determine it at any time’ (per Nicholls LJ in [1991] 1 All ER giving the usual period of notice.