Commercial Property Disputes

Resolving property disputes. Protecting your business.

Whether you’re a landlord or a tenant, commercial property disputes can significantly impact your business operations and reaching a swift resolution is crucial to maintaining business continuity and protecting your commercial interests.

Our property litigation team works proactively to identify potential issues before they escalate. Working closely with our commercial property specialists, we provide early-stage advice and help you implement risk management strategies that often prevent disputes from developing.

When conflicts do arise, we focus on securing practical, cost-effective solutions that align with your business objectives. Our experience enables us to navigate complex property disputes efficiently, allowing you to maintain focus on your core business activities.

Issues with commercial leases

Our team regularly advise commercial clients on:

  • Recovery of rent arrears
  • Service charge disputes
  • Dilapidations
  • Preparation and service of break notices and related disputes
  • Assigning or subletting disputes
  • Landlord’s unreasonable withholding of consent
  • Forfeiture / possession
  • Insolvency of landlord or tenant
  • Renewal of business leases under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954

Freehold and leasehold land

  • Boundary and right of way disputes
  • Adverse possession claims
  • Enforcement of restrictive covenants
  • Development land
  • Leasehold reform work (including lease extensions and collective enfranchisement)

Professional negligence claims

  • Surveyors
  • Solicitors
  • Valuers

Extending your lease or buying your freehold

Our dedicated enfranchisement specialists guide landlords, tenants and residents’ associations through every stage, from initial notices to tribunal representation. Key services include:

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Please note that we are currently only providing this service to our existing clients.

You should bear in mind that if your dispute is valued at less than £10,000 you will not be able to recover your legal fees from your opponent.

You may wish to consider consulting the Citizens Advice Bureau or your local Law Centre as an alternative.

In order to enable us to give you an accurate estimate of our likely costs to advise you, we will need to review the key documents. As a guide, our costs for reviewing the key documents and giving you initial advice are likely to be in the region of £1,750+VAT.

Before we can confirm whether we are able to act for you, we need to carry out a conflict check to make sure that we have not previously acted for your opponent.

Assuming our conflict check is clear, we will contact you to arrange a time for you to speak to one of our solicitors. Please can you confirm that you still wish to proceed with this enquiry. *

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If your claim relates to an incident that took place more than 4 years ago, you may not be able to bring a claim unless you were under 18 years old at the time.

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