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We are proud to announce that Boodle Hatfield has been named 'Residential Property Team of the Year' at the Chambers High Net Worth Awards 2025.
Collecting the prestigious accolade, Saskia Arthur, Edward Allan and Thomas Healy attended the...
British Land has this week announced completion of the offset of residual embodied carbon at 100 Liverpool Street; British Land's first net zero carbon building and one of the first in London.
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It is worth considering firstly how drones are presently being used in the property sector, which in recent years has become widespread. A number of organisations have been successfully using drones for many years to conduct external inspections of property.
There is a perpetual myth the construction industry trails other industries in the drive for modernisation. Whilst this may be true in labour and recruitment practices, it is not a universal truth.
David Rawlence and Steve Coulson offer their thoughts on the various legal structures that property owners could adopt in the serviced office market.
Recent figures suggest Westminster City Council is sitting on £250m in unspent section 106 and Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) payments. This money is supposed to be spent on local infrastructure to mitigate the
A revolution is happening and it could make previously unviable locations suddenly very attractive to manufacturers.
For some time, real estate practitioners have been aware of the Government’s plans to reform leasehold enfranchisement legislation.
Our art law team was delighted to advise the Herman-De-Stern Foundation, along with the L.A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art, Jerusalem, on the recently announced, ground-breaking arrangement brokered by Sotheby’s with The Al-Thani Collection Foundation.
It is difficult to forget images of Grenfell Tower burning. Nearly four years later and the "Grenfell Forever In Our Hearts" sign on the building still looms over North Kensington as a stark reminder of the flammable
So, following the latest government announcement that the moratorium on commercial property evictions is to be extended until at least the end of June, I find myself writing a similar post to those that I wrote in
The Domestic Abuse Bill 2021 has been strengthened this week to recognise post-separation abuse as a criminal offence. The amendment to the Bill is a welcome addition after months of campaigning by survivors of
Today’s Budget confirmed that the Inheritance Tax (IHT) threshold will not be changed until 2026 at the earliest – meaning that it will have been kept at the same rate for 17 years.
In the Budget this week, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak provided further details about the UK Infrastructure Bank tasked with bringing "world-class infrastructure" to the UK.
The bank will have £12bn of
The UK listing rules are currently in the spotlight, with the Government keen to make London a more attractive place for listings.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer stood up today to present what he must be hoping was his “end of” or “almost end of” pandemic budget. It is clear that the state of public finances is not at all where Rishi Sunak would wish it to be – at least in normal times.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer stood up yesterday to present what he must be hoping was his "end of" or "almost end of" pandemic budget and it is clear that the state of public finances is not at all where Rishi
The UK industrial/warehouse market has been enjoying a sustained period of growth and a number of recent market surveys, including this one carried out by Allsop's, predict that this trend shows no sign of slowing
In his latest blog, Ian Fletcher of the British Property Federation (BPF) sets out an
Leading private wealth law firm Boodle Hatfield, has promoted Edward Allan to Partner in its top-ranked Residential Property Team.
We are now in March and still no closer to understanding the detail behind the Government's intended form of the law relating to leasehold properties.
The latest announcement, published on 7 January, raises
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