All posts tagged "Dispute Resolution"
Dispute Resoution – RICS DRS: the 1st 50 years
Jan 2016. The RICS DRS (Dispute Resolution Service) marking 50 years this year is to be congratulated. I have paid tribute direct including, of course, it helps to have a monopoly for appointments in probably every lease of commercial property in England and Wales. It wasn’t always thus. My experience of dispute resolution pre-dates the […]
Tenants v Landlords
May 2025 – A silent war is raging between tenants and landlords. This commercial purpose of a rent review, according to British Gas Corporation v Universities Superannuation Scheme (1987), and Equity & Law Life Assurance Society plc v Bodfield (1987), is to keep the rent in line with current property values having regard to the […]
VOA areas and rent review
Aug 2025. VOA areas and rent review. In many places, and often contrary to what is on-line, the VOA zoning methodology is not 6.1m/6.1m/6.1m (20’/20’/20′). but 4.57m/ 7.62m/ 6.1m (15’/25’/20′). Where VOA areas are relied on assuming 20/20/20 when they’re not is a common trip-up for rent review surveyors none the wiser. (Strictly, 20 ft […]