| Ground Rent Increase — Doubling Every 25 Years (Leasehold Flat)
| Adopt or adapt this wording to explain a doubling ground rent and record the client’s instructions. It mitigates negligence risk from assumed reform or lender acceptance and highlights the implications for mortgageability, future sale and lease-extension costs.
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| Absolute Restriction Against Alterations (Duval)
| Include this wording where an absolute alterations restriction interacts with mutual enforcement obligations. It mitigates negligence risk from treating landlord consent as a complete solution and alerts clients to remaining restrictions, claims and obstacles to proposed works.
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| Manorial Rights
| Use or adapt this wording to explain recorded manorial rights and the significance of existing title entries. It mitigates negligence risk from unsupported reassurance and identifies matters requiring investigation before the client accepts restrictions affecting use or future sale.
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| Climate Change Index Rating
| Adopt or adapt this wording to report the search provider’s climate findings and identify specialist follow-up. It mitigates negligence risk from unsupported technical conclusions and alerts clients to issues affecting insurance, mortgage finance, future use and marketability.
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| HMO Licensing and Mortgage Condition (England Only)
| Consider this wording where HMO licensing affects a purchase or proposed letting. It mitigates negligence risk from relying on the seller’s licence or a mortgage deadline and warns clients of enforcement exposure, licensing conditions and unquantified works costs.
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| Buyer - Funded Off-Plan Development: Deposit to be Released to Developer
| Draft wording where more than the usual deposit will be released before completion and used to fund the development, particularly where the buyer has no first-ranking security, guarantee or comparable protection. To be adapted to reflect the actual contract, release conditions, security arrangements and priority of the developer’s funder.
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