The Weekly Law Reports
[2022] 4 WLR 59
Court of Appeal
Cadogan Holdings Ltd v Alberti
[2022] EWCA Civ 499
2022 Feb 8; Apr 13
King LJ, Sir Keith Lindblom, Newey LJ
Landlord and tenant— Leasehold enfranchisement— Tenant's right to acquire reversion— Calculation of amount payable— Tenant's predecessor in title converting house back from flats into single dwelling raising value of property— Whether statutory assumption requiring freehold to be valued on valuation date as if building could only lawfully be used as flats and not single house, or on basis that it could lawfully be used as single house— Whether conversion to single dwelling “improvement carried out by the tenant” to be taken into account in assessing price payable—
Leasehold Reform Act 1967, s 9(1A)(d) (as inserted by Housing Act 1974, s 118(4))