Barnsley's Land Options 6th Edition

Barnsley’s Land Options gives comprehensive guidance on all aspects of options relating to land. Dealing with options in both commercial and residential land, it covers the entire range of options, including options to buy, to pre-emption, to renew a lease, to determine a lease and options granted by will.

• Goes through the creation, assignment and exercise of options
• Advises on both the obligations of the option grantor and the rights of the option holder
• Goes through the remedies for breach of an option agreement
• Offers solutions to problems that often arise in practice
• Contains detailed advice on questions of construction, enforceability, and the impact of statute
• Covers the implications of tax, including stamp duty land tax
• Explains the impact of the Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 2009
• Examines the raft of recent High Court decisions on the validity of option notices, including Marks and Spencer plc v BNP Paribas Securities Services [2013] and Siemens Hearing Instruments Ltd v Friends Life Ltd [2013]
• Discusses recent cases in many other areas, including assignability of options, price payable on exercise of options, vacant possession in relation to the exercise of break options, terms to be implied into option agreements, effect of escheat and vesting orders, and nonregistration of options