Neisha Taylor

Neisha is a solicitor with over 16 years of experience advising clients in all aspects of residential leases, including lease extension, freehold sales and purchases of blocks of flats and the right to manage. Neisha has dealt with a wide range of property matters, including commercial property.

Neisha guides clients through the process by focusing on explaining this complex area of the law in plain English and always considering how to achieve clients’ desired aims as cost effectively as possible.

Since joining the firm Neisha specialises in residential landlord and tenant matters and has particular expertise in dealing with:

• Lease extensions of leasehold flats, whether by agreement or by the formal notice procedure;
• Sales and Purchases of buildings containing flats either by agreement or where formal notices are served by the Landlord (known as the right of first refusal) or the flat owners collectively (known as collective enfranchisement);
• Sales and Purchases of the freehold of leasehold houses, whether by agreement or by the formal notice procedure (known as enfranchisement);
• Granting new leases of flats whether to replace out of date leases or for a new development;
• Right to Manage buildings containing flats, acting for landlord or flat owners;
• Deeds of Variation of residential leases;
• Advising on doubling ground rent clauses in residential leases;
• Advising Landlords, Tenants and Management Companies generally on issues with residential leases.

Neisha is part of our Property Litigation and Dispute Resolution Team, who can advise where matters turn contentious or where applications to the Tribunal or the County Court may be required – for example, where

Landlord’s are missing, refuse to cooperate, there are service charge/ground rent disputes, or Landlord’s are in breach of their obligations under the lease etc. She also works closely with the firm’s professional negligence specialists in assisting clients with potential claims against former solicitors who have failed to advise or given incorrect advise in relation to a lease, ground rent or other enfranchisement issues.