On January 1, 2020, a real estate management company executed a written 7-year agreement, leasing a business property it managed to a florist. The jurisdiction has a statute of frauds requiring that a lease for more than two years be written in order to be enforceable. On April 1, 2023, the florist assigned the lease to a baker who was opening a bakery. Neither the florist nor the baker gave the real estate management company any notice of the assignment.

Is the assignment valid?
Question 3 options:

a)

Yes, if the assignment was in writing and the lease did not specifically prohibit an assignment.

b)

Yes, whether or not the assignment was in writing.

c)

No, because no one gave the real estate management company notice of the assignment.

d)

No, because the lease contained no clause specifically allowing an assignment.