We have been busy providing lease consultancy advice and assistance to businesses looking at commercial property for rent during the COVID-19 Pandemic. In the last quarter of 2020 we have negotiated terms and secured offices, industrial and retail properties for occupier clients in Bath and Bristol and share below some killer tips for getting a great deal. Use a surveyor that has access to off...
Occupiers everywhere are taking independent commercial property advice on how they can operate their business going forward in these uncertain times and how their commercial real estate overhead fits into their business plan during the COVID-19 pandemic. The quarterly rents may have been paid or short term rental relief may have been agreed with the landlord. There are a lot of businesses that are...
Commercial property service charge dispute
On the 11th May 2020 I presented an online RICS seminar to 750 people on the new code for Leasing Business Premises. This was a new experience for me talking to people from all over the world from behind a computer screen. There was no visual feedback mechanism and I just had to hope that my message was getting across. My message was simple “This code is good for landlords and tenants”. As I...
On 23rd March 2020 the UK government introduced measures to be included in the emergency Coronavirus Bill which has now gone through Parliament. The bill is to ensure that commercial occupiers who cannot pay their rent because of this pandemic will not be evicted for at least three months. This has subsequently been extended and comes to an end in March 2021. Here are some occupier tips coronavirus...
10 things a business occupier can do to check whether their share of the service charge is correct ( the service charge percentage ). There are different methods that landlords use to split service costs between the various occupiers whether in a building, shopping centre or on an estate but the most common by far is the floor area basis. This is where the share payable (by a unit or occupier)...