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Dispute resolution procedure at rent review

Feb 2016 – At rent review, the phrase ‘going to arbitration’ is often bandied about during negotiations as a means for one party to get its own way.  Whether or not the parties can agree the rent without involving the dispute resolution procedure, it is common for a represented or experienced party to invoke as […]

RICS DRS – the first 50 years

Feb 2026 – The RICS DRS marking 50 years this year is to be congratulated. I have paid tribute direct including. of course, it helps to have a monopoly for appointments in probably every lease of commercial property in England and Wales. It wasn’t always thus. My experience of dispute resolution pre-dates the RICS DRS. […]

RICS DRS: Third party inexperience

Feb 2026. Rent review and third party reasons. I act for a freeholder/ landlord whose tenant is a quoted property company. The tenant sub-lets the property to two different occupiers. The rent review in the head-lease between my client and prop co went to arbitration. In my submission to the arbitrator, I advocated that the […]