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Rent Review Matters

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Purpose of Rent Review

Dec 2013 – The purpose of rent review is threefold: 1)      to enable the landlord to review the rent payable;  2)      for the tenant to ensure the rent payable is no more or less than it should be;  3)      for both parties to monitor the performance of the location […]

Reducing Property Costs

Jun 1999 – Socially, “win-win” as a means of avoiding or diffusing argument is useful as a catalyst but, at rent review, I regard it as inappropriate, because the intention is pre-determined as the open market rent: ie, what other retailers would pay for the premises. Whilst landlords would like all tenants to conform to […]

Upward only rent review – the end is nigh!

Jul 2025 – 1.0 Buried deep within the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill 2025 published on 11 July 2025  (“Bill 2025”) is, in the word of one commentator, a seismic proposal that will, if as and when the Bill becomes law, affect all landlords and tenants of commercial property. Despite buried deep, pages 322-329 […]