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On this blog I regularly share articles, case studies and videos to shed light on the topics that come up most frequently when I am helping business owners who are addressing their premises challenges.
Don’t have premises unless you absolutely need them
Don’t have business premises unless you absolutely need them. That is one of my mantras. I recently had my windscreen replaced. The process was interesting but the really interesting thing was to hear from the guy on the tools, how the screen replacement company has changed working practices and so reduced its property overhead quite […]
It is not all about the rent
If we only agree the length of the lease and the amount of rent, we have left perhaps a dozen other terms and conditions which will not be tailored to the needs of the business. Does that matter? In a typical commercial lease of about 40 pages, you can expect about 1½ pages to be […]
A new lease of life
A new lease of life: businesses would surely achieve better terms if they knew how An interesting article in a recent issue of Estates Gazette, by John Forbes QC and Vivien King discusses how commercial lease terms could be improved and clarified. As the vast majority of lease terms are burdens on the tenant, it […]
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