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Investment leases it's all about location

Retail Leases

When purchasing an investment property they would ideally like it in a suitable location for whatever it is, i.e. a retail shop would best be located in a high street and an industrial unit would best be located in an area where there is good road links. The best of these properties goes usually to institutional investors, the remaining landlords, still themselves substantial businesses, looking less at primary sites and more at secondary or tertiary sites.

Equally, they understand that non-high street located retail units will not draw primary high street names, such as Marks & Spencer, Debenhams, John Lewis, BHS, Next, etc. The quality of these stores is such that they are often known as anchor stores because they anchor the retail business and then generate foot traffic (customers known as foot fall), which in turn support a whole industry of other retail units.

 

The landlord's catch 22

The landlord of non-primary real estate/property will therefore get non-primary tenants/leaseholders. One category of these is new and start up businesses. It may well be the situation that you find yourself in and you will therefore look to limit their liability. This may be by requiring rent in advance, or by having very onerous lease clauses, we certainly feel that it is not a fair game. However, from the landlord's viewpoint he has a catch 22 situation as he requires the property to be leased, as this gains him an income stream, he appreciates the property is a primary so is limited on the type of leaseholders that will be looking to lease the property, or where the landlord takes a business risk and moves some of the goalposts, for example requiring six to twelve months rent in advance.

 

Leases in years to come

In years to come this can be quite an interesting situation where perhaps the company has grown considerably and they have a very strong lease in the landlord's favour, they perhaps took the property on in a poor condition and from the landlord's point of view he feels that he gave them the opportunity to start up their business and perhaps many others wouldn't have taken the risk and as such expects the property back in the condition the lease requires. A business that has grown knows that they took the property on originally in a poor condition and feel that they should offer it back in that condition, having been, what they consider to be good tenants, i.e. they have paid the rent. You can see where a conflict arises in this situation.

 

When the dilapidations notice is served

When the dilapidations notice is served a company that has grown and expanded over the years is in a position to fight the claim (and we are presently dealing with a company that has grown to be much bigger than the landlord), however the landlord has the protection of the lease clauses and the tenant/leaseholder has no protection because he didn't have a schedule of condition carried out originally. This is where the phrase any fool can get a lease comes from, but it is a very different matter to get out of a lease.

 

 

 

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