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Our experienced Commercial Real Estate team can assist you with any issues relating to consents or licences for alterations, assignment of leases, underletting, deeds of variation and rent or other lease concessions. We also can help with rent reviews, security of tenure and the 1954 Act and any other issues related to leases and the ongoing management of relationships.

We can also provide advice on any issues that arise during the lifetime of a lease. For tenants, this could include questions about your lease obligations or how to handle lease renewals, or for landlords, this could include advice on any statutory obligations associated with letting your property.

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  • 07 April 2022
  • Commercial Real Estate

Commercial Rent Deposits – A brief overview

A rent deposit is money provided by a tenant to its landlord as security for payment of the rent and performance of the tenant’s covenants contained in the lease. A rent deposit deed will specify the circumstances in which the landlord can draw on this money and the conditions that must be satisfied for the deposit to be repaid to the tenant.
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  • 16 March 2022
  • Commercial Real Estate

Clarkslegal advises Crown Packaging on new beverage can plant in Peterborough

The Commercial Real Estate team at Clarkslegal has advised on the purchase and redevelopment of a state-of-the-art new beverage can plant site in Peterborough for Crown Packaging.
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  • 10 February 2022
  • Commercial Real Estate

Landowner obligations in respect of tenant’s waste and fly-tipping

Fly-tipping is an offence under the Environmental Protection Act 1990, incurring not only financial penalties but also potential imprisonment.
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  • 26 January 2022
  • Commercial Real Estate

Historic rent reviews: A warning for tenants

We have been asked whether a landlord is able to operate historic rent reviews.  The lease in question was a lease granted in 1999 for a term of 15 years, expiring at the end of December 2013 and within the protection of the renewal provisions of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954. 
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  • 21 January 2022
  • Commercial Real Estate

What happens to a sublease when the headlease is surrendered, forfeited or disclaimed?

Where a headlease is surrendered the intermediate tenant under the headlease falls away and the tenant under the sublease becomes the direct tenant of the superior landlord. This means that the premises will continue to be occupied by the tenant on the terms of the sublease.
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  • 17 January 2022
  • Commercial Real Estate

Top 5 tips before taking on a restaurant property

Often the hardest part of opening a restaurant is finding the perfect property for your venture but once you are in then you then need to make it a success.
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Crown Europe

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Orkhan Eyyubov, Founding Director – New Canada Capital

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