The Rent Review Specialist
Original ideas, forward-thinking In-depth advice
Holistic, original, deep-thinking, tenacious, I provide an unusual range of skills that will contribute far more than most towards the profitability of your business.
My newsletter, Rent Review Matters, is renowned for original thinking, insight and accurate prediction. To read and keep in touch, please click here.
About Michael Lever
Born in 1949 in Ealing, West London, educated at the City of London School, my commercial property career began at Montagu Evans, London, in 1967. In 1971, I joined my late father's firm, Fineman Lever & Company, chartered surveyors at its branch in NW London. In 1975, I established my practice in Harrow, NW London, when I pioneered specialising in rent review and lease renewal. In 1993, I moved my office to Ledbury, Herefordshire. In 2021, I accepted an invitation to become a non-executive director of Commercial Surveying Group Limited - a selected group of chartered surveyors and renowned specialist advisers providing in-depth advice and practical help for landlords and tenants, including sale, acquisition and lettings of commercial property for occupation and investment, rent review, lease expiry and renewal, lease restructuring, forensic advice for property costs, commercial property management, valuation for taxation, probate, and company accounts.
As well as advising clients, I contribute to professional wisdom and market intelligence by writing about rent reviews, business tenancies, and retail property.
In 1978, I published a pamphlet, "The Framework of Rent Review Clauses”, which was given publicity in leading law and property journals. In 1983, I published a 28-page booklet,’ How to do a Rent Review’; priced at £5, it was an instant hit with more than 2000 sales; and, in a letter to me was described by Professor John Ratcliffe, then Dean of the Faculty of the Built Environment at the Polytechnic of the South Bank, London (now University of the South Bank, London) as an "excellent digest of a particularly complex area of professional practice and study". In 1984, I published a booklet, reprinted in 1988, entitled “Investment in Secondary Shops” and in 1988 “, How to Read an Auction Catalogue”: more than 1500 booklets sold, and many landlords have used my services regularly ever since. In 1988 I published a booklet, "The Psychology of Rent Review Negotiation”, and after that, numerous pamphlets and newsletters; over the years, my contribution to the world of rent review is such that many of my original ideas nowadays pervade popular thinking.
My publications are welcomed by solicitors, barristers, chartered surveyors, accountants, students, public and private property companies, private investors, banks, and multiple retailers.
My letters and articles appear in Estates Gazette, Law Society's Gazette, Solicitors' Journal, Chartered Surveyor, Arbitrator, Estates Times, The Grocer, Ledbury Reporter, Financial Times, Property Law Bulletin, Central (Institute of Directors), Investor's Chronicle, Property Week, and Retail Week. I contribute to the commercial property forum and as a guest writer for LandlordZone.and am a guest editor for Property Law UK,
I am mentioned in a Blundell Memorial Lecture and a 'footnote' in 2 law books - 'Land Options' by Barnsley (1980); and 'Drafting Business Leases' by Lewison (1981) (nowadays, the Rt. Honourable the Lord Justice Lewison n in the Court of Appeal). In 1984, I launched Quarterly Commentary, renamed Current Review and now Rent Review Matters, my free online newsletter about rent review, investment and retailing. To keep in touch, please click the RSS Feed at the end of the index under Rent Review Matters; in 1995, I was awarded a prize for my essay on the Future of Town Centres and Retailing in a competition sponsored by Marks & Spencer. In 1996, I received a Certificate of Academic Standing from the Law Society. For many years, I was a member of the Shop Agents Society. I have experience as an executor and a trustee.
To complement my services, I provide RPI and Rent Calculator; CPI and Rent Calculator: CPIH and Rent Calculator: ML converter for sqft to sqm also £psf to £psm and vice versa and ITZA Calculator for calculating areas in terms of Zone A and Zone A valuation for rent. All calculators are free of charge, with no log-in/registration and no obligation to use my services. You can also find information about rent reviews and business tenancies under Terminology.
Many of my Clients have used my services regularly since 1975. Regular Clients include property companies, private investors, family trusts, charities, multiple retailers, industrialists, and local businesses. For a list of companies for whom I've acted for and against. For my newsletter. Please click here for the whereabouts of properties that have come my way.
There is no set formula for a rent review, but there is a recipe for success. I consider each situation on its own merits and tailor my thinking to the circumstances. Having an unusually good understanding of retailing and property, I am both professional and entrepreneurial in my approach.
My services are frequently recommended by chartered surveyors, accountants, business advisers, and solicitors.
To contact me, please email help@michaellever.co.uk or telephone 01531 631892
I look forward to helping you in some way.
Michael Lever
PS - Use of this site presupposes you have read the Disclaimer, so please do.
As well as advising clients, I contribute to professional wisdom and market intelligence by writing about rent reviews, business tenancies, and retail property.
In 1978, I published a pamphlet, "The Framework of Rent Review Clauses”, which was given publicity in leading law and property journals. In 1983, I published a 28-page booklet,’ How to do a Rent Review’; priced at £5, it was an instant hit with more than 2000 sales; and, in a letter to me was described by Professor John Ratcliffe, then Dean of the Faculty of the Built Environment at the Polytechnic of the South Bank, London (now University of the South Bank, London) as an "excellent digest of a particularly complex area of professional practice and study". In 1984, I published a booklet, reprinted in 1988, entitled “Investment in Secondary Shops” and in 1988 “, How to Read an Auction Catalogue”: more than 1500 booklets sold, and many landlords have used my services regularly ever since. In 1988 I published a booklet, "The Psychology of Rent Review Negotiation”, and after that, numerous pamphlets and newsletters; over the years, my contribution to the world of rent review is such that many of my original ideas nowadays pervade popular thinking.
My publications are welcomed by solicitors, barristers, chartered surveyors, accountants, students, public and private property companies, private investors, banks, and multiple retailers.
My letters and articles appear in Estates Gazette, Law Society's Gazette, Solicitors' Journal, Chartered Surveyor, Arbitrator, Estates Times, The Grocer, Ledbury Reporter, Financial Times, Property Law Bulletin, Central (Institute of Directors), Investor's Chronicle, Property Week, and Retail Week. I contribute to the commercial property forum and as a guest writer for LandlordZone.and am a guest editor for Property Law UK,
I am mentioned in a Blundell Memorial Lecture and a 'footnote' in 2 law books - 'Land Options' by Barnsley (1980); and 'Drafting Business Leases' by Lewison (1981) (nowadays, the Rt. Honourable the Lord Justice Lewison n in the Court of Appeal). In 1984, I launched Quarterly Commentary, renamed Current Review and now Rent Review Matters, my free online newsletter about rent review, investment and retailing. To keep in touch, please click the RSS Feed at the end of the index under Rent Review Matters; in 1995, I was awarded a prize for my essay on the Future of Town Centres and Retailing in a competition sponsored by Marks & Spencer. In 1996, I received a Certificate of Academic Standing from the Law Society. For many years, I was a member of the Shop Agents Society. I have experience as an executor and a trustee.
To complement my services, I provide RPI and Rent Calculator; CPI and Rent Calculator: CPIH and Rent Calculator: ML converter for sqft to sqm also £psf to £psm and vice versa and ITZA Calculator for calculating areas in terms of Zone A and Zone A valuation for rent. All calculators are free of charge, with no log-in/registration and no obligation to use my services. You can also find information about rent reviews and business tenancies under Terminology.
Many of my Clients have used my services regularly since 1975. Regular Clients include property companies, private investors, family trusts, charities, multiple retailers, industrialists, and local businesses. For a list of companies for whom I've acted for and against. For my newsletter. Please click here for the whereabouts of properties that have come my way.
There is no set formula for a rent review, but there is a recipe for success. I consider each situation on its own merits and tailor my thinking to the circumstances. Having an unusually good understanding of retailing and property, I am both professional and entrepreneurial in my approach.
My services are frequently recommended by chartered surveyors, accountants, business advisers, and solicitors.
To contact me, please email help@michaellever.co.uk or telephone 01531 631892
I look forward to helping you in some way.
Michael Lever
PS - Use of this site presupposes you have read the Disclaimer, so please do.