Tenancy Advice - you may depend on wise reasoning and sound advice.

On grant of a new lease, or at lease renewal, or on assignment or variation to an existing lease, after negotiations are concluded and outline terms are agreed in principle, the agreement is put into the form of a legally-binding document. At that stage, many surveyors leave everything to the lawyers, but that can do you disservice.

The wording of a document has repercussions. 

With a business tenancy, the consequences of inexperience can be horrendously expensive. 

At future rent review, it is common to find an intention is lost because, before completing the lease, the lawyers did not agree the wording with surveyors.

To ensure your interests are well looked after, I liaise with your solicitors on drafting and approval of the document. Even if you negotiated terms yourself or have another surveyor, it will pay to involve my services. 

I subscribe to leading sources of business tenancy law and I have my own computerised law library, containing thousands of judgments and unreported cases, with articles on strategy.

Frequently, I am asked to provide lawyers with advice on the drafting and approving of rent review guidelines in leases and related documents.

Whenever you would like some general advice, please feel free to contact me, by telephone
01531 631892 or email

To contact me, please telephone
01531 631892 or email help@michaellever.co.uk


Michael Lever