The Rent Review Specialist
Fixtures & Fittings
Commercial Property Insurance - Part 2
Whether lawyer or surveyor, we professional advisers to landlords and tenants have a dual-role in the field of business tenancies: to help clients to abide by and comply with the law, and where the client has not sought our advice beforehand to find legitimate ways to wriggle out of liabilities and responsibilities. For further reading please visit LandlordZone.
Fixtures & Fittings
Fixtures and fittings comprise things that are attached to the landlord or building in a permanent manner, becoming part of the property rather than easily removable.
A rule-of-thumb is to imagine turning the property upside down: anything that falls out would not be a fixture or fitting. (Exceptions include tenant’s trade fittings, including shop counters, ornamental items, and items supplied to the tenant by third parties.)
Generally, a repairing covenant includes landlord’s fixtures and fittings, together with fixtures and fittings belonging to any previous tenant) and the repairing obligation will often extend to replacement.
Before giving up vacant possession of the premises, the tenant would normally have to remove its own fixtures and fittings, but if the tenant then leaves anything behind (perhaps cheaper to do so or not worth bothering about) then the repairing obligation extends to those fixtures and fittings (that previously belonged to the tenant).
A rule-of-thumb is to imagine turning the property upside down: anything that falls out would not be a fixture or fitting. (Exceptions include tenant’s trade fittings, including shop counters, ornamental items, and items supplied to the tenant by third parties.)
Generally, a repairing covenant includes landlord’s fixtures and fittings, together with fixtures and fittings belonging to any previous tenant) and the repairing obligation will often extend to replacement.
Before giving up vacant possession of the premises, the tenant would normally have to remove its own fixtures and fittings, but if the tenant then leaves anything behind (perhaps cheaper to do so or not worth bothering about) then the repairing obligation extends to those fixtures and fittings (that previously belonged to the tenant).