Landlord and tenant — Rent review — Construction — Meaning of ‘fit for immediate occupation and use’
Landlord and tenant — Rent review clause in lease — Construction — Rejection by Harman J of reliance on the ‘Commercial commonsense’ approach — Nourse LJ’s comments in Philpots (Woking)…
Landlord and tenant– Rent review– Hypothetical lease on same terms and conditions as actual lease– Whether later deed containing options varied lease for purposes of hypothesis
Landlord and tenant — Arbitration in regard to provisions in rent review clause — Arbitration Act 1979, section 2 — Determination of preliminary points of law by the court –…
A business tenant paying an annual rent of £100,000 receives a notice from the landlord proposing a rent of £250,000 for the next rent review period.
A tenant who gets a nasty surprise at rent review may find, to his great relief, that his lease gives him an option to break, exercisable within a month or…
When a rent review clause falls to be construed by the courts, then, more often than not, one party will contend that a literal interpretation would give an unforeseen and…
Where a rent review clause fails to specify the term to be taken by the hypothetical tenant, it is normally assumed that the term will be equivalent to the unexpired…
A rent review clause requires the disregard of T’s improvements, and does so by incorporating section 34 of the 1954 Act.