Our business leases integrate years of experience of letting commercial property with a comprehensive legal framework that provides excellent protection for the landlord and a wide range of options to suit almost all requirements. All the templates include the provisions you would expect as standard, such as one for a guarantor, and each comes with full guidance notes that explain your options.
Let a unit on an industrial estate such as a workshop, factory, depot or warehouse.
The lease includes the use of shared services on the park or estate, such as security, access roads, signs and parking and many other practical points.
This is a comprehensive yet uncomplicated business premises lease.
Let a self contained office building, or office space or storage space above a shop or other workspace.
The property should not share services with other properties.
There is no provision for a management or service charge.
Let one or more rooms in a multi-tenanted building such as an office building or a mixed-use property.
The document includes:
For a similar document with simpler provisions and no service charge provision, use Offices above shop.
Let the whole of an office building to a single tenant for business purposes. The document includes:
There is no provision for a management or service charge.
This land lease can be used for letting any type of land for any business purpose, whether a brownfield site for plant or equipment storage or as a scrap yard, or urban space as a farmers' marketplace.
The land may contain buildings or items of plant and machinery, but if the buildings on the land are the main feature, use Office: self contained building instead.
The lease template includes a draft agreement for a security deposit.
Let a single shop or retail unit in a multi-tenant parade owned by the same landlord.
The document includes:
This lease does not cover additional space used by the tenant to live in. Choose Shop in parade with residential space instead.
Let a shop or other unit that has a flat or maisonette attached in which the tenant can live:
The document includes:
If provision for residential space not required, use Shop in parade.
Let a self contained lock-up shop that does not require provisions for service charge recovery:
Let a property with a commercial kitchen such as a café, delicatessen, restaurant or fast food outlet:
The agreement includes:
This agreement does not cover additional space let for residential use by the tenant. For that, see Shop in parade with residential space or Pub or restaurant with flat over.
Let a pub or licensed restaurant that has a flat or maisonette above for occupation by the tenant and his/her family.
The agreement includes:
Let a stand-alone light industrial unit such as a workshop, garage, barn, factory, hangar or warehouse for any purpose.
The leased premises should not share services with other properties.
There is no provision for a management or service charge.
Use this agreement specifically for letting any land used for parking vehicles: whether temporary and informal, or permanent and formally marked.
The agreement includes:
Agreement to exclude security of tenure whilst complying with the Regulatory Reform Regulations 2003.
A simple deed of variation between a landlord and a tenant to change the terms of any lease.
Use this document to transfer a lease between two tenants:
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In a lease, the business of the tenant is less important than the type of property being let. So our agreements differ with each other through the inclusion or exclusion of terms relating to features of the building, such as those dealing with rights to display signs, rather than by who the tenant may be.
Choose the right lease agreement by selecting the one whose description most closely matches that of your premises.
These agreements create leases as defined in the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (which has since been updated many times). Account has also been taken of:
In balancing the codes with the law and the interest of the landlord, we have followed the codes where reasonable, but have preferred the interest of the landlord where there may be a difference.
Traditionally, it is the landlord who puts their draft to his proposed tenant. As the owner of the property or the land they can decide the terms on which they let it.
Statute law redresses this imbalance of power to some extent. However, our leases been drawn to prefer the interest of the landlord rather than the tenant.
A lease contains many terms. We mention here only those few about which you are most likely to be concerned. If you want more precise information as to the contents of a particular document, please ask us.
We provide the words to include or exclude terms relating to the following in every lease:
These are full agreements, drawn to a higher standard than most solicitors would provide. Despite the breadth of options we provide, editing is straightforward, regardless of whether you have prior experience or not of this type of legal agreement.
We provide extensive drafting notes explaining each paragraph, and we send you a guide on how to deal generally with editing and completion.
We also sell a second version of most leases, for professional property developers, solicitors and surveyors. Each contains some additional paragraphs covering more technical points, such as a draft authorised guarantee agreement and a draft agreement for a security deposit.
Unless otherwise stated, every lease is for a term for any period up to and including seven years. Provided the term is seven years or less, it does not need to be registered at the Land Registry.
Leases over seven years must be registered and stamp duty land tax will apply.