Commercial Surveyors in Newcastle
Assisting Tenants In Newcastle
I specialise in assisting tenants at the End of the Lease when a landlord serves a Terminal Dilapidations schedule. Landlords have the backing of major and specialist surveying practices to serve Terminal dilapidation schedules. These often come out of the blue and at a time when a company is re-organising, moving premises or down-sizing. The last thing they need is a hefty charge to re-instate the premises they may have occupied for only 12 months or 12 years!
What Are Dilapidations?
When you first lease a business premises there will be contract terms set out between the landlord and the tenant. These are the lease clauses. These clauses include the tenant’s obligation to decorate; keep the premises in good repair; cleaning; and procedures for allowing alterations to the premises. A failure to comply with the above clauses will result in a dilapidations liability.
At the end of the lease your landlord will often employ a specialist Building Surveyor who, acting for the landlord, will professionally and impartially undertake a survey of the soon to be vacated premises and will check for breaches of the above obligations and prepare a schedule of dilapidations establishing what works are required to comply with the lease terms.
The landlords always appear to have an army of experts, solicitors and surveyors seeking damages from the tenant at the end of a lease. Whilst the surveyor should act impartially, he is acting for the landlord whilst the tenant will be paying for his services in the dilapidation charges. This is where AHBSS comes in.
What the tenant needs is to terminate the lease with the least cost and inconvenience to himself.
Call or e-mail me to help you through this headache and save money!
