Our break clause is in eight months and the last time we looked at the lease was the day we signed it.
Occupiers lose money in three predictable places: break clauses missed, dilapidations claims accepted, and service charges never checked. All three are avoidable with a diary and somebody who acts.
Dinmore Bell reduces occupancy cost for tenants: exercising break clauses correctly and on time, challenging service charges, and negotiating dilapidations before the landlord’s schedule sets the anchor. Lease surrenders and registration are handled by instructed solicitors, and dilapidations schedules by chartered surveyors.
How we own it
Break clauses and reviews
Every date in the register with the conditions attached. Most breaks fail on a technicality, not a decision.
Dilapidations
The schedule challenged line by line, with a costed position agreed before you hand back the keys.
Service charge and rates
Apportionments, caps and sinking funds checked against the lease; rates assessments challenged across every site.
Where specialists come in
Lease surrenders, assignments and registration are handled by instructed solicitors; building surveys and dilapidations schedules by chartered surveyors. We set the strategy and control both.
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Most break clauses fail on a condition nobody read, not on a decision anyone took.
Where nine per cent of your revenue goes
Contract value rarely leaks in a single expensive event. It leaks quietly, through renewal dates nobody owns.
- How can an occupier reduce its property costs?
- Usually through three things: exercising break clauses correctly and on time, challenging service charges that were never scrutinised, and negotiating dilapidations before the landlord’s schedule sets the anchor. All three turn on dates and evidence held in advance.
- Who handles the legal and surveying work?
- Lease surrenders, assignments and registration are handled by instructed solicitors; building surveys and dilapidations schedules by chartered surveyors. We set the strategy and control both.
- Why do break clauses fail so often?
- Because they fail on a condition nobody read, not on a decision anyone took. Vacant possession, rent paid up to date and reinstatement obligations are all capable of invalidating a notice that was served perfectly on time.