If a lessee is in the wrong and has breached the lease resulting in a premature lease termination, you would expect the lessor would be able to claw back its...
Tag - retail leases
You’ve found the perfect retail space for your business and now it’s time to negotiate a lease. In the second part of this ‘How to Retail‘ Zelman...
How much control do you have, as a lessor, over the type and style of a proposed retail operation when it comes to a lease transfer? You’ve leased a shop to...
We see in retail leases the phrases, “the parties agree to agree on…” and “the parties will discuss and agree on…” But what if they don’t agree? How can a...
We live in a time of natural disasters; floods, storms, fires and the like! Often, property is a casualty. In our business, it leads to loss of stock, damage...
The laws which govern commercial tenancy agreements between small retailers and landlords, including shopping centre owners, are being reviewed by the McGowan...
There’s good ‘practical advice’ here and it’s COVID-19 related. Leases have been extended to match up to negotiated rent deferral periods. But what about...
This month, Russell Zimmerman, former Executive Director of the Australian Retailers Association (ARA) will be joining Australia’s premier provider of retail...
Victoria has just introduced a Bill that could establish a ‘commencement date’ in a retail lease, in a centre that hasn’t yet been built! Sounds a bit looney...
Lease abstraction is one of the biggest administrative burdens in retail leasing. The manual processing of entering key data points from leases is a pain point...
Another case of poor legislation in South Australia where, (yes unbelievably) there’s a minimum 5-year term of lease. It was instigated to ‘protect tenants’...
The South Australian Government began a review of the Retail and Commercial Leases Act in 2014. A Bill has just been tabled proposing some 28 amendments to the...