Category - retail leases

To what extent do landlords need to inform tenants of their rights when exercising an option to renew their lease?...

We would all agree that in many cases, tenants need protection. A small business owner may have little knowledge of...

If a lessee is in the wrong and has breached the lease resulting in a premature lease termination, you would...

You’ve found the perfect retail space for your business and now it’s time to negotiate a lease. In the second...

How much control do you have, as a lessor, over the type and style of a proposed retail operation when...

We see in retail leases the phrases, “the parties agree to agree on…” and “the parties will discuss and agree...

We live in a time of natural disasters; floods, storms, fires and the like! Often, property is a casualty. In...

The laws which govern commercial tenancy agreements between small retailers and landlords, including shopping centre owners, are being reviewed by...

There’s good ‘practical advice’ here and it’s COVID-19 related. Leases have been extended to match up to negotiated rent deferral...

This month, Russell Zimmerman, former Executive Director of the Australian Retailers Association (ARA) will be joining Australia’s premier provider of...

Victoria has just introduced a Bill that could establish a ‘commencement date’ in a retail lease, in a centre that...

Lease abstraction is one of the biggest administrative burdens in retail leasing. The manual processing of entering key data points...

Another case of poor legislation in South Australia where, (yes unbelievably) there’s a minimum 5-year term of lease. It was...

The South Australian Government began a review of the Retail and Commercial Leases Act in 2014. A Bill has just...