... by RealService Ltd and whose owners permitted access to the financial performance results. This meant that the properties belong to only three landlords, all UK REITs that care sufficiently about occupier satisfaction to commission studies. Thus the findings might not apply to all commercial properties...

.... These are: Notices; Invalidity of notices; Lease renewals; Dilapidation’s and repairing obligations; Assignment and subletting, change of use and alterations; Landlord and Tenants (Covenants) Act 1995; Side letters and variations of lease; Surrender; Forfeiture; Commercial rent arrears...

...Malcolm John Dowden Purpose – This legal update examines recent decisions on the security of tenure given by Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 to business tenants, and asks whether it is time to revisit or remove a piece of legislation that was drafted to deal with the consequences of war damage...

...Stephanie Rozelle Yates; Elaine M. Worzala; Malcolm Dowden; Emma Humphreys Purpose Difficult economic and trading conditions make lease break options a point of significant legal tension between commercial landlords and tenants. For a tenant, the ability to break a lease provides a means...

...Malcolm Dowden Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the practical difficulties resulting from the UK Court of Appeal's recent guidance on the effect of anti‐avoidance provisions in the Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995. Design/methodology/approach The paper analyses...

... and/or other concession. It is argued that it will often be rational for the landlord to make a rental concession in these circumstances and a model that identifies a theory‐forecasted concession level for landlords is developed. However, the bargaining process will often cause deviation from an equilibrium...