Landlords

We work closely with our landlord clients to help them manage risk in their strategic decisions. Many of our landlord clients own high value buildings across the UK’s major cities, and we have a track record of delivering acquisition, lease, and finance transactions for landlords on timetable and for a genuine fixed fee.

Services

Our commercial lease solicitors work with landlords at every stage of their property journey, from acquiring sites to lease renewals and financing the next venture. We take a practical, business-oriented approach, ensuring we understand the specific nature of your operations and projects and to offer bespoke, measured advice. Our commitment is to provide a seamless and transparent lease process with no hidden costs or unwelcome surprises at the end. That’s our promise to you.

Pre-contract negotiations

We work with landlords from the start of their commercial leasing journey, including pre-contract negotiations such as heads of terms and licences for access. These pre-contract agreements help build a framework for future contracts and agreements. Our services include:

Replies to commercial property standard enquiries and additional enquiries
Heads of terms
Confidentiality agreements
Exclusivity agreements
Licences for access

Granting leases

Landlords choose to work with Newmanor Law as we are experts in commercial property leases and lease renewals. Our commercial lease solicitors work with landlords on a variety of property types including office, retail and industrial leases, for which we provide the following services:

Agreements for leases and underleases
New leases
Lease renewals
Leases which take effect when existing leases expire (reversionary leases)
Leases of landlords’ interests in property subject to existing leases (leases of the reversion)

Sub-leases
Office leases
Retail leases
Industrial/warehouse leases
Telecommunications leases
Excluding security of tenure

Lease management

We offer lease management to all our landlord clients, supporting their business ventures and managing their assets. Our focus is to maximise performance and returns whilst maintaining your lease and adhering to relevant compliance. Our areas of expertise are:

Authorised guarantee agreements
Licences to assign, underlet, alter, change use and charge
Deeds of variation, assignment, release and rectification
Surrenders
Rent deposits
Lease summary
Lease reports

Terminating a protected tenancy
Wayleave agreements for the installation of telecommunications cabling and equipment
Side letters
Break notices to terminate leases
Rent reviews
Dilapidations

Acquiring/disposing of property

The commercial property solicitors at Newmanor Law aid landlords in acquiring property as well as disposing of. We work with our clients to provide commercial property conveyancing services, including ensuring all legal documents such as stamp duty, land registry application and contracts are all submitted on time. Our commercial property conveyancing services include:

Freehold, leasehold and unregistered property
Acquisitions/disposals of the whole or part of a property
Contracts for the disposal of land with leaseback, land with vacant possession and land subject to leases
Conditional contracts
Transfers of property
Deeds of covenant

Acquisitions from companies in administration or liquidation or from mortgagees in possession
Reports on title
Property searches
Indemnity insurance
Stamp duty land tax
Land Registry applications

Management of property

At Newmanor Law we work in partnership with landlords to manage their commercial property assets. We help clients with things such as rights of way, restrictive covenants and licences to occupy. Our commercial property management services include:

Easements such as rights of way or rights of light
Preventing acquisition of right of way by prescription
Licences to occupy
Wayleave agreements

Restrictive covenants
Statutory declarations to support claims for adverse possession
Statutory declarations for rights acquired over a period of time (prescriptive rights) e.g. right of way

Development of property

If you’re looking to expand your portfolio by developing land, the commercial property development solicitors at Newmanor Law specialise in supporting every element of the development process. We support landlords as they seek to secure land, as well as ensuring development agreements and planning agreements are robust and fit for purpose. Our development work incorporates:

Development agreements
Put and call option agreements
Promotion agreements
Collaboration agreements
Pre-emption agreements

Overage and clawback
Leases of airspace for the development of additional floors
Planning obligations, such as s106 agreements and unilateral undertakings

Finance

What our landlord clients say...

One of our clients has recently retained Newmanor Law to run the lettings on their portfolio and we have been impressed with the speed of response, and the commercial approach. Karen is knowledgeable, very personable and a practical property lawyer who seeks to find solutions to problems rather than create them like some solicitors seem to and I would have no hesitation in recommending her to other clients who need legal advice in this particular area.

Phil Frenay
Partner, Crossland Otter Hunt

Karen, Edmund and the team at Newmanor have again provided an efficient and professional service to close what was a challenging lease transaction. We could not recommend Newmanor more highly.

Josh Wilson
Fletcher King

Why choose our commercial property lease solicitors?

Commercial Property Focus

Unlike many of our competitors that are full-service law firms, our sole focus is on commercial property. Backed by decades of experience in the intricacies of commercial property law, the Newmanor team is primed to deliver best in class legal expertise for landlords with commercial interests.

Genuine Fixed Fees

Unlike most of our competitors we work based on genuine fixed fees linked to a definitive scope of work. We do not provide estimates or quotes which lead to ambush billing on the eve of completion. We can do this because we understand the transactions we are working on. This frees up our commercial property lease solicitors to focus on getting the deal done on time and to budget.

Push and Tell

We proactively take ownership of your deals, pushing them forward and telling you what we have done. You will always know where we are on your deals and can take comfort that we are doing everything we can to ensure transactions run smoothly.

Small Firm, Big Team

We are a boutique firm with a team of 14 – comprising legal assistants, paralegals, associates, partners and consultants – which is larger than the commercial property departments and related finance teams of most competitor solicitors.

One Team, No Silos

We work as a team to get things done – there is no buck-passing between departments.

We listen

Our commercial lease solicitors actively seek your feedback, and we will action the points you identify.

Genuine Client Care

Our commercial lease lawyers are promoted for caring about you and your business; not billing the life out of you. As part of this, we invest a lot of time with all clients getting to know them and trying to leverage our network to help them in any way we can. Your success is our success.

Excellent Service

Every solicitor every time – We are committed to ensuing every one of our team members delivers excellent client service and this is enshrined in our Service Pledge.

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Ready to do things differently?

If you are ready for a fresh approach to commercial property leases, reach out to us.

+44 (0)20 7464 4080

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