Rent Review Dispute - Part 10 - Lease Interpretation
I have never read a lease whose review procedure enables an interpretation to be decided in isolation, although, in principle, there is nothing to…
Rent Review Dispute Resolution
Rent Review Dispute Resolution - Part 9
When drafting a lease containing a rent review to open market rent, whether better for a third-party for dispute resolution to be an arbitrator or an…
Rent Review Dispute Resolution – Part 8 – Statement of Agreed Facts
A statement contains everything not in dispute. Important for an arbitrator, less so for an IE, is to agree on areas. Although an arbitrator can…
Expert Witness Mistakes and How To Benefit From Them
It is not compulsory for surveyors to act as expert witnesses, but generally, chartered surveyors do. I act as an expert witness where I consider my…
Rent Review Dispute Resolution - Part 6
An Independent Expert (“IE”) is a valuation surveyor whose opinion of rent the parties have covenanted to accept. Known as a determination, it is a…
Rent Review Dispute Resolution - Part 5
Even when one or both parties are unrepresented during negotiations, in my experience, both parties are likely to instruct surveyors to respectively…
Rent Review Dispute Resolution - Part 4
A third party can charge costs from the date of appointment, but how much depends upon the minimum and what the third party has done. There is no set…
Rent Review Dispute Resolution - Part 3
Wanted on the application form is the address of the property including a brief description, trading position, the use class, lease date and the…
Rent Review Dispute Resolution - Part 2
Invariably, tenants do not see it like that. And neither do their surveyors, whose stance is that if the landlord’s surveyor does not provide…
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