26 September 2018
Imogen Jones
Real Estate Q&A: Back to Basics – Leases
In this alert Imogen Jones goes back to basics and answers the following ten lease questions that you should know the answer to but were afraid to ask!
- Can a lease be backdated?
- Can a lease term commence on a date preceding the date of the lease?
- Can a lease term commence on a date following the date of the lease?
- Is a lease of the reversion the same as a reversionary lease?
- Can the rent commencement be a date preceding the date of the lease?
- Can you grant a lease longer than your own?
- What happens if you grant an option to renew which does not expressly exclude the option to renew in the renewal lease?
- Can you have an option to renew in a lease which is contracted out of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954?
- Can you have a landlord’s break right in a lease which is not contracted out of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954?
- Can you extend the term/demise of a lease by a deed of variation?