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!

1. Can a lease be backdated?
2. Can a lease term commence on a date preceding the date of the lease?
3. Can a lease term commence on a date following the date of the lease?
4. Is a lease of the reversion the same as a reversionary lease?
5. Can the rent commencement be a date preceding the date of the lease?
6. Can you grant a lease longer than your own?
7. What happens if you grant an option to renew which does not expressly exclude the option to renew in the renewal lease?
8. Can you have an option to renew in a lease which is contracted out of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954?
9. Can you have a landlord’s break right in a lease which is not contracted out of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954?
10. Can you extend the term/demise of a lease by a deed of variation?

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