Repair covenants, service charges, break clauses, alienation and security of tenure: the five places where English commercial leases quietly transfer risk to tenants — and what to ask for instead.
In Victoria, the Retail Leases Act 2003 overrides your lease: ratchet clauses are void, land tax can’t be passed to you, and short terms trigger a statutory minimum. Here’s how to check yours.
Irritancy instead of forfeiture, automatic renewal by tacit relocation, real rights from 1449, and no LTA 1954: why English assumptions fail in Scotland — and how to spot English boilerplate in a Scottish lease.