INSIGHTS

CPI is an acronym which can stand for many things. A quick dictionary search shows for those in the motoring industry it can mean Crash

Default Interest on late Rent payments Any good Lease should provide that the Landlord can charge interest on any monies that are in arrears. Commonly

REGISTRATION – How we approach it. Tenants often get very excited about getting their Lease registered on the Title to the Land, especially in the

A Business name as Lessee ? Often we receive instructions to prepare a Lease where the Lessee (Tenant) is shown as a Business Name. Many

When you as a Landlord enter into a Lease Bureau Lease, you quite reasonably expect that in a worst-case scenario such as when the tenant

In this Lease Insight, I want to reproduce a letter that I wrote a while ago in response to a Landlords question about who was

LICENCE OR LEASE? When a landlord wants to give a tenant a right to occupy commercial premises, it can be tempting to try and avoid

Varying the terms of a current Lease A Lease is a document that sets out the terms of an agreement between two parties and locks

Should I charge my tenant GST on Outgoings? This is still a frequently asked question and the reason is probably that the actual answer (which

BEWARE OF THE MONTHLY TENANCY – It may be longer than you think We have mentioned this aspect of the Retail Shop Leases Act in the

When does the Retail & Commercial Leases Act apply? Parliamentary draftsmen (sorry! draftspersons) who are the people who draft the legislation for Parliamentarians to consider,