All posts tagged "Upward / Downward rent review"
Institutional investors and upward/downward rent review
(2026 Apr: LinkedIn) – Upward / downward rent review will not, in my view, be an issue for institutional commercial property investors judicious in buying. Unlike private investors whose time-horizon ranges from personal pension to generational, with rarely any wider responsibility, institutional investor decision-makers are more likely responsible for hundreds/thousands of people whom they are […]
Outside LTA54 and upward/downward rent review
(2025 Jul) – Although Bill 2025 applies to rent reviews in leases outside the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, more leases granted outside LTA54 is suggested as a likely consequence of upward/downward rent review. The only times a lease can be granted outside LTA54 is on a new letting, or by agreement with an existing […]
Up in arms!
(2025 Jul) – Inevitably, the powerful landlord lobby – institutional investors, pension funds, insurance companies, REITS, quoted and major property companies, their advisers, and likely thousands of anonymous private investors – are concerned about the proposal to ban upward only rent reviews and especially the lack of consultation. But, some 30 years ago, when the […]
Upward only rent review – the end is nigh!
Jul 2025 – 1.0 Buried deep within the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill 2025 published on 11 July 2025 (“Bill 2025”) is, in the word of one commentator, a seismic proposal that will, if as and when the Bill becomes law, affect all landlords and tenants of commercial property. Despite buried deep, pages 322-329 […]