Dilapidations Advice

Tenderleaf Consultancy understands the complexities of dilapidations and can provide expert advice to both landlords and tenants in respect of liabilities and options regarding potential remedial works.  Essentially, Dilapidations deals with the necessary remedial works required to a leased property and can be defined as items of disrepair and breaches of covenant to repair and redecorate a building in accordance with the lease clauses.

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It should be remembered that dilapidations and the potential related financial implications are as important cost issues as the rent,  service charge items and rates when seeking new premises.

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Tenants should seek the advice of a Chartered Surveyor to limit or avoid a dilapidations claim before entering into a lease or when a Schedule of Dilapidations is served.

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We regularly act on behalf of either Landlord or Tenant in providing dilapidations advice. Our schedules will be tailored to the client’s specific requirements and structured in a format compliant with the necessary protocols to ensure that it is enforceable in a Court of law.

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Accurately recording the condition of premises before acquiring a lease limits the repairing liability contained therein.  It is strongly recommended that all tenants protect themselves from repairing obligations before they commit to the lease.

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Attaching a Schedule of Condition to the lease (particularly an assignment of a lease) can ensure that a tenant does not have a liability for putting the building back into a better condition than it was initially.