Control of occupancy costs has never been more important. Here we set our 10 Pre-Contact Lease Tips when signing up to a lease subject to a service charge…
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On behalf of a large supermarket chain client we recently reviewed an apportionment issue that arose due to a change of managing agent.
This store was located on a Shopping Park that used a Weighted Floor Area (WFA) apportionment method – the larger the store, the greater the discount to the service charge…
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In the first 3 months of 2022, Assure have recovered £6M of service charge costs for our clients. We categorise all savings that we achieve by type and thought we would highlight a few types that we commonly see…
Assure Saves £6M in Service Charge Costs Q1 2022 Read More »
We recently completed a benchmarking exercise as part of our Spotlight on Distribution Centres. This provided details on comparatives rates in £spf for service charge and insurance…
Returning to Distribution Centre Service Charges Read More »
As part of our initial portfolio review for an office occupier, we identified that the agent was over-budgeting, year after year and yet balancing credits were not issued. Instead, significant sums were being retained for unspecified future projects…
Recovering Excessive Reserves at Lease Expiry Read More »
Our supermarket client occupies a large distribution centre under a single lease beginning in 1996.
The insurance premium increased to £359,000 following a 38% uplift in the Buildings Declared Value.
Our insurance team requested a copy of the Reinstatement Cost Assessment for further investigation…
Assure intervention secures £130,000 reduction in insurance premium Read More »
