Code for Leasing Business Premises

Property Week includes reports of more Governmental murmurs of dissatisfaction with the property industry over its lack of use of the Code for Leasing Business Premises. Now, in a recession, is the time for tenants to extract as much as they can from landlords in lease negotiations by arguing for fair, Code-compliant lease drafting. But the Government expresses itself dissatisfied with the Code’s uptake – see Government ‘disappointed’ with implementation of property lease code. This folows on from the publication by the Government of a privately commissioned report on the workings of the 2007 Code for Leasing Business Premises. Click on Monitoring the 2007 Code for Leasing Business Premises to see the report.