Your lease. On your terms.

Break conditions and repair clauses decide more money than the rent ever does. We read them the way a landlord's surveyor will, before you're bound by them.

Extending the lease on a flat is mid-reform law — we'll tell you whether acting now or waiting serves you better.

Tell us what you're trying to do and attach the lease if you have it. You'll have your position and a quote the same working day.

Lease services we cover

From taking a lease on to walking away from one, and the consents in between.

Selling your lease or taking one over: landlord's consent, the licence to assign and a guarantee that doesn't follow you for years.

When the term ends we run the renewal, protected or not, and negotiate the new terms while you keep trading.

Longer terms for business premises, and statutory extensions for leasehold flats, where the premium maths matters as much as the law.

Leaving early: negotiated surrenders, break options exercised correctly and dilapidations kept realistic.

The landlord's consent for alterations, change of use or subletting, keeping your plans lawful and your lease intact.

Review clauses operated and challenged properly, because the drafting, not the market, often decides the rent.

The 80-year cliff

Most leasehold flat owners have a statutory right to extend: the ground rent drops to a peppercorn (nothing), and the freeholder is paid a premium set by a statutory valuation. You can start the day you complete your purchase.

The cliff sits at 80 years. Below that, "marriage value" enters the valuation and the premium jumps, then keeps climbing as the term shrinks. Lenders get cautious at the same point — and buyers know it.

Buying a short-lease flat? The extension strategy belongs inside the purchase — see our residential conveyancing team on what to check before you offer.

The renewal clock

If your tenancy is protected by the 1954 Act, the endgame runs on formal notices, served six to twelve months before the date they name. Get them right and you negotiate from strength; get them wrong and you can hand the landlord the timetable, or the premises.

A landlord can only refuse renewal on set statutory grounds — mainly redevelopment or their own use — and on some must pay you compensation to leave. The new rent is negotiated against the market, not rolled over.

Contracted out? Then there's no automatic right to stay, and the conversation must start even earlier. We'll tell you which lease you hold within a day of reading it.

Leasehold law is being rewritten. Timing is now part of the advice.

The 2024 reforms promise 990-year extensions and an end to marriage value, but they arrive in stages: until the new valuation rules commence, the current ones set the premium. Waiting could save some owners real money; if you're selling, remortgaging or already under 80 years, it's usually the expensive option. We'll tell you which you are.

Senior eyes on the small print

Property and litigation experience together — useful, because lease deals are negotiations with a court option attached.

Partners, solicitors and paralegals who keep your file moving while you get on with life.

Across ReviewSolicitors and Trustpilot — clients who came to us with matters just like yours, and would come back.

Almost always — the lease's alienation clause will say. Where consent can't be unreasonably withheld, the landlord must act reasonably and within a reasonable time. We package the application with everything they're entitled to see, which removes most excuses for delay.

A promise that you'll stand behind your buyer's performance after you assign. The scope is negotiable — we keep it as tight and short-lived as the law allows.

Many business tenancies carry statutory renewal rights unless the lease was contracted out. The difference transforms your negotiating position, so it's the first thing we check.

Sooner rather than later: premiums rise as the term shrinks. We'll set out the realistic cost and whether different timing could save you money.

The landlord's end-of-lease repair claim — routinely overstated. With survey evidence and the right legal limits, schedules usually settle for far less than first demanded, so engage early rather than at the door.

The premium is set by a statutory valuation: the flat's value, the years remaining and the ground rent all feed in, plus professional fees on both sides. Below 80 years, marriage value pushes it up sharply. We'll scope the realistic total, including a surveyor's valuation, before any notice is served.

No — that rule has been abolished; you can claim from the day you complete. If the lease is already short, plan the extension as part of the purchase: it strengthens your mortgage options and your negotiating position on price.

Only on set statutory grounds if your tenancy is protected — most commonly that they intend to redevelop or occupy the premises themselves — and several grounds oblige them to pay you compensation. If your lease was contracted out of the 1954 Act there's no automatic renewal right at all.