The trigger moment

Lease expiring or rent review coming up? Your options

Direct answer

When your lease is ending or a rent review is approaching, you have more options than renew-or-move: you can negotiate, relocate, or have a long-term partner acquire a better-suited building (or your current one) and lease it to you. Acting 12–24 months early gives you the most leverage.

A lease expiry or a market rent review is a pressure point — but it's also a rare moment of leverage, if you use it early. The businesses that do best are the ones that start planning long before the clock runs down.

Key facts

Trigger: Lease expiry or market rent review
Best lead time: 12–24 months
Options: Renew · relocate · partner acquires or builds
If your landlord is selling: We can be the buyer who keeps you
Outgrown the space?: Use the moment to right-size
Goal: Swap uncertainty for secure tenure

The timeline — and why early matters

Leverage is a function of time. With 12–24 months up your sleeve you can genuinely test the market, negotiate from strength, and explore alternatives. With three months left, you're a captive renewal and everyone knows it.

Map your key dates now: lease expiry, option exercise windows, and any rent-review dates. Those dates are your planning horizon.

Each of your options

Renew and negotiate — Stay put on better terms. Early, informed negotiation — with real alternatives in hand — is what moves the number.
Relocate — Move to premises that suit you better. Worth testing, but moving has cost and disruption, so weigh it properly.
Have a partner acquire your building — If your landlord wants out, a long-term owner can buy the building and give you the secure tenure and fair reviews you want.
Have a partner acquire or build a better one — If you've outgrown the space, this is the moment to brief a partner to source or build the right facility and lease it to you.

How a partner helps at this moment

If your landlord is selling, or simply isn't reinvesting, a permanent-hold owner changes the dynamic: we can acquire the building and offer you the long tenure, fair reviews and capex commitment an absentee landlord won't. If the building no longer fits, we can acquire or build one that does.

Either way you swap uncertainty for a long-term partnership — at exactly the moment you have the leverage to set the terms.

What to prepare

Your key dates: expiry, options, review dates.
Your real requirement: is the current space still right, or are you outgrowing it?
Your leverage: what credible alternatives can you put on the table?
Your timeframe: how much runway do you have before you must decide?

Common questions

My landlord is selling the building I lease — what can I do?

You may have more standing than you think, and a long-term buyer can be good news. We can acquire the building and offer you secure tenure, fair reviews and a landlord who reinvests — turning a worry into a partnership. Talk to us early.

How early should I start before a rent review?

Twelve to twenty-four months. Early planning lets you gather evidence, line up alternatives and negotiate from strength rather than accepting whatever number lands.

Can you take on my current building and re-lease it to me?

If it suits both sides, yes. If your landlord wants to exit, we can acquire the premises and grant you a long-term lease on fair, transparent terms.

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