Central London office, EC2
Floor-by-floor Schedule of Condition supporting a tenant's lease renewal negotiation on a multi-storey EC2 office building.
- Property type
- Multi-storey commercial office
- Location
- City of London, EC2
- Instruction
- Schedule of Condition at lease renewal
- Client
- Sitting tenant, professional services occupier
- Floors
- Five floors plus roof terrace
- Deliverable
- Floor-by-floor lease-ready schedule
Overview
A professional services occupier with five floors in a City of London office building was approaching the end of their lease and intended to renew. They instructed CBC to prepare a fresh Schedule of Condition referenced in the renewal lease, not the original, which dated back to the 2000s and no longer reflected the documented condition.
The brief
The original Schedule of Condition had been prepared at first letting. In the intervening years the tenant had completed substantial fit-out works, the building had been re-clad externally, and several mechanical and electrical installations had been replaced. The renewal Schedule of Condition needed to reflect the building as it now stood.
The renewal had been agreed in principle but the precise wording of the repairing covenant was still being negotiated. A clean, defensible new schedule was essential.
What CBC did
An experienced specialist surveyor inspected each occupied floor, the common parts, the demised plant areas and the roof terrace. The schedule recorded condition floor-by-floor with separate sections for shared and demised plant. Cross-referenced photography supported every observation. We liaised directly with the tenant's solicitor on the exact wording of the lease reference.
- 01Floor-by-floor inspection across five demised floors
- 02Separate documentation of shared and demised M&E plant
- 03External envelope record (post-recladding)
- 04Roof terrace and high-level externals
- 05Solicitor liaison on the renewal lease's repairing covenant wording
Why it mattered
On a multi-storey City of London letting, dilapidations exposure at the next lease end can run well into seven figures. A renewal Schedule of Condition prepared properly, with cross-referenced photography and floor-level granularity, is the single document most likely to defuse that exposure if and when the next dilapidations claim arrives.
Why renewal schedules are different
Renewal schedules are routinely overlooked. Tenants assume the original schedule still governs; landlords assume the tenant has accepted current condition by remaining in occupation. Neither is a safe assumption. A fresh schedule at renewal is the correct legal and evidential answer.
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