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Tenant-side · Full lease lifecycle · New Zealand
One adviser across all six stages of your lease, from the premises you choose to the day you hand back the keys.
Your lease is one of your largest fixed costs. The decisions you make at signing show up again at every rent review, every renewal, and at exit. We advise tenants across the full lifecycle, so the cost and the risk stay under control the whole way through.
One Adviser Across The Full Lease Lifecycle
Typical Savings Per Negotiation
Never Landlords, Never Agents Who Also Act For Landlords
How we work
What it covers
Most tenants get help with one moment: signing the lease. Then the advice stops. But the lease keeps costing money for years after the ink dries. Rent reviews. OPEX increases. A renewal nobody planned for. A make-good bill at the end that was never modelled.
Commercial lease advisory services means having one adviser across all of it. Someone who sees the whole lifecycle, connects each decision to the next, and keeps your occupancy cost under control from the first site visit to the final exit.
That is the work below, split into six services. Each one stands on its own. Together they cover the entire life of your lease.
The six services
A lease isn't one decision. It's six. Each stage costs or earns you money, and the choices you make early show up again at year three, year five, and at exit.
We identify and secure premises that fit your business model and your numbers, not just what's on the market this month. The right site at the right terms sets the cost base for the whole lease.
Rent, incentives, review structure, guarantees, protections. We run the negotiation against the landlord's agent and lock in terms that protect your business from day one.
We manage the run from signed lease to opening day: design, consents, landlord contributions and timing, so fitout costs and delays don't eat the deal you negotiated.
Reviews, renewals, OPEX audits and every critical date, handled. Most overpayments happen quietly between deals. We catch them before they cost you.
When rent, space or performance no longer fit, we reset the terms. Rent reductions, regears, surrenders and re-sizing, negotiated from the tenant's side of the table.
OUR APPROACH
A low starting rent means little if the review structure is aggressive, the OPEX is uncapped, or the make-good clause is open-ended. These costs are invisible at signing. They show up later, one increase at a time.
Advising across the full lifecycle means we price the whole commitment, including the costs that only show up later. We have seen tenants save $20k to $100k or more per negotiation once the real cost over the term is on the table.
Whose side we're on
Agents act for landlords. Lawyers focus on the legal wording. We focus on the commercial outcome, on the tenant's side of the table and nowhere else.
That single rule changes every piece of advice on this page. There is no other client whose interests we have to balance against yours.
Who we work with
Tenants negotiate rarely. Landlords and agents do it daily. That gap costs real money across rent, terms, incentives and exit options, and it widens with every site you run.
Premises that work for service flow, kitchen consents and trade hours.
Right-size the network. Exit weak sites. Restructure leases.
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Common questions
It's advice that runs across the whole life of a commercial lease, not just the deal. That covers finding premises, negotiating terms, managing the lease while you're in it, restructuring when things change, and exiting cleanly at the end. The aim is to keep your occupancy cost and your risk under control the whole way through.
No. We act for tenants only. We never represent landlords, and we never act for agents who also act for landlords. There's no other client whose interests we'd have to weigh against yours.
The earlier the better, but any stage works. Before you sign a new lease, ahead of a rent review or renewal, when a site stops performing, or when you're planning an exit. If property has become a distraction from running your business, that's usually the signal.
No. Signing is one of six stages. A lot of money is won or lost after the lease starts, through reviews, OPEX and renewals. We work across all six stages, and most clients stay with us well beyond the first deal.
Yes, across New Zealand and the East Coast of Australia. We work with single-site operators and multi-site businesses running premises in several cities.
Signing, reviewing, restructuring or exiting, a short call tells you where the cost and the risk sit. No obligation, no pressure.
