Commercial Lawyers in Burpengary East

Make-good is your obligation to return the premises to a defined condition at the end of the lease. In a warehouse that can mean removing racking, mezzanines, cool rooms, cabling, signage and any hardstand or slab modification, and repainting or repairing the structure. It is often the single largest unbudgeted cost of exiting a tenancy. We negotiate the standard down where possible and, at minimum, make sure you know the exposure before signing. This is general information about how the law works, not advice about your lease.

Usually there is a clawback. Incentives are commonly documented in a separate deed providing that if the lease ends early through your default or an assignment, some or all of the incentive becomes repayable, sometimes on an un-amortised basis. That converts a benefit into a debt at the worst possible moment. We read the incentive deed with the lease and tell you exactly what triggers repayment.

Under many industrial leases the tenant covenants are drafted broadly enough to capture pre-existing conditions unless carved out. Before signing, it is worth establishing the site's previous use and negotiating an appropriate carve-out and, where warranted, a baseline condition report. This should be raised before the lease is executed, because it cannot be fixed afterwards. We do not advise on the environmental status of a particular site without the searches.

No. Catton Roderick services Burpengary East from its Caboolture office at Unit 3, 9 East Street, Caboolture QLD 4510, a short drive north on the Bruce Highway, open Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 5:00pm. We also have offices at Level 1, 133 Redcliffe Parade, Redcliffe and at Regatta 1 Business Centre, 2 Innovation Pkwy, Birtinya. Leases and estate documents can be emailed ahead so the appointment is spent on negotiation strategy.

It can. Industrial permitted-use clauses are often drafted narrowly around the tenant's activity at signing, which means adding a production process, a retail counter or different stored materials requires landlord consent. If your business plan anticipates change, the clause should be drafted broadly enough at the outset. We raise this as part of every industrial lease review, because it is negotiable at the start and effectively fixed afterwards.

Generally not. Queensland regulates retail shop leases by statute under the Retail Shop Leases Act 1994 (Qld), and a warehouse, distribution or manufacturing tenancy in an industrial estate usually sits outside that regime. Whether a particular tenancy is caught is a question of fact rather than an assumption, and it is worth checking, because it changes what disclosure and protections apply. We look at that as part of the review.

Cost depends on the documents involved and what you need done with them, and the right way to get an accurate answer is to raise it with us directly when you call. We publish no figure here. Phone 1300 209 997 or use the contact page and put the question at the outset, before any work is agreed.