The property
A smaller commercial holding in north London at the end of a ten year lease.
The brief
The landlord, an estate owner with a portfolio of similar holdings, needed the tenant’s repairing obligations enforced without the costs of the claim swallowing its value. Dilapidations work has to be scaled to the holding: the same protocol, the same rigour, proportionate effort.
What we did
- Inspect at termAgainst the lease and its licence to alter.
- Schedule to the protocolA Terminal Schedule of Dilapidations prepared to the Dilapidations Protocol.
- Reference and costEvery breach referenced to its clause and individually costed.
- QuantifyA Quantified Demand covering works, fees, schedule costs, loss of rent and VAT, on a document scaled to the size of the dispute.
The RICS standard
Dilapidations claims are governed by the RICS professional standard Dilapidations in England and Wales, alongside the Dilapidations Protocol. Damages are capped under section 18(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 at the loss in value of the landlord’s interest, which is why every item has to be evidenced and costed.
Smaller properties deserve the same discipline as landmark buildings; the difference is proportion, not quality.
