Dilapidations are breaches of covenant to repair a building contained in a lease. Such breaches can take many forms, but a leaking roof or a broken window are two obvious examples.

Dilapidations are often wrongly considered by tenants as insignificant in comparison with rent, rates and service charges when they are seeking new premises. However, the liability to repair can have serious financial implications and therefore the tenant must seek advice from a Chartered Surveyor on opportunities to avoid, limit or mitigate dilapidations before entering into a lease, or when a schedule of dilapidations has been served upon them.

Leasing Experience

At 7formation we have 30 years of commercial building experience and have carried out dilapidation works for many major retail chains on a national basis regardless of how small the requirement might be. Often property managers only go where their agent tells them because there is a tie-up between the outgoing and the incoming tenants deals.

Our company directors have the ability to diagnose the best solution from the client’s point of view rather than simply quote for the work after it has been specified.