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Commercial
We have a wide knowledge of smaller scale, commercial property in and around the South Manchester and North Cheshire areas and would be delighted to offer advice and assistance on a broad range of matters - whether you are an owner, investor or tenant.
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REVIEWS/LANDLORD & TENANT RENT
REVIEWS/LANDLORD & TENANT We are often asked to advise in connection with lease renewals. Very often a little forward planning can be of great benefit, particularly if a tenant can identify alternative premises, in the event that the landlord is unreasonable. ARBITRATIONS/
INDEPENDENT EXPERTS G Philip Wilson FRICS, a Consultant to this practice, is on the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Panel of Arbitrators and Independent Experts and has over 30 years experience in valuation. SURVEYS
AND VALUATIONS BUSINESS
RATES APPEALS The effect of any reduction might well be marginalised by Transitional Relief in the first year or so but of course, any reduction secured would benefit your business for the next five years until the next Re-valuation. You would be well advised to be wary of Rating Cowboys - such that you may have seen as the subject of various media reports. Pay no money, whether fees or expenses up front. With ourselves, for example and ignoring vat, our charging basis is £200 + 5% of the reduction in the Rateable Value and you are only invoiced once the case has been settled. CONDITION
REPORTS A landlord or tenant may commission a condition report at the start of a new commercial lease to identify the standard of repair and decoration before occupation commences such that, if you are a landlord, you will be able to compare that standard with the property at the end of the lease, and if necessary, seek compensation or other remedy from the tenant. Equally, of course, if you are that tenant, you should not have to repair the property to a higher standard that was your liability under the terms of the lease. DILAPIDATIONS
SCHEDULES We can prepare schedules of dilapidation for both landlords and tenants, to identify the wants of repair under the terms of a lease or to counter the unreasonable demands of a landlord. AGRICULTURAL
G Philip Wilson FRICS, a Consultant to this practice, is based is the South Lake District area and deals with agricultural valuation work on a daily basis, acting for various specialist clients as well as being a member of the Tenant Farmers Association. PLANT
AND MACHINERY AND BUSINESS VALUATION This is a highly specialist field and Spencer therefore covers a quite broad geographical area, throughout the north west and midlands of the country. EXPERT
WITNESS REPORTS Recent reforms of the way we must give evidence in such cases, commonly referred to as the 'Woolf Reforms', were intended to improve the speed and fairness of the system and to reduce unnecessary litigation. We are now often asked to act in the capacity of 'Single Joint Expert', whereby our advice (which always should have been intended to help the Court arrive at the right decision rather than offer a more partisan view) is now effectively commissioned by both parties. Registered on the Law Society's Directory of Expert Witnesses, both partners are also members of the Society of Expert Witnesses.
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