Commercial Leases · glossary

Open market rent

The rent a willing landlord and a willing tenant would agree for the floor on the Review Date, if it were let empty for a new ten years on the lease's terms. The surveyor prices this imagined letting, using the assumptions and disregards in Schedule 2. Lease, Schedule 2, paragraph 2 · Chapter 4 · see Assumptions and disregards, Rent review

Explained in Chapter 4, Rent Review, of Commercial Leases.

How it comes up, in Chapter 4
The review needs a figure that does not exist yet: the open market rent. It is the rent that a willing landlord and a willing tenant would agree for the floor on the Review Date. But nobody will actually let the floor that day, because Linnet will still be in it.
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