Dilapidations & Building Surveys
The space you occupy shapes every working day. Get it right and it lifts productivity and presents your business well; get it wrong and it becomes a cost that drags on the business and the people in it. We help occupiers stay on the right side of that line, and defend them when a landlord's repair claim arrives.
Trusted by occupiers across the UK for over two decades.
End-of-lease dilapidations claims are routinely inflated, and a building survey before you commit can save you from inheriting someone else's problem. We act for the occupier on both, so the numbers are tested rather than taken at face value.
Defending dilapidations claims
When a lease ends, landlords often serve a schedule of dilapidations that asks for far more than the law actually allows. We review the schedule against your lease, the real condition of the property and the landlord's genuine loss, then negotiate it down to a fair figure. The aim is simple: you pay for what you are truly liable for, and not a penny of the padding that so often gets added on top.
Surveys before they cost you a surprise
A proper building survey before you take or renew a lease tells you what you are really taking on: the condition, the repairing liability and the likely cost over the term. We survey the building, read it against the lease terms, and flag the risks while you can still negotiate them, rather than discovering them as an expense once you are committed and it is too late to do anything about it.
The schedule lands at the end of the lease and it always asks for too much. We read it properly, test every line, and settle it at what you actually owe.
Why you need this service
Claims are inflated
End-of-lease dilapidations schedules routinely ask for more than the law allows; we strip the figure back to what you genuinely owe.
We act for you
On dilapidations and surveys we represent the occupier, so the condition and the costs are tested, not taken at face value.
Know before you commit
A survey before you sign tells you the real condition and repairing liability, while you can still negotiate the terms.
Read against the lease
We measure the claim against your actual lease and the landlord's genuine loss, not against a wish list.
Has your landlord asked for more than you owe?
Has your landlord asked for more than you owe?
End-of-lease dilapidations claims are routinely inflated. We test every line and settle at the figure you are genuinely liable for, not the padded one.
Our landlord served a dilapidations schedule that was frankly alarming in scale. Ask-re took it apart line by line, measured every claim against our actual lease and the genuine loss, and negotiated it down to a fraction of the original demand. The figure we ended up paying bore no resemblance to where we started.
Managing Director, manufacturer
I forwarded the schedule expecting months of stressful back-and-forth and a large bill. Instead Ask-re handled all of it, kept me informed throughout, and had it settled at a fair figure within weeks. They clearly knew exactly which parts of the claim would not stand up.
Property Lead, retailer
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