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Tenant-side results · New Zealand
Tenants negotiate a lease every few years. Landlords and their agents do it every week. These are real engagements where a tenant-side adviser closed that gap, from finding the right premises to negotiating, managing and exiting the lease. Every dollar saved came off the tenant’s bottom line, not ours.
saved on one site over the lease term
office fitout secured for $1
Shopping centre negotiation at a premium NZ mall. Secured a fitout contribution, lower accommodation costs, a fixed-percentage rent review, a lower bank guarantee and waived personal guarantees.
Design, building consent (change of use and fire engineering included), contractor procurement and construction to a Code Compliance Certificate, with no rent paid while it was built, delivered through Covid closures.
A new Auckland distribution centre secured in a 3% vacancy market, on a competitive rent with a substantial rent-free period, landlord office fit-out and flexible terms, with the old-site exit coordinated around it.
A seamless move to a better Wynyard Quarter site, a defit scoped to exactly what the lease required, and a handover the landlord signed off, all through Covid disruption.
in rent or holding costs from signing the lease to opening day, on a prime suburban site chosen to the operator’s brief.
cut from property costs across ANZ and National Bank’s branch and ATM network over 3 years, around 5%, while the network kept growing.
Off-market sites across the South Island, sourced and secured on more competitive terms than competitors, to extend a retail fuel network built over 70 years.
Four terms reset in the tenant’s favour on an inherited restaurant lease: a lower base rent, market rent reviews in place of automatic CPI rises, a clean exit route for the guarantors, and almost 12 more years of secure tenure.
A bigger landlord fit-out contribution, an exclusivity clause, limited personal liability and relocation risk removed, all inside two months.
Lower entry costs, rent-free and fit-out-free startup periods, and personal guarantees cut or removed, so every franchisee opened on solid footing.
A bigger office with more parking, a capped personal guarantee and real exit flexibility, on a lease that beat the firm’s existing landlord’s renewal offer.
A late, escalating list of make-good demands met with a signed baseline, a clause-by-clause response, and a clean exit at lease expiry.
A late, escalating list of make-good demands met with a signed baseline, a clause-by-clause response, and a clean exit at lease expiry.
A bigger office with more parking, a capped personal guarantee and real exit flexibility, on a lease that beat the firm’s existing landlord’s renewal offer.
Lower entry costs, rent-free and fit-out-free startup periods, and personal guarantees cut or removed, so every franchisee opened on solid footing.
A bigger landlord fit-out contribution, an exclusivity clause, limited personal liability and relocation risk removed, all inside two months.
Four terms reset in the tenant’s favour on an inherited restaurant lease: a lower base rent, market rent reviews in place of automatic CPI rises, a clean exit route for the guarantors, and almost 12 more years of secure tenure.
Off-market sites across the South Island, sourced and secured on more competitive terms than competitors, to extend a retail fuel network built over 70 years.
cut from property costs across ANZ and National Bank’s branch and ATM network over 3 years, around 5%, while the network kept growing.
in rent or holding costs from signing the lease to opening day, on a prime suburban site chosen to the operator’s brief.
A seamless move to a better Wynyard Quarter site, a defit scoped to exactly what the lease required, and a handover the landlord signed off, all through Covid disruption.
A new Auckland distribution centre secured in a 3% vacancy market, on a competitive rent with a substantial rent-free period, landlord office fit-out and flexible terms, with the old-site exit coordinated around it.
Design, building consent (change of use and fire engineering included), contractor procurement and construction to a Code Compliance Certificate, with no rent paid while it was built, delivered through Covid closures.
Shopping centre negotiation at a premium NZ mall. Secured a fitout contribution, lower accommodation costs, a fixed-percentage rent review, a lower bank guarantee and waived personal guarantees.
Tell me where you are in the lease, and I will tell you where the money and the risk sit, before you commit.
Every engagement on this page started the same way: a tenant facing a lease decision they make once every few years, sitting across from a landlord or agent who makes them every week. That gap is where money and risk quietly build up, in the starting rent, the review structure, the OPEX, the make-good, the exit terms.
Proactive Property Group acts for tenants only. Never landlords, never agents who also act for landlords. That is the thread through every result here, whether the win was a lower starting rent, a fitout secured for a fraction of its cost, a portfolio kept under control, or a clean exit at the end of the term.
The cases span the tenants we work with most: retailers, hospitality operators, franchises and service providers, across single sites and multi-site networks. If you are weighing up a lease decision of your own, the fastest way to see what is possible is to talk it through.
Common questions
Yes. PPG acts for tenants only, never landlords and never agents who also act for landlords. Every case study here is a tenant-side engagement, which is why the savings come off the tenant’s bottom line.
It depends on the lease and the stage, and the real money is usually in the starting rent because it compounds across the term. Two engagements shown here saved a single tenant $376,000 in occupancy costs over the term, and secured an office fitout worth $280,000 for $1.
These case studies span retail, hospitality, franchise and service-provider tenants, across single sites and multi-site networks. Use the industry filter above to see the ones closest to your situation, or book a call and we will talk through your own lease.
Yes. A lease strategy call is a private conversation about your premises and your numbers. Case studies are only published with the client’s agreement, and several here are kept anonymous at the client’s request.
Every story here started with one conversation. Tell me about your premises and your lease, and I will tell you where the money and the risk sit.
