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The Lease Navigator Checklist is the 19-point audit I run on a tenant’s lease. In plain English.
Your lease can drive the business forward or quietly bleed it, and the difference sits in clauses that are easy to skim past. Work through the checklist once a year, or whenever you’re expanding, relocating or renegotiating, and you’ll see the risks and the savings before they cost you.
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THE PROBLEM
A commercial lease runs to dozens of clauses, and every one was drafted for the landlord. The rent is only the headline. The real money sits in the outgoings, the rent review structure, the guarantees and the make-good, exactly the parts that are easiest to skim past. Reviewed once a year, those are the parts that quietly drain the profit.
What's inside
Each check comes with a plain-English action tip. No theory, just what to look at and what to do about it.
Section 1
Renewal rights, lease term, assignment and sublease options, and every key date diarised, so you’re never caught short on a deadline.
Section 2
Benchmark your rent, challenge reviews, break down your outgoings and check your OPEX reconciliations, where most of the savings hide.
Section 3
Personal guarantees, insurance cover, an early-exit contingency, hazard and health-and-safety obligations, and the make-good bill waiting at the end.
Section 4
Stay visible as a good tenant, negotiate collaboratively, keep a paper trail, and understand what actually drives your landlord’s decisions.
A look inside
This is exactly how the checklist reads. A question to ask of your lease, and a tip on what to do next.
Action tip: Check your lease for "rights of renewal" and note the notification deadlines.
Action tip: Most market reviews are negotiable. Even a fixed-percentage or CPI
review can be restructured.
Action tip: Review your deed of lease. Consider limiting or removing personal guarantees at the next lease event.
Action tip: These can be costly. Get a condition report or advice early so you can plan financially.
Why it's worth 20 minutes
A rent review left unchallenged. An outgoings charge with no cap. A make-good obligation nobody costed at the start. Each one sits quietly in the lease, and the money leaves the business a little at a time, so no one ever flags it as a bad decision.
Left unchecked, a single rent review settled above market can quietly cost a tenant tens of thousands over the term. The checklist exists to catch it before it does.
Who's behind it
Landlords have agents. Tenants usually have no one, and they deal with a lease a handful of times in a career. That gap is where the cost hides.
This is the same 19-point review I run on a client’s lease, shaped by hundreds of real tenant leases across New Zealand. Plain English, no jargon, and no landlord’s interest anywhere in it.
Marcus Bosch · Proactive Property Group
“[Real client testimonial about the checklist or working with PPG. Verbatim only. 1 to 2 sentences that speak to a tenant in the reader’s position.]”
[Role, business — e.g. Owner, Auckland café]
The checklist is the right start when you’re getting your bearings. If you’ve got a lease in front of you, a renewal looming or a review you think is too high, book a free 20-minute lease review call and we’ll find the savings and the risks together.
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Yes. Enter your first name and email and the 19-point checklist comes straight to your inbox, at no cost. We'll occasionally send a lease insight you can unsubscribe from at any time.
Run through it once a year as an annual lease review, or whenever you're expanding, relocating or renegotiating. It's built to be used more than once, at every lease event.
It's built for New Zealand commercial tenants across retail, hospitality, franchise and service businesses, from a single site to a multi-site network. If property isn't your core expertise but it's one of your biggest costs, it's for you.
No. You'll get the checklist in your inbox and that's it. If you want a second opinion on your lease, you reply and ask, and we book a free 20-minute review. The next move is always yours.
That's the point of it. When a check flags something you want a second opinion on, book a free 20-minute lease review call and we'll look at it with you. No obligation.
