Rules of lease auditing and dispute resolution

Abstract

This paper gives an overview of a very topical and specialised area in commercial leasing and also generally presents methods in which a corporate tenant or user may bring an action (or the theories of such an action) against its landlord. The paper first tells the reader what a lease audit is and what it is intended to achieve. Then the piece attempts to give a number of possible ways in which a corporate user could assert its rights against a landlord in order to recover monies that may be owed to the tenant under a miscalculated or erroneous rent clause. The paper also discusses the pitfalls that a tenant may face in trying to conduct a lease audit and successfully bring a legal action to recover monies for which the tenant has been allegedly overbilled or overcharged.

Citation

Di Sciullo, A.M. (1999), "Rules of lease auditing and dispute resolution", Journal of Corporate Real Estate, Vol. 1 No. 3, pp. 262-269. https://doi.org/10.1108/14630019910811060