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As a partner in the landlord & tenant team in Gerald Eve’s City office, Sophie has a wide range of experience in all property sectors and specialises in landlord & tenant matters within central London and the South East.
Sophie undertakes rent reviews and lease renewals for clients with property portfolios both within and outside London, including the preparation of expert evidence where matters are referred to a third party or Court for determination. Sophie has ongoing reviews or recently dealt with properties in Leicester Square, Regent Street, St James’s, Lloyd’s Avenue, Lombard Street, Creechurch Lane and Kensington in central London and Norwich, Fareham, Eastleigh and Oxfordshire.
Specific experience
Sophie provides landlord and tenant advice to one of London’s largest private landlords with properties predominantly in the West End. This work includes office properties, retail, restaurant and club premises in London’s premier tourist destinations.
Within central London Sophie recently agreed a rent review on an office property in the City of London at a nil increase acting on behalf of the tenant. The property is located to the south of Cannon Street and unusually for the City provides floor plates of circa 25,000 sq ft. The landlord tried to argue that this was an advantage for which the tenant in the market would pay a premium. Having undertaken extensive research, it was clear this was not the case and we successfully defeated the landlord’s claim with resulting cost savings of close to £1 million over five years for our client.
Sophie has also recently had success for a client by referring a rent review on a retail shop in the West End of London to an independent expert for determination after it became apparent the tenant was not going to make a realistic offer to settle the rent review. Being an expert in that field, and relying on experience of previous rent reviews agreed on similar properties, Sophie successfully demonstrated to the expert the correct level of value to be adopted. The outcome was a significant increase in rent for our client at a rent very close to our Calderbank offer so that our client’s position was also protected on the issue of the third party costs.
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