Conveyancing

Why do I have to pay my landlord's solicitor fees and bank charges when renting a warehouse unit?

Published in: November 2009

"I am negotiating to rent a warehouse unit. I don’t see why I should have to pay the landlord’s solicitor as well as mine, and pay his bank’s charges to approve the lease just because he has a mortgage. What can I do about this?"

There is no law which says you have to, it is just part of the bargain you make with each other and over the years has become the usual practice. The justification is probably that landlords want to know what net return after expenses they will get, and if you were not paying those expenses, landlords would seek to recover them by adjusting rents upwards.