All articles by Anthony Lorenz
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InsightCouncils are wrong to block new PDR
I do not often get angry, but your cover story on 17 of 35 London local planning authorities prohibiting automatic permitted development rights coming into effect from 31 July 2022, when the old office-to-residential PDR will cease to have effect, infuriated me.
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InsightCovid-19 pandemic causes rent review challenge
Editor: Rent reviews are difficult enough to value at the best of times, but there are two major problems in finding the correct market rental values as a result of Covid-19.
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InsightThe traditional office has advantages over flexi space
Editor: I have followed your articles by Steve Jude, chief executive of NewFlex, on the whys and wherefores of the service office market for many years and have always found him optimistic about the serviced office market competing with, and perhaps taking over, from the traditional market.
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InsightWhat next for the co-working sector?
Editor: Over the past seven years, we have seen the meteoric rise of serviced offices and co-working operators such as WeWork and The Office Group taking long-term leases and buying freeholds .
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InsightThe current CVA process is not fit for purpose
For many years, I have represented tenants against landlords, mainly in the retail and leisure industry, by restructuring leases often at reduced rents or with rent-free periods. In many cases, the alternative is that tenants fail to pay rent, which leaves landlords with empty properties.
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InsightReality bites for Purplebricks
The share slump in Purplebricks, leader in the online ‘sell your own home’ market, doesn’t surprise me, nor does its previous meteoric rise.
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InsightA risk premium? The market now is busier than ever
I was very interested to read the comment by Anne Kavanagh covering her concerns about investing in today’s post-Brexit-vote market and the UK’s “risk premium” created because of the uncertainty of current negotiations being handled between the UK and our European counterparts.
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OnlineAre fund withdrawals over exaggerated?
If we had voted remain instead of leave, Great Portland Estates and Derwent would arguably have been the two companies with the best development pipeline of any developers in the central London market.
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ProfessionalFive years after rents collapsed, are young negotiators up to the challenge?
In June, September and December 2008 respectively, three settlements on identical 14,000 sq ft floors of quality Mayfair offices in Queensbury House, Old Burlington Street, evidenced the true fall in the office rental market either side of the Lehman collapse in September 2008.
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ProfessionalLeases will be the main event in 2012 and 2013
Strutt & Parker research shows that in London’s West End alone, 34% of office occupiers have upcoming lease events — expiries or breaks — in 2012 or 2013.
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ProfessionalTime to take abuse out of arbitration
Of my 43 years in the property industry, 35 have been spent in landlord and tenant work
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ProfessionalMy loss in court will make agents more paranoid about fees
Perhaps I lost the case because I was unwilling to sue a friend – there was no doubt we had done all the work
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Professional
Professional Opinion: Anthony Lorenz
Queensberry House rent reviews answer questions over post-Lehman market collapse
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ProfessionalPROFESSIONAL OPINION: Anthony Lorenz
We need a speedier method of settling dilapidations claims
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ProfessionalTime for tenants to cash in on tough market
Owners offer incentives to keep occupiers for the long haul, says Anthony Lorenz
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ProfessionalRent falls are a mystery when valuing in a void
Rent reviews surveyors are relying on guesswork as well as evidence, says Anthony Lorenz
