Get legal advice on how your lease rent review actually works

Because the real issue is often how the clause operates in practice. A lease may refer to market rent, fixed increases, CPI adjustments, notice steps or valuation mechanisms, but disagreements can still arise over timing, evidence, assumptions and whether the process has been followed correctly. Related clauses can matter too, especially where assignment, permitted use, landlord consent or occupancy restrictions affect the commercial position. We look at the clause as part of the wider lease, not as an isolated paragraph.

This service is commonly used by tenants facing a proposed rent increase, landlords wanting to apply the review mechanism properly, and business owners who need a legal view before responding to a notice or starting negotiations. It suits situations where the immediate issue is the rent review itself rather than the whole lease relationship. If you need a broad strategy on termination, make good, or a full lease renegotiation, that would usually fall outside this one-off advice service.

The written advice addresses the rent review mechanism in your lease and the practical issues flowing from it. That can include how rent is meant to be adjusted, whether notice or timing requirements appear to have been met, what rights you may have to challenge or negotiate, and what risks arise if the process is ignored. Where relevant, we can also flag connected terms such as assignment, subletting, landlord consent or occupancy provisions if they materially affect the rent review position.

Timing depends on how quickly we receive the lease and any related documents, and whether the issue is straightforward or already contested. If there is a notice deadline, valuation step or upcoming negotiation date, let us know when you enquire so we can assess urgency. The service is aimed at giving you a practical legal view on the rent review issue itself, but it cannot control the other party's response time or any third-party valuation timetable.

You receive written advice and can use the included follow-up time to ask questions, test negotiation points or clarify the practical next step. For some clients, that is enough to respond to the other party or decide whether to accept, challenge or negotiate the proposed rent. If you later want help with correspondence, negotiation strategy or broader lease issues, that further work can be scoped separately. Ongoing representation is not part of the fixed-fee for this service.

Just submit an enquiry via this page or click the 'get started' button on our website to submit an enquiry. After you've submitted an enquiry, one of our legal consultants will review your enquiry within 1 business day and get in touch to get a better idea of exactly what you are looking for.

Then your legal consultant will send through an email with a bit more information about the services you need, along with a fixed fee quote setting out costs, scope of the service and timing. Have a read through it, and if you're happy with the scope, you can accept and sign our engagement letter online - easy!

Once you've formally accepted, we'll connect you with a specialist lawyer and they will work with you to complete your project. They will contact you by email or phone if they need to get in touch.

Sprintlaw works on fixed-fee pricing wherever possible, so you can review the scope and cost before you decide whether to proceed. For the Rent Review Advice service, pricing starts from $900.00.

After you enquire, a legal consultant will confirm what is included, the expected timing and whether any extra work is needed before you engage us.

We operate completely online, which means we can help you wherever you are in New Zealand. We have office spaces in Sydney, and in Melbourne, but our use of technology allows our team members to work remotely from around the world. Our legal team are mostly based in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. We also have a London office for Sprintlaw UK.

Our legal team is made up of experienced lawyers, who are specialists in various areas of law and hold an Australian legal practising certificate. None of our Sprintlaw lawyers are New Zealand qualified lawyers and they do not currently hold a New Zealand practising certificate.

They provide legal services working remotely from Australia via our 'legal consultancy' model, through which (under section 6 and section 35 of the New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006) our Australian legal team are permitted to provide legal services to New Zealand businesses provided they do not provide services in certain 'reserved' areas of law. You can read our FAQ page to learn a bit more about our 'legal consultancy' model.

Given the strong similarities between Australian and New Zealand law, and the areas of law in which we practice (being small business and startup law), we do not view the fact that our lawyers have not qualified in New Zealand as having any substantive impact on the quality of our service. We are committed to ensuring that we provide high quality, affordable legal services to all our New Zealand clients.

Our legal team have all trained at leading firms, but have left the traditional corporate law world to join us on our mission to create a new and better way of delivering legal services. They have specialist expertise in technology law, intellectual property law, contract drafting and review, corporate law and commercial law.