Office dilapidations

Whether you’re relocating, downsizing, or ending your tenancy, knowing how to strategically manage office dilapidations can realise significant business cost savings. Every commercial lease comes with obligations.

Dilapidation, also known as Cat A fit out, is the process of a tenant returning a commercial space to the landlord in its original state.

It’s easy to make mistakes when it comes to managing dilapidations. And if it’s mishandled it could cost you a year’s rent – not an insignificant sum. It’s important for you as a tenant to understand and manage your lease obligations while minimising liability and doing an adequate level of restoration work to reduce potential costs and claims.

Our professional team is experienced in phasing works around your business operations. We can schedule noisy or disruptive tasks outside your working hours and maintain clean, safe working environments.

We’ve completed many dilapidations projects on behalf of tenants handing back-office spaces so know how to assess what repairs are necessary to meet your landlord obligations and what damage is likely to be viewed as reasonable wear and tear.

Our clients who are relocating often hire us to handle both dilapidations for their old premises and the fit out of their new one. This means that they have one point of contact to do the dilapidations work at their old office, return it back to the landlord in its original state, then take out their furniture and set it up in the new office post fit out.