A landlord and tenant form a commercial lease when the former agrees to let their property to the latter. When this occurs, they will create a commercial lease agreement, setting out the terms and conditions of the arrangement for the commercial property. Terms and conditions of a commercial lease are the leasehold covenants and clauses that detail the commercial lease rules. The positive covenants oblige one party to do something, such as certain actions they must carry out in the commercial lease. This article will explain what restrictive covenants mean in a commercial lease. Both commercial landlords and tenants must abide by restrictive covenants in commercial leases or risk breaching them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When a commercial landlord lets a commercial tenant use their property, they act as a lessor and the latter as a lessee. The landlord allows the tenant sole occupation of a property in return for rental payments. The landlord will allow this for a given length of time, known as the lease term, and only for a specific business purpose. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A commercial lease agreement<\/a> governs a commercial lease and is a binding contract between both parties.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n The lease agreement will set out all the terms of the lease, such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Such lease terms comprise a mixture of positive obligations on the parties as well as restrictive ones. Both positive and restrictive covenants are, in effect, promises made by the parties on the lease. Positive covenants typically fall to the freeholder, so the lessor or landlord. <\/p>\n\n\n\n More widely in commercial contracts, restrictive covenants play the role of stopping a party from carrying out a commercial activity which may put them at a competitive advantage over the other party. A restrictive covenant in a commercial lease agreement is, therefore, a promise from one of the parties not to do something within the commercial lease. As it is a restricted promise, it restrains them from doing something or allows them to do it, provided they have permission. Restrictive covenants typically bind the leaseholder, that is, the lessee or commercial tenant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some examples of restrictive covenants are to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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