For retailers
Retail portfolio advice for growing chains
Running 10–15 branches can mean dealing with multiple landlords, different lease terms and competing deadlines. As your retail property adviser, we help you control rental costs, prepare for upcoming decisions and negotiate with a clear commercial strategy.
Your outsourced retail property adviser.
Where we help
Rent reviews
Assess rental evidence and negotiate proposed changes.
Lease renewals
Review your options and agree a strategy before expiry.
Lease breaks and exits
Identify the relevant dates and coordinate advice on the requirements, working with your solicitors where needed.
New shops and relocations
Assess premises and negotiate commercial heads of terms.
Controlling rental costs
Challenge proposed rent increases, negotiate renewals and manage service charge and repair liabilities so occupancy costs stay proportionate to trading performance.
Portfolio planning
Build a forward programme of lease events, decisions and actions.
Detailed guidance on the two most common events sits on our retail rent review advice and commercial lease renewal pages, with repairing liabilities covered under dilapidations. As a retail property consultant, Chris also handles the ongoing portfolio management around those events — so each decision is made with the whole estate in view.
Rental costs you can influence
For small and mid-sized retailers, rent is often one of the largest fixed costs in the business — and one of the few that can be challenged. We help you control rental costs by checking the evidence behind each rent review, negotiating lease renewals from a tenant-side standpoint, and spotting service charge or repair claims before they escalate.
- Challenge unsupported rent review proposals.
- Negotiate lease renewals with the right evidence.
- Plan break dates and exits to avoid missed opportunities.
- Question service charge and repair liabilities early.
- Compare rents across your own portfolio before agreeing terms.
- Keep occupancy costs aligned with branch trading performance.
The aim is not to dispute every cost — it is to make sure each liability is properly founded, properly documented and commercially proportionate. Read more about retail rent review advice, commercial lease renewals and dilapidations.
Know what is coming before it becomes urgent
Most property problems in a retail chain are deadline problems. An initial portfolio review brings the whole picture into one place so nothing arrives as a surprise.
- Branch locations and trading priorities.
- Lease expiry dates, rent reviews and break provisions.
- Relevant notice dates, subject to lease verification.
- Current rents and key liabilities.
- Planned openings, relocations and closures.
- Decisions requiring action over the next 12–24 months.
Dates and obligations must be checked against the signed leases and the relevant documents — we work from your paperwork, not from assumptions.
The review becomes a practical property action plan: what needs attention, in what order, and who does what, with the priorities agreed with you. This is advisory work carried out with you — not an automated monitoring service.
Property support that grows with your business
An initial portfolio review
Understand the current position across your branches and identify the priorities.
Help with a specific instruction
Advice on a rent review, renewal, acquisition or other property matter.
Ongoing retained support
An agreed programme of advice, regular portfolio discussions and coordination of upcoming lease events.
Scope and fees are agreed in advance to reflect your portfolio and the support required.
Who you deal with
You deal with Chris McGarrigle directly. Chris qualified as a Chartered Surveyor (MRICS) in 1989 and has spent more than forty years in commercial property, with extensive retail landlord and tenant experience across rent reviews, 1954 Act lease renewals and dilapidations.
That means the person who reviews your leases is the person who negotiates them — no handing the file to a junior, and no landlord-side conflicts.
MRICS is Chris McGarrigle’s personal professional qualification with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors; it is not a statement of firm-level regulatory status. More about Chris.
Let’s talk about your shops
Tell us a little about your business and the property decisions ahead.