John Banbury Email & Phone Number

Central London

It is a generalisation to call all rent review surveyors difficult old men, but I like it because it makes me look young and client friendly by comparison. A particularly brutal Commanding Officer once drilled me to "provide advice you can base a decision upon" and I still twitch involuntarily when I see long-winded reports that fill boxes and protect the author, instead of empowering the reader to make decisions.I genuinely love a bad lease. I am often asked to "check a lease for issues" (as part of purchase advice say); many people take that as a challenge to find a reason to spoil a deal (its much safer to say "no"). But quirks in leases are just as likely to be good news as bad. I prefer to find a reason to say "yes".

Acting for either Landlord or Tenant in negotiaions where a lease is already in place: i.e. lease re-negotiations, rent reviews, lease expiries. Specialising in office and industrial premises in south east England.On arriving at Knight Frank I was given this advice: "Real estate agents and landlords both have property as their core business. When acting for a tenant remember that their business is running their business, real estate is just a function of HR."

Landlord and Tenant negotiations relating to office properties in the south of England.Specific experience in most Thames Valley towns such as Reading, Marlow, Maidenhead, Slough, Staines, Chertsey, Richmond, Hammersmith.Acted on Chiswick Park rent reviews for the landlord in 2007/8 and more recently for tenants using the broad knowledge of the leases and negotiating angles possible on the Park.Cambridge lab and office rent reviews, lease renewals and re-gears, generally for tenants. Business parks and town centre.A range of Brighton offices over the years, most of which have had something interesting about them: a very difficult VAT clause, a rent review clause with an automatic 30% increase which had been overlooked for 10 years, an assumed premises completely different from the reality. What is it about Brighton?

3 operational tours with 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards- Squadron second-in-command.- Task Force Intelligence Officer - a role in which you learn to see a problem from the enemy's perspective, which I have found to be a rare and useful skill in civilian life (often claimed but rarely practiced).- Reconnaissance Troop Leader

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