Break clauses for commercial lease agreements

Our commercial lease break clauses are a supplement for use in our Commercial Lease Agreement template. They are not a complete lease on their own.

Break clause for a Commercial Lease

You need to purchase the commercial lease agreement template as well if you want to use them. They comprise:

• a landlord’s break clause; and
• a tenant’s break clause.

You will receive both versions and can use which you need: one or the other or both. you can then use one or both of them in your commercial lease.

They are not for use with any form of residential tenancy. So only use them for a lease of business premises.

The break clauses allow either or both of the landlord and tenant to terminate the lease early at a defined point, perhaps a couple of years in. The break clauses specify the amount of notice before those set dates that needs to be given to the other party in order to terminate the lease at that earlier date. There might be one date or more than one date that can be used as to terminate the lease early.

Use with our Commercial Lease Template

The break clauses are simple to slot into our commercial lease agreement. Also they come with a brief guide telling you how to do this. For further details on our commercial lease agreement template, see the links on the right for our commercial lease agreement template and the guide to it.

While you can use break clauses in all sorts of long-term contracts, to bring them to an end early, we have designed these clauses specifically for use only with our commercial lease agreement template.

Here is Wikipedia’s brief explanation of what a break clause is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Break_clause.

Not for Scottish Law

Our break clauses are only for leases of property based in England or Wales. They are not for use with property located in Scotland.