For occupiers

Lease expiry or break clause coming up? You have three options — not one.

Most businesses treat a lease event as a renewal conversation. It isn't. It's the one moment you can reset cost, space and location on your terms — if you start early enough to keep all three routes open.

Find out which route fits your business

A free five-minute assessment gives you an independent stay, change or go view of your workplace — before you talk to agents or landlords.

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The three routes at a lease event

Stay

Renew or re-gear. Lowest cost and disruption — but only right if the space still fits how your team actually works.

Change

Refurbish or reconfigure in place, often alongside a re-gear. Middle cost, middle disruption — and frequently the overlooked winner.

Go

Relocate to space that fits. Highest cost and longest programme — but a clean slate when the building itself is the problem.

Why timing decides everything

24–18 months out: every option is open. You can compare a re-gear against a move on equal terms, and landlords negotiate hardest when they know you could leave.
18–12 months out: a relocation is still realistic — search, legals and fit-out commonly take twelve months or more.
Under 12 months: the move option narrows fast. Break notice deadlines pass, and you negotiate from weakness.
Break clauses: notice dates and conditions are strict. Miss them and the option closes — sometimes for years.

What the decision actually turns on

How much space you really need after hybrid working — not what you leased five years ago.
Total occupancy cost of each route, not headline rent — including dilapidations, fit-out and incentives.
Whether your current floor plate can be reconfigured to fit, and at what cost.
Your growth plans over the next two to three years.

The free assessment works through exactly these questions and tells you which direction is worth investigating first.

Start before the date forces your hand

Five minutes, no obligation. You'll get an indicative stay, change or go direction, a space forecast, and current UK market considerations. Professional advice is available when you want it.

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Indicative only — not architectural, property, legal or financial advice.