Lease Launch runs the whole process. Site visit. Ingoing condition report. Commercial sense-check against the draft lease. Coordination across solicitor, tenant, bank, insurer and strata. A real handover at the end. Your solicitor does the legal. You pay once.
Strip away the noise and Lease Launch comes down to three things that protect your position for the whole lease term. Each one shifts five to thirty thousand dollars across a typical five-year lease.
A 30 to 50 page photo schedule and written report covering every wall, fixture, defect, and service in your property. Printed, bound, dated, and signed by both parties.
Why it matters: This is the single document that wins your make-good dispute at the end of the lease. Most landlords skip it or produce a weak version. We do it the way commercial agents have done it for forty years.
Before you sign, we read the draft lease against a fifty-point commercial property checklist. You get a two-page written memo flagging anything off-market, missing, or onerous.
Why it matters: Lawyers handle the legal drafting. We handle the market. We catch the rent set too low, the outgoings clause missing a chargeable category, the vague make-good standard, and the option mechanism that fails on a technicality.
We sit between everyone: the owner, the tenant, the lawyers, the bank, the insurer, and the strata manager. We chase documents, escalate when things stall, and keep both sides informed at every milestone.
Why it matters: Lease setups drag for months when nobody drives them. We drive them. Both sides get a calm, structured process instead of a chaotic email chain.
Seven phases run from discovery to handover, plus post-engagement support while you settle in. We define each phase upfront, and you authorise the milestone release as each one lands.
A 30-minute call. We scope your property and quote a fixed fee.
Fee held in trust. Engagement letter signed.
Photo schedule, ingoing condition report, make-good baseline.
The lawyer drafts. We project-manage and send the sense-check memo.
Lease signed. Registered when the term runs over three years.
Bound file, walkthrough, key dates calendar, tenant introduction.
A month of email support while you settle into the lease.
Most lease setups end with a PDF of a signed lease in your inbox and silence afterwards. Lease Launch ends differently.
Your engagement closes with a physical handover, a printed calendar, a walkthrough meeting, and a month of support while you settle into the lease.
Five deliverables, all in your hands at handover.
A bound folder with the signed lease, condition report, make-good standard, disclosure statements, insurance certificates, bank guarantee, and director's guarantee. The folder you keep for the life of the property.
A printed wall calendar and an iCal subscription carrying every date that matters. Rent reviews, option windows, insurance renewals, bank guarantee expiry, make-good notice triggers, and outgoings reconciliation deadlines.
One page with the tenant entity, directors, accounts contact, operational contact, after-hours contact, and the tenant's lawyer and insurer. Your single source of truth when you need to call someone.
Forty-five minutes in person or on video. We walk you through every document, every date, and every "what do I do if" scenario. You leave understanding the lease you just signed.
Year one is when landlords have the most questions. Email us anything: a delayed first rent payment, bank guarantee wording that looks off, a tenant request you are unsure about. We answer.
Commercial leases sit under the Conveyancing Act. Retail leases sit under the Retail Leases Act 1994. Different documents, different traps. We handle both.
Warehouse, office, industrial, showroom, and mixed-use. Standard commercial leases. We coordinate registration for terms over three years under the Real Property Act.
Shops, food, services, and showrooms. Statutory disclosure, minimum terms, prohibited clauses, and outgoings recovery limits. Generalists miss them. We do not.
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12-page PDF. The same checklist we work from. Free, no email gate beyond name and work email.
We quote on discovery. We hold the fee in our agent's trust account, audited annually, and release it only as each milestone lands, with your written authority. We refund unused funds.
Just the ingoing condition report. No coordination, no handover, no support. For landlords whose lawyer handles everything else and who only need the property documented properly.
Lease Launch is a fixed-fee service that sets up commercial and retail leases in New South Wales. We coordinate the whole process: the site visit, the ingoing condition report, a commercial sense-check of the draft lease, liaison with the lawyer and the tenant, and a full handover. You found the tenant and agreed the terms. We make the setup easier and more professional for both sides.
Lease Launch suits landlords setting up a new commercial or retail lease who want it done properly without committing to ongoing property management. It works best on your first lease, on an unoccupied property that needs a condition report, on any retail lease, and when you own several properties and are setting up multiple leases. Tenants benefit too, because a structured process protects both sides.
We offer five fixed products. The condition report on its own starts at $1,500. Short-term commercial leases start at $3,000, standard three to five year leases at $4,500, and three to seven year leases with options at $5,500, where most deals land. Retail and complex leases start at $7,500. We quote your exact figure on a discovery call once we have scoped the property.
Every property carries a different scope. Strata adds by-law and levy work. Retail adds disclosure and outgoings compliance. A fitout adds works coordination and a second site visit. Distance beyond thirty kilometres from our Norwest office adds travel. We will not pretend one number fits every deal, so we publish a starting price and confirm the exact figure once we have scoped your property on a call.
No. We draw a clean line. Your lawyer prepares and registers the lease deed and advises on clause enforceability. We handle the commercial and operational setup that sits alongside the legal work: the condition report, the outgoings schedule, tenant verification, security structuring, and coordination. You can use our vetted partner or your own lawyer. We work with whoever you choose.
For most commercial leases, yes. Any term over three years, including options that push the total beyond three years, must run as a deed and register with Land Registry Services. Standard commercial structures reach nine years, so they need a lawyer. We coordinate the lawyer and manage everything around the legal drafting, so the whole setup moves as one process.
It is a 30 to 50 page photo schedule and written report covering every wall, fixture, defect, and service in your property, signed by both parties before the tenant takes possession. It is the single document that decides a make-good dispute at the end of the lease. Without it, you cannot prove the condition the tenant started in, and make-good claims worth tens of thousands of dollars collapse.
Yes. The condition report is available as a standalone product from $1,500. It suits landlords whose lawyer handles the rest of the setup and who only need the property documented properly. You get the full photo schedule and written report, signed by both parties, without the coordination, handover, or support that the larger products include.
Before you sign, we read the draft lease against a fifty-point commercial property checklist and send you a two-page memo flagging anything off-market, missing, or onerous. Lawyers handle the legal drafting. We handle the market. We catch the rent set too low, the outgoings clause missing a category, the vague make-good standard, and the option mechanism that fails on a technicality.
Retail leases sit under the Retail Leases Act 1994, which overrides the lease wording. The Act sets a minimum five-year term, prohibits certain clauses, caps outgoings recovery, voids land tax recovery, and forces disclosure on a fixed timetable. Commercial leases sit under the Conveyancing Act and carry none of those statutory duties. We set up both, and we price retail higher because the Act adds real compliance work.
Under the Retail Leases Act, you must give the tenant a disclosure statement at least seven days before the lease is entered into. If it arrives late or contains material errors, the tenant can terminate the lease within the first six months. We prepare the statement and manage the timing so that window never opens against you. This is one of the most common and costly retail setup mistakes.
No. The Retail Leases Act voids any clause that tries to recover land tax from a retail tenant, even if the clause is copied straight from a commercial lease. Many landlords assume the recovery applies and build it into their outgoings, then absorb the cost for the whole term. We strip the assumption out of your retail outgoings schedule so you are not relying on money you will never collect.
Blox holds a NSW real estate licence and a statutory trust account, audited annually. Your fee goes into that account, not our operating account. We draw against it only as each milestone is delivered, and only with your written authority. If the engagement ends before a milestone is reached, that money stays yours. It is the same protection that governs how an agent holds a sales deposit.
You pay as work lands. We tie every release to a delivered milestone: the engagement letter, the site visit and condition report, the drafting and sense-check, execution, and handover. As each completes, you authorise the release for that stage. You never pay in advance for work we have not done, and you can see exactly what each payment bought.
We reconcile against the milestones delivered and refund the balance held in trust. If the scope turns out smaller than we quoted, the difference returns to you as well. We would rather refund a fee and keep your trust than hold money against work we did not do. Nothing is locked in beyond the work already completed and released.
A standard setup runs about three weeks from the discovery call to handover, though it depends on how fast the lawyer, bank, and tenant respond. We drive the timeline rather than wait on it: we chase documents, escalate when things stall, and keep both sides informed at every milestone. Complex retail and fitout deals take longer, and we tell you the realistic window on the discovery call.
Five things, all in your hands at handover: a bound file with the signed lease and every supporting document, a printed and digital key dates calendar, a one-page tenant contact sheet, a walkthrough meeting that explains every document and date, and a month of email support. Most setups end with a PDF in your inbox and silence. Ours ends with a real handover.
Every date that costs money if you miss it: rent reviews, option exercise windows, insurance certificate renewals, bank guarantee expiry, make-good notice triggers, and the outgoings reconciliation deadline. You get it as a printed wall calendar and an iCal subscription. Missing an option window or a reconciliation deadline can cost more than the entire setup fee, so we build the calendar into every engagement above the standalone report.
Yes. We set the security amount, usually three to six months of annual rent plus outgoings and GST, and structure it as an unconditional bank guarantee or a bond. We check the guarantee wording is payable on demand, issued by an Australian bank, and names the correct landlord entity. We then diarise the expiry in your key dates calendar so the security never lapses mid-term.
When you are an experienced landlord renewing an existing tenant on the same terms, when the lease runs twelve months or less on a property you already documented, when the tenant is in occupation and you are re-papering an existing deal, or when the annual rent sits under $30,000. We will tell you honestly on the call if your deal falls into one of these, and point you to the standalone report or to doing it yourself.
Book a 30-minute discovery call. We send a fixed-fee quote within four hours, and we will tell you honestly whether Lease Launch is worth it for your deal, or whether you should simply book a standalone condition report.