Your landlord has an agent. Their agent has a lawyer. You have a lease you signed once and a folder you have not opened since.
We sit on your side of the table for the whole life of that lease — tracking every date, checking every number, and telling you plainly what to do next. We do that for commercial tenants nationwide throughout Australia — every state and territory, capital cities and regional centres alike.
Office, retail, industrial and consumer-facing tenancies each go wrong in their own way. We read yours for the traps that belong to it.
01 — Office
Reviews dressed up as market adjustments, outgoings nobody expects you to audit, and a make-good clause written on the assumption you will never read it.
02 — Retail
Turnover rent, permitted use, relocation and demolition clauses. Retail tenancies sit under their own Act in every state and territory, and most of it exists to protect you — if it is used.
03 — Industrial
Racking, fit-out and reinstatement are where industrial exits turn expensive. We scope make-good at the start of the term, not in the week you hand back the keys.
04 — Consumer-facing
When customers walk through the door, the site is the business. Foot traffic, fit-out capital and exclusivity all have to survive the full term, not just the first year.
Images are illustrative of the tenancy types we advise on and are not photographs of client premises.
We work with the person who actually signs the lease and lives with it afterwards — whether that is one shopfront or fifty sites. Every service below is available nationwide throughout Australia.
Retailers·medical and allied health practices·hospitality·gyms and studios·offices·industrial and logistics·professional services·childcare and early learning·franchisees and multi-site operators
All services are advisory, consulting and information only and are available nationwide throughout Australia. Obsessed Lease is not a law firm. Location search and relocation services are provided as a Licensed Real Estate Agent (LREA).
No long onboarding, no discovery phase. Send the lease and we start.
A short call to understand your sites, your dates and what is worrying you. The engagement is scoped to your situation, not a package.
You get a letter of engagement setting out exactly what is covered. Sign it, send the lease documents, and abstraction starts the next business day.
Each lease is abstracted into LeaseEagle. Options, rent reviews and make-good obligations all get 90, 60 and 30-day alerts.
CreditorWatch and TICA sweeps on the landlord and every party to the lease, plus Arealytic rent comparables to benchmark where you sit.
A plain-English report of every risk, red flag and upcoming date lands in your inbox, and your first strategy call is booked.
By Friday of week one you will know more about your lease than most tenants learn in a decade — every date tracked, every risk named.
Six engagements, one per service. The problem the tenant walked in with, what we did, and the result — de-identified, with no client or business names, by design.
An option to renew sat eleven weeks from lapsing, undiarised. Once an option is gone, the tenant negotiates a brand new lease from a standing start.
Pulled the market evidence, drafted the option notice against the exact wording of the lease, and served it well inside the window.
Renewed on terms already secured in the lease, with rent held to market evidence.
A rent review came back well above what the space was worth, with no comparable evidence and no costed alternative to argue with.
Costed viable relocation options to the dollar and put them in front of the landlord alongside comparable evidence for the existing site.
And because rent compounds, that reduction is saved again every remaining year of the term.
A growing practice was close to signing the first site an agent offered, chosen on headline rent alone with incentives never tested.
Ran an on and off-market search against a written brief and compared every option on total occupancy cost, not headline rent.
A different site, capital funded by the landlord, and a lower ongoing occupancy cost.
Four years still to run, occupancy costs climbing, and no review date in sight to reset them.
Used the remaining term as the lever — the extension the landlord wanted, traded for a rent reset and a cap on outgoings, effective immediately.
Outgoings capped and the saving banked in that month’s rent, not at expiry.
A make-good estimate landed that would have consumed most of a year of profit — much of it for work the lease never required.
Scoped the works against what the lease genuinely obliged, separated enforceable from aspirational, and settled the position before handover.
Settled before handover, so no holdover rent on a space already vacated.
Several sites, no single view of what had been agreed, and two expiries falling in the same quarter against the same landlord.
Abstracted every lease into one register with critical-date alerts, then re-sequenced expiries so no two sites negotiate at once.
Each site negotiated on its own merits, with the landlord never holding two at once.
Most tenants end up dealing with all three at some point. They do different jobs, and only one of them is engaged by you for the whole term.
Engaged around a deal and paid when it completes. Deep market reach, but the relationship is built around the transaction rather than the years that follow it.
Reviews and drafts the documents, advises on legal rights, and acts in a dispute. Usually engaged once a decision has been made or something has already gone wrong.
The commercial layer that runs continuously: every date tracked, every review benchmarked against evidence, every negotiation prepared before it starts — and a fully briefed file for your lawyer when execution is needed.
Both give you the same reporting, the same alerts and the same evidence. They differ on term, how many leases are covered, and how new location searches are paid for.
Multi-site businesses and larger lease portfolios, especially if you expect to be searching for new space.
Individual leases, smaller portfolios, or a business that wants a flexible starting point without a fixed term.
All fees are quoted excluding GST and are billed weekly. Portfolio Retainer (Option A) is available only on a three-year fixed contract: $1,000 per week, covering up to 50 leases with no cap on the number of new location searches. More than 50 leases is priced on application. Flexible Advisory (Option B) is 5% of your individual lease or of your gross annual rent across all sites, has no fixed term, and does not include new location search; the search is charged at $5,000 + GST less the total advisory fees you have paid in the preceding 12 months, with only the shortfall payable. Flexible Advisory is not rate-locked, as the fee moves with your rent by design. One month is payable in advance before onboarding starts.
We are acting for commercial tenants nationwide throughout Australia now, in every state and territory. Send a few details and Ali will come back to you within one business day.
You do not need to pick a plan. If you are not sure which one fits, say so — that is what the third option is for, and working it out is part of the conversation.
Nothing is committed at this stage. If we are not the right fit for your situation, we will tell you that too.
Not sure — help me choose
Ali will be in touch within one business day to talk through your leases and confirm what fits.