Overview
Date: Wednesday, 10 June 2026
Time: 09:30 - 16:30
Refreshments and lunch included throughout the day
Venue: Avison Young office, Manchester
Includes - full-day workshop, course materials, pre- and post-reading material and additional online webinar content
Prepare for your RICS APC final assessment knowing exactly what your assessment panel will be looking for.
Landlord & Tenant is one of the most technical and highly scrutinised RICS APC Commercial Real Estate competencies at final assessment.
This intensive, full-day workshop is designed to take you beyond textbook theory and show you exactly how to apply commercial real estate landlord & tenant principles to your own Level 2 and Level 3 examples.
Led by Charles Watson MSc FRICS - a highly experienced Chartered Surveyor, L&T specialist, and acting RICS APC Chair and Assessor - this session offers a fantastic opportunity to learn directly from an assessor's perspective.
Charles will use real-life scenarios to bring complex issues to life, helping you fine-tune your knowledge, sharpen your skills and structure robust interview responses.
Who should attend?
This workshop is highly recommended for any RICS APC candidates undertaking the Landlord & Tenant (Commercial Real Estate) competency to Level 2 or Level 3.
What will you learn?
By the end of this workshop, you will have learnt about key Level 1 knowledge and, more importantly, how to articulate robust examples at Levels 2 and 3. We will help you to develop the skills to explain your reasoned advice, both within your submission and interview responses.
Part 1: Mastering Rent Reviews
The Fundamentals - various bases of review, notices and understanding when 'time is of the essence'.
Valuation & strategy - rental valuation, hypothetical lease terms, assumptions and disregards.
Client advice - strategic advice and how to provide recommendations to clients.
Protection on costs and offers to settle - without prejudice and subject to contract labels and Calderbank offers.
Dispute resolution - arbitration vs. expert determination.
Documenting the review - rent review memorandums.
Legal Context - application of relevant caselaw.
Part 2: Navigating Lease Renewals
Statutory framework - the Landlord & Tenant Act 1954 (including proposed reforms).
Notices & mechanisms - Section 25, 26, and 27 notices (and how to advise on a notice strategy), Section 40 requests and holding over.
Contracting out - including simple and statutory declarations, and advising on how to avoid security of tenure being acquired at expiry.
Opposition & compensation - Section 30 grounds of opposition and Section 37 compensation for disturbance.
Offers to settle - Calderbank vs. Part 36 offers and when to serve each.
Court process and PACT, including extensions of time
Rental valuation.
Interim rent and Section 34 terms of the new lease.
Client advice - how to advise clients on the renewal process and achieving a negotiated settlement.
Relevant caselaw.