A draft lease in minutes. Take it quickly from agreed terms to completion all online.
£375 + VAT per party
£750 + VAT per lease, split 50/50 or however the parties agree.
No abortive fees
Get Free DraftAqqord doesn't take sides. We just help you move at your own pace.
When your property becomes vacant, any delay loses you money. You can agree terms with your tenant in minutes, not months, and start earning rent sooner.
Highly experienced solicitors wrote the clause library on a balanced footing that's fair to both landlord and tenant, so your tenant can sign with confidence.
The drawn-out legal negotiation has already been done, so there's no back and forth to pay for.
The heads of terms cover the commercial points, such as the rent, the length of the lease, the start date, any break, rent reviews, any rent-free period or deposit, and the permitted use.
They're a matter for you and the tenant, and nothing is agreed until you've both agreed it.
The lease is generated from the heads of terms. The wording was drafted by senior commercial property solicitors and negotiated to be fair to both sides and appropriate for the property.
Where the lease is contracted out of the 1954 Act, the platform deals with the warning notice and the declaration.
When you're both happy, you and the tenant each sign through the platform, which guides you both through signing and completing the lease.
The lease is a deed between you and the tenant, and it's the parties who sign it. Aqqord never signs or completes anything on anyone's behalf, and neither does an agent.
Changes to the deal, such as a different rent-free period, break date or permitted use, are made in the heads of terms.
Either of you can propose a change. Once you've both agreed it, the lease updates with the matching wording before anyone signs.
£750 + VAT per lease. Split it with your tenant, cover it to help the deal, or agree your tenant pays.
If either of you instructs a solicitor, they charge separately.
A few things landlords often want to know before they try it.
No, the lease is generated from your heads of terms, in wording drafted by senior commercial property solicitors. Aqqord carries professional indemnity insurance and is regulated by the SRA.
Aqqord adds an SRA-regulated platform, up-to-date wording drafted by senior commercial property solicitors to be fair to both sides, and the 1954 Act warning notice and declaration. It also guides both parties through signing and completing the lease, so execution and completion are done correctly. Both parties work from the same lease, and changes go through the heads of terms, so drafts don't go back and forth with the other side's solicitor.
A renewal on Aqqord isn't a copy of the old lease. It's a fresh lease drafted from the new terms, and the clause library is kept up to date, so it will reflect the law as it stands. Your accrued rights are preserved.
There are no abortive fees. The fee is charged only once the lease is agreed, so if it isn't, nobody pays anything. You can try it on one letting, perhaps a smaller unit.
“We agreed heads of terms on a lease through Aqqord and took it all the way to a signed lease without instructing a solicitor, which I’d never managed before. Both parties reviewed and accepted the terms on the platform, and those terms flowed straight into the final lease. We didn’t trade drafts, pay legal fees or wait weeks for redlines.
If your deal isn’t too complicated, it’s a much quicker route to a signed lease. I’ll be using it again.”
“Aqqord is an excellent platform for commercial leases, and I’ve been really impressed by how smoothly the process works. I’m a big fan and would highly recommend it to other landlords.”
Aqqord is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. The negotiation you would expect the solicitors to have has already been done, so you don't need a solicitor to use Aqqord, and plenty of people complete a lease with us without instructing one.
Setting the lease up on Aqqord doesn't make us your solicitor, and it makes no difference which of you set it up. We don't act for you or for the tenant, and we don't give legal advice to either of you. Both of you use the platform on the same footing and see the same documents.
You can take independent legal advice before you sign. What we can't do is tell you whether the deal itself is a good one.
Your tenant uses the platform on the same footing as you, with the same choice about taking advice. These pages explain how it works:
Any questions about how the process works, call 0800 161 3800 or email info@aqqord.com.