Independent building expertise for shops, cafés, restaurants, offices and small commercial units. Before you sign the lease, before you buy, and before you hand back the keys. From a qualified building surveyor, in plain English.
Request a commercial inspection →A German commercial lease (Gewerbemietvertrag) is not like a flat. It can push far more of the repair and reinstatement liability onto you, the tenant, than a residential lease ever would. Take on a café or shop without checking the building, and you can inherit the cost of problems you never saw.
We inspect the premises, structure, damp, roof, electrical capacity for your equipment, drainage and ventilation, and tell you in plain English what condition it is really in and what it would cost to put right. So you sign, or negotiate, with your eyes open.
Shops, cafés, restaurants, offices. Know the building's condition and repair costs before you commit.
For investors and owner-occupiers buying commercial or mixed-use property: a structured condition, defect and CapEx assessment. The risks, costed, before you commit.
At lease end: landlords, a costed schedule of what the tenant failed to repair or reinstate, so you can claim it. Tenants, an independent check on a claim against you, so you can challenge it or plan a clean exit.
An independent market-value assessment for a purchase, sale or negotiation on a small commercial unit. (Not bank or official tax valuations, those need a publicly appointed expert.)
If your shop or office has a defect, a leak, water damage, damp or mould, you may have a claim against the landlord (or, in a new build, the builder). We produce the independent, dated, photo-documented report, with the likely cause and severity, that a Mängelanzeige, a rent reduction, or a warranty claim relies on. For tenants and owners alike.
We assess the building and its condition. We do not handle the business side, gastronomy licensing, hygiene approval or the Konzession, and we do not do bank/mortgage (Beleihungswert) or official tax valuations. Everything we do, we do properly and in English.
Tell us about the property and where you are in the process, lease, purchase, exit, or a defect. We will tell you exactly how we can help and what it costs.
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