Renewal Now for office and retail leases
Know what to negotiate before you sign your lease.
Upload your lease, answer a few questions, and get a clear, easy-to-read analysis of what's working, what's not, and your top negotiation points. Every finding points to the clause it comes from.
Free preview, no account needed. About five minutes.
Reads every clause
Including the schedules most summaries skip.
Office and retail
It reads the lease to tell which, and you can correct it.
A fixed standard
Every lease is graded against the same proprietary framework of lease terms. Not an opinion that shifts each time you ask.
Sample lease analysis
Retail leaseThis lease is solid overall.
The points below are worth raising before you sign or renew.
Top negotiation point
The lease says nothing about rent relief or a way out if the anchor stores close. Consider asking for co-tenancy protection.
Ranked first of 13 points by commercial impact.
Risk
Low risk
Financial
Mostly fair
Renewal
Workable
Flexibility
Somewhat flexible
Three simple steps
Go from uncertainty to a game plan.
01
Upload your lease
A PDF or Word file, an Agreement to Lease or the full lease. We read it to tell an office lease from a retail one.
02
Answer a few questions
Where you are in the renewal, what you've invested in the space, what matters most to you. None of it is required.
03
Get your plan
A grade, the few things that matter, what to consider asking for, and what the lease could cost you year by year.
See a report in 80 seconds.
A short walkthrough of a sample office lease: the grade, where to start, what to raise with your landlord, and what the lease could cost.
Read the transcript
Your office lease is coming up for renewal. Do you know what it says about your deadline, your rent and your options? Renewal Option reads the lease for you. Upload it, answer a few questions about your business, and in a few minutes you have a report.
Here is a sample lease for a small office in Toronto. It scores a D. The bottom line says it plainly: this lease could use real changes before you sign or renew. The report tells you where to start. On this lease, the renewal notice is due 9 to 12 months before the lease ends. That is easy to miss, and a missed deadline could cost you the option to renew.
Next, it shows what to raise with your landlord, starting with the most important. Each point tells you what the lease says and what you could consider asking for. Every finding points to the clause it comes from, so you can check it yourself. You can see where the grade comes from: risk, financial fairness, renewal strength and flexibility. And you can see what the lease could cost you, year by year, as an illustrative figure based on the numbers in your lease.
Renewal Option is software analysis, not legal advice. It helps you know what to look at and what to negotiate before you sit down with your landlord.
Not just a grade. A plan.
See where you have leverage, and what to focus on.
Top negotiation points first, ranked by commercial impact. Then the rent and escalation picture, your renewal deadlines, and every finding grouped by topic so you can look at the lease the way you think about it.
See a sample reportNegotiation points
What to raise and what to consider asking for, in the order that matters.
Rent, year by year
Base rent, operating costs, percentage rent and holdover, as an illustrative figure from your lease.
Deadlines, calculated
Your renewal notice window from the periods the lease states, with reminders if you want them.
Office and retail
Exclusives, co-tenancy, percentage rent and the obligation to stay open, when the lease has them.
What gets scored
Every lease is scored across five dimensions. Four make up your letter grade. The fifth, Negotiation Opportunity, is reported beside the grade because it answers a different question: how much you can realistically change, not how good the lease is.
Risk
What could end the tenancy or surprise you
Financial fairness
Rent, costs and what you get for them
Renewal strength
How real your right to stay is
Flexibility
Room to grow, shrink, sell or leave
Negotiation opportunity
Reported beside the grade, not inside it
An Agreement to Lease is graded only against what an Agreement to Lease is meant to contain, so you are never marked down for terms that have not been drafted yet.
Free to start. $99 for the full report.
The grade, the verdict and your top negotiation point are free. The full report, with every point, the rent projection and the clause behind each finding, is $99 CAD per lease, office or retail. Sales tax is added at checkout. The price becomes $199 on February 1, 2027.
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