Radius Consulting is a firm of Chartered Surveyors specialising in the provision of retail and commercial property valuations nationwide, with a particular emphasis on valuation pursuant to section 18 [1] of the Landlord & Tenant Act 1927.

Section 18 valuations place a ceiling, or cap, on the amount of costed repairs [dilapidations] that a landlord can claim against a tenant. (dilapidations cap valuations)

Every landlord or tenant will be concerned with dilapidations matters at some point during, and invariably at the end of, a lease.

A landlord may require such in order to comply with the PLA protocol [www.pla.org.uk], this to be served upon the tenant with the costed repairs schedule.

A tenant may require one to establish whether or not this statutory cap, or ceiling, might serve to reduce their dilapidations payment to the landlord.

Often this reduction is significant.