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To read this article about the Coronavirus impact on landlords and tenants as a PDF, please click here.     As a consequence of the COVID-19 outbreak we are all now living in unprecedented times. Shops selling non-essential goods have been forced to close.  People have been instructed to stay at home.  So what does this …

Temporary letting of space is becoming ever more popular in the retail market.  Pop up retail shops in particular have a variety of benefits including the relatively low cost associated with securing and opening them.  By their very nature, they are almost tailor made for the sale of seasonal products, such as those associated with …

The rise of the ‘pop up’ shop in shopping centres and high streets throughout the UK has kept the retail team at Sherrards working flat out in the run up to Christmas.  Led by Terry Fendt and Stephanie Kierans, they have provided the legal advice on 28 pop up stores for long standing client Menkind …

Long standing client of Sherrards’ commercial property team ‘Locked In A Room’ has just opened its third site in Milton Keynes. With other sites in London Excel and Arelight House Bristol. Locked In a Room is the UK’s largest escape room experiences where participants work through a series of tests, puzzles and clues to unlock …

The Sherrards’ commercial property and retail teams have been busy helping long-standing client Giggling Squid open their new restaurant for the upcoming festive period. In September, Partner Stephanie Kierans helped Giggling Squid open their 37th restaurant yet in the Old Library on Wheeler Street in Cambridge. (Click here for some truly stunning photos).  The opening …

Sherrards’ commercial property team recently worked with the Lowe family on the sale of their Knebworth property to McCarthy & Stone, the UK’s leading retirement housebuilder.  Having sold the majority of the assets of Chas Lowe & Sons Ltd , their long established Knebworth building trade supplier business to Gibbs & Dandy in Stevenage in …