Repairing covenants
A repairing covenant or repairing duty transfers to the tenant the legal obligation to repair part or all of a building which is not theirs. It can be more a common occurance with commercial premises, often referred to as a Full Repairing and Insuring Lease (FRI).
The term a repairing covenant is described in the RICS 'Residential retrofit standard: RICS Professional Standard UK', March 2024, simply as 'Terms in an agreement that usually result in an annual sum paid to the landlord or freeholder that contributes towards the repair and maintenance of shared parts and facilities at a property (for example, roof coverings, walls, retrofit installations such as ‘renewable’ systems, shared gardens, hallways and lifts, typically at a block of tenements or flats).'
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