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Massachusetts Commercial Lease Assignment from Tenant to New Tenant

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Massachusetts
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MA-852LT
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Description Transfer Of Lease To New Owner

Assignment of Commercial Lease from Tenant to new Tenant, with Landlord Remaining Unchanged. This agreement provides for the initial Tenant to either be joint and severally liable or not, depending upon the agreement reached between the parties.


Assignment in legal terms means the transfer of a property right or title to some particular person under an agreement, usually in writing. Unless an assignment is qualified in some way, it is generally considered to be a transfer of the transferor's entire interest in the estate, chattel, or other thing assigned. An assignment is distinguished from a grant in that an assignment is usually limited to the transfer of intangible rights, including contractual rights, choses in action, and rights in or connected with property, rather than, as in the case of a grant, the property itself. Some contracts restrict the right of assignment, so the terms of the contract must be read to determine if assignment is prohibited. For example, a landlord may permit a lease to be assigned, usually along with an assumption agreement, whereby the new tenant becomes responsible for payments and other duties of the original lessee.

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The tenant's agreement is tied to the property, not the owner. That means if the property sells while occupied, the tenant has the right to live there until the lease expires. The buyer has to honor the length of the original lease created between the seller and tenant.

In general, it is illegal in the United States to employ someone to do work but not pay him/her. Not so with lease takeovers. When you do a lease takeover, you have to realize that what you are doing is working to find your landlord another tenant. And that is something landlords pay leasing agents to do.

Great, you'll just need to let your agent or landlord know you'll be breaking your lease as soon as you have exchanged contracts. This will allow as much time as possible for them to find a new tenant to replace you. In this case, you're also up for a penalty fee called a 'break fee'.

Whatever the reason, tenants can transfer their lease interests to new parties by completing an assignment of the lease. An assignment is the transfer of one party's entire interest in and obligations under a lease to another party.

The difference between assignment and transfer is that assign means it's legal to transfer property or a legal right from one person to another, while transfer means it's legal to arrange for something to be controlled by or officially belong to another person.

What happens if a leased property is sold to another owner during the lease term?The lease will continue to apply to the subsequent owner if so stated in the lease. Or the lease may require that upon transfer, the lease terminates and the existing owner compensates the tenant per the terms in the lease.

The short answer is no. It must be clear from the landlord's conduct that the tenant's act of giving up the property is accepted as a surrender.The landlord should make it clear immediately that the lease is not surrendered, even though the landlord now holds the keys.

Can the landlord refuse consent to an Assignment? Most leases will say that the Landlord cannot unreasonably withhold consent. According to section 19 (1A) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 the landlord can insert conditions in the lease, which need to be met in the case of an assignment.

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Massachusetts Commercial Lease Assignment from Tenant to New Tenant