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Commercial lease viability check

Pressure-test rent, revenue, costs, opening cash, and downside trading before signing a commercial lease.

Step 1 of 1: commercial rent check. Takes around 2 minutes.

Rent burden

Break-even customers

Opening cash pressure

Downside trading

Six-month survival

Lease questions to verify

Indicative decision-support only. Not financial advice, legal advice, tax advice, mortgage advice, a valuation, or a substitute for professional due diligence.

Enter your commercial unit assumptions below.

Use cautious assumptions. You can rerun the check with different rent, revenue, and cost scenarios.

Commercial rent check

Enter cautious assumptions you have today. You can rerun the check with different rent, revenue, and cost scenarios to see how the lease pressure changes.

Step 1 of 1Takes around 2 minutes

1Site and rent

2Revenue assumptions

3Monthly operating costs

4Opening cash and setup costs

5Downside case

Step 1

Site and rent

Start with the rent, site details, and business type so YieldLens can frame the lease pressure.

Address (optional)

Use the property address or postcode so YieldLens can organise local checks such as business rates, service charge, comparable rent evidence, and building-condition assumptions.

Postcode (optional)

Use the postcode if you know it. If you only have the address, YieldLens can try to extract the postcode for v1.

Listing URL (optional)

Business type *

Select a business type so the result can frame covers, orders, appointments, sales, and opening cash.

Annual rent (£) *

Use annual rent before VAT. If the lease is quoted monthly, multiply by 12 first. Example: 60000.

Step 2

Trading assumptions

These assumptions drive estimated revenue and break-even level.

Average spend per customer (£) *

Typical transaction value, before any optimistic upside case. Example: 12.

Expected customers per day *

Use a realistic normal day, not a best-case launch week. Example: 80.

Opening days per month *

Count trading days only. For example, 26 if you trade six days per week.

Step 3

Monthly operating costs

These costs are used to estimate the monthly cost base and break-even point.

Monthly staff costs (£) (optional)

Include wages, employer costs, and regular contractor cover where known. Example: 7000.

Monthly utilities, service charge, and other costs (£) (optional)

Add utilities, insurance, software, licences, service charge, and routine costs. Example: 1200.

Monthly business rates (£) (optional)

Use the best monthly estimate you have, even if rates still need confirming. Example: 900.

Step 4

Opening cash and setup costs

This checks whether the site can fund opening costs before trading begins.

Fit-out budget (£) (optional)

One-off cost before opening, including works, fixtures, equipment, and initial setup. Example: 50000.

Rent deposit (£) (optional)

Include the cash deposit requested by the landlord or agent. Example: 15000.

Legal and professional fees (£) (optional)

Include solicitors, surveyors, licence checks, or other professional costs. Example: 3000.

Opening stock (£) (optional)

Stock, consumables, launch inventory, or first trading supplies. Example: 8000.

Other setup costs (£) (optional)

Anything else paid before opening, such as signage, deposits, or launch costs. Example: 5000.

Available starting cash (£) (optional)

Cash available before paying fit-out, deposit, fees, and setup costs. Example: 90000.

Step 5

Downside case

Use this to test weak early trading, for example 60% of expected revenue.

Downside revenue case (%) (optional)

Leave blank to use the default 60% downside revenue assumption.

Save result

Where should we save this check?

Results are based on your assumptions. You can rerun the check with lower revenue or higher costs.

Email *

Required so your check can be saved and followed up.

Use estimates if you are still comparing sites. The result is only as useful as the assumptions entered, especially the business type, revenue, cost, and opening cash assumptions.

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The commercial lease viability check measures rent burden, break-even customers, opening cash pressure, downside trading, six-month survival, and lease questions to verify before signing.

Free property check

Commercial lease viability check

Pressure-test rent, revenue, costs, opening cash, and downside trading before signing a commercial lease.

Rent burden

Break-even customers

Opening cash pressure

Indicative decision-support only. Not financial advice, legal advice, tax advice, mortgage advice, a valuation, or a substitute for professional due diligence.

Enter your commercial unit assumptions below.

Commercial lease viability check

Pressure-test rent, revenue, costs, opening cash, and downside trading before signing a commercial lease.

Step 1 of 1: commercial rent check. Takes around 2 minutes.

Rent burden

Break-even customers

Opening cash pressure

Downside trading

Six-month survival

Lease questions to verify

Indicative decision-support only. Not financial advice, legal advice, tax advice, mortgage advice, a valuation, or a substitute for professional due diligence.