1.   However, most leases incorporate a rent review clause which provides for the periodic raising of the rent.

2.   Since the value of a property investment is primarily the receipt of a secure rent, the rent review clause is the most important provision in the whole lease.

3.   Commercially, such a rent review clause may work to the disadvantage of either party.

4.   The periodic review to market rent is the most common form of rent review clause found in occupational business leases.

5.   So far, the courts have approached rent review clauses from the first perspective only.

6.   Many of the failures of rent review clauses result from a failure to consider carefully the object which the clause is designed to achieve.

7.   The presumption Much of the early litigation about rent review clauses concentrated on the question whether limits were of the essence.

8.   All those cases turned on the effect of particular words in the rent review clause.