The state Duma passed the second reading of the controversial bill governing the relationship between tenants and owners of commercial real estate. It was initiated by the tenants, who sought opportunity to terminate the contracts unilaterally without penalty. But in the end the owners of large targetrow made compromises. Upon termination of the contract, the tenants will not be able to demand the return of interim payments. In addition, under the bill does not become subject to major retailers, that is, relief will only receive small and medium enterprises from crisis-hit industries.The state Duma adopted in the second reading a bill that gives tenants the right to unilaterally terminate the contract if the landlord refuses to reduce the fee. But if in the first version of the amendments, it was assumed that owners of land will have to return security Deposit, the new amendments allow developers to leave a Deposit itself.Termination of contracts tenants will be able to claim if it’s not possible for 14 days to negotiate with the landlord about reducing the payments. This paragraph, says the Russian Council targetrow (RCSC brings together major owners of commercial real estate), “will (the owner of the object. “B”) more confident to plan the economy and reduce the possibility of manipulation of landlords from tenants”.The new amendments apply only to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) from in crisis-affected industries and are valid until 1 October 2020. According to the RCSC, now institutions, SMEs account for up to 25% of the rental stream in large torgtsentrov, and their share in the total turnover of the enterprises-tenants up to 34%. In fact, this is a compromise for developers — major retailers new amendments not affected. “B” sent a request to open the networks.The bill was preceded by disputes between tenants and developers. Tenants were sent a collective appeal to the speaker of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin with a request to adopt the amendments as soon as possible. They insisted that the prisoners before the pandemic COVID-19 contracts mostly uncomfortable, because include large fines upon termination by the tenant. His letters to the state Duma was sent to the owners of commercial property, offering a compromise. They referred to the fact that already make concessions to tenants, reducing payments, and the new bill will lead to the collapse on the market. Last week, the co-owner of group “Regions” Amiran Mutsoev, told Kommersant that if the law is passed in the form in which insist the tenants, the authorities will get as a result empty torgtsentrov.Managing partner of Colliers International Nikolay Kazanskiy noted that the treatment developers were heard in parts of the deposits, but there is a problem with ��the exception targetrow in the list of industries affected by the coronavirus. This would allow developers to subsidize loans and to postpone the payment of taxes. RCSC is also not fully satisfied with the bill, but adopted on may 21, amendment considered the most correct for developers.Accent Capital I think it is dissatisfaction with the document can make tenants. “It’s better than nothing. At the SMEs there is at least some argument in the dialogue with landlords”— recognizes the President of the Association of operators of the fitness industry Olga Kiseleva (one of the authors of collective letters to the state Duma from the tenants). However, she said among the affected tenants there is a large fitness network.Elizaveta Makarova, Khalil Amine
