Examples include real estate taxes, utility payments, and direct payments to other vendors that are unrelated to the lease.
The most commonly used Massachusetts lease agreement is the Standard Form of Lease. This document covers essential details such as rent amount, lease duration, security deposit, maintenance responsibilities, property managers, and other crucial provisions.
Employee leasing is an arrangement between a business and a staffing firm, who supplies workers on a project-specific or temporary basis. These employees work for the client business, but the leasing agency pays their salaries and handles all of the HR administration associated with their employment.
Gross leases are most common for commercial properties such as offices and retail space. The tenant pays a single, flat amount that includes rent, taxes, utilities, and insurance. The landlord is responsible for paying taxes, utilities, and insurance from the rent fees.
Rent control was repealed in 1994 via ballot initiative. At the time, only Boston, Cambridge, and Brookline had rent control measures in place. Only Cambridge had a full system in place.
Rents decreased slightly after the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic,this trend reversed in 2021 and as of December 2023, the annual rental growth stood at 3.32 percent. Among the different states in the U.S., Massachusetts ranks as one of the most expensive rental markets.
It is possible to draft your own lease agreement, but you are leaving yourself open to issues.
Usually, unless rent control applies, the only way to contest a rent increase is to argue that the landlord raised the rent to discriminate against you or to retaliate against you for exercising a legal right. If you plan to make this argument, you should know what you need to prove to succeed.
Full Service leases, most common in Class A office projects, will typically include taxes, insurance, CAMS, management, utilities and janitorial all in one base rental rate.