NSW RETAIL LEASES · CRITICAL DATES WATCH · A$199/YR FOUNDING · GENERAL INFORMATION, NOT LEGAL ADVICE
LeaseWatch reads the critical dates out of your NSW retail lease once, the option exercise window, expiry, rent review, then watches them for you with escalating alerts from 12 months out. For NSW retail tenants holding a lease nobody is watching. Founding membership is A$199 per year (AUD, GST incl.), up to 3 leases; general release is A$349/yr, and founding locks your rate. Not advice. A watchdog: it never interprets your lease. That stays with your solicitor.
Every lease is its own watch: dates are tracked per lease, never blended across sites. Summaries as at September 2026, under the Retail Leases Act 1994 (NSW).
HOW IT WORKS · THREE STEPS
The planned launch intake. You confirm, then the watch starts.
STEP 01
Send your lease or your solicitor's critical-dates letter, whatever already lists the option window, expiry and rent review dates.
STEP 02
You get a one-page summary of every date we're about to watch. You confirm each one. Nothing is tracked until you say so.
STEP 03
Escalating alerts from 12 months out: T-12MO, T-90D, T-30D and T-7D, per lease, starting by email and routable to more than one inbox.
Your lease document is used only to set up your watch: never shared, never sold, never used for anything else. You can ask for it to be deleted at any time.
THE PROOF · FREE DEMO
Everything is computed in your browser. Nothing is sent anywhere. At launch, these are the alerts LeaseWatch would be sending you.
Enter the date your option window closes:
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Demo instrument. Where these dates live in your lease: option clause (exercise window open and close), term clause (lease start), rent review clause (review dates and process).
THE THREE DATES
Most retail lease disasters aren't disputes. They're deadlines that passed quietly.
The window to exercise your option for a further term. It opens and closes on dates set by your lease, not by anyone's reminder. Your landlord and their agent aren't your calendar, and to be fair, it isn't their job either. Miss it: you can lose the renewal right entirely, and with it the fit-out, the goodwill, the location.
The end of the current term. Renegotiation leverage peaks in the 12 to 18 months before, if you're watching. Miss it: holdover on the landlord's terms, or a scramble with no runway.
The review date and the process your lease prescribes: valuer appointment windows, objection timeframes. Miss it: the landlord's figure stands unchallenged.
HONESTY · WHAT THIS IS AND IS NOT
WHY IT EXISTS · HONEST ALTERNATIVES
Fair question. It's the first one we ask ourselves. Here are the real alternatives, what each costs, and the gap that's left.
| Alternative | Cost | What you get, and what you miss |
|---|---|---|
| Your solicitor: a critical-dates letter | Paid, per lease | The gold standard: precise, tailored. But it sits in a drawer. It doesn't chase you, it doesn't escalate, and every new lease means paying for the exercise again. |
| Your own calendar | Free | Works until the person who set the reminders leaves, the dates were read off the lease wrong in the first place, or nobody set the 12-months-out warning the option window needed. |
| NSW Small Business Commissioner | Free, government | Genuinely useful retail-lease information, plus dispute assistance and mediation. It helps when things go wrong; it doesn't watch your dates so they don't. |
| LawAccess NSW | Free | Free legal information for NSW residents, including leasing topics. Information, not monitoring. |
| The Retail Leases Act 1994 itself | Free, legislation | Public and free to read. Knowing the law exists and knowing your dates are approaching are two different problems. This product solves the second one. |
If you've already paid a solicitor for a critical-dates letter and someone reliable owns the calendar, you don't need this. LeaseWatch is for everyone else: the operators holding a lease they signed years ago, with dates nobody is watching.
FOUNDING MEMBER · PRICING
"Founding member" isn't scarcity theatre. It's the validation mechanism: we're testing whether at least 5 NSW retail tenants will pre-commit at $199 within 6 weeks. That number decides whether LeaseWatch gets built at all.
FOUNDING MEMBER · ONE PLAN
A$199 /yr AUD, GST incl. · founding rate · up to 3 leases
General release A$349/yr. Founding locks $199/yr: a $150 saving, kept while the product is in validation and at release.
Cancel anytime. The plan runs to the end of the paid year, and the first charge carries a 14-day money-back window. If you leave and come back, your founding rate is yours.
Nothing is charged unless it launches. A pre-commit is a reservation, not a payment: if the 5-in-6-weeks test fails, every pre-commit is released and no money moves. Refund exposure is zero by construction.
QUESTIONS · ASKED BY TENANTS, ANSWERED STRAIGHT
No. LeaseWatch is a general-information date tracker. It never interprets your lease: that stays with your solicitor. It watches the dates your lease or your solicitor's summary gives it.
You might not. If your solicitor gave you a critical-dates letter and someone reliable owns the follow-up, you're covered. LeaseWatch is for tenants whose dates live in a filing cabinet nobody opens.
Up to 3 leases on the founding-member plan. Useful if you operate more than one site.
A reservation at the $199 founding rate. Nothing is collected now. At a real launch it converts to a membership only if the 5-in-6-weeks test passes.
LeaseWatch is retired and every pre-commit is released. Nothing is charged. There is nothing to refund because no money moved.
Anytime. The plan runs to the end of the paid year, and the first charge carries a 14-day money-back window. If you leave and come back, your founding rate is yours.
Reserve a founding membership. Nothing is charged unless it launches.
Reserve founding membership · $199/yr