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Drastically reduce both drafting and negotiation time
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Clarilis Real Estate Plus is a comprehensive suite of deeply automated commercial real estate documents comprised of industry standard documentation and curated content from the MCL drafting committee and international law firm Gowling WLG.

This off-the-shelf solution provides deep automation of documents frequently used by commercial real estate teams - covering sales, full lease lifecycle, short-term occupation, options, pre-emptions, and construction.

Real Estate Plus Suites

The Clarilis Real Estate Plus solution contains over 70 deeply automated real estate documents, across eight different suites. See below for what is included in each suite:

Sale Suite
  • Agreement for Sale (freehold/leasehold vacant possession or investment, portfolio)
  • Deeds of Assignment (construction warranties, rent deposits, general contracts, rent arrears)
  • Transfer Deed (HM Land Registry TR1/TP1/TR5)
New Lease Suite
  • Agreement for Lease (Landlord/Tenant works, planning conditionality)
  • Lease (MCL - 19 versions plus additional clauses)
  • Renewal Lease by Reference
  • Rent Deposit Deed (MCL)
  • Licence for Alterations (MCL - 6 versions)
  • Documents for Exclusion of Security of Tenure (Notice, Declarations, Cover Letter/Email)
  • Licence to Use Seating Area
  • Licence to Occupy
  • Licence to Park
  • Tenancy at Will
  • Early Access Letter
Asset Management Suite
  • Licence to Assign (MCL – 6 versions)
  • Licence to Underlet (MCL – 2 versions)
  • Licence to Change Use (MCL – 2 versions)
  • Licence for Alterations (MCL – 9 versions)
  • Rent Deposit Deed (MCL)
  • Deed of Variation
  • Licence to Use Seating Area
  • Licence to Occupy
  • Licence to Park
Occupational Arrangements Suite
  • Licence to Use Seating Area
  • Licence to Occupy 
  • Licence to Park 
  • Tenancy at Will 
  • Early Access Letter
Surrender Suite
  • Deed of Surrender
  • Surrender Deed (HM Land Registry TR1)
  • Documents for Exclusion of Security of Tenure (Notice, Declarations, Cover Letter/Email)

Security Of Tenure Suite
  • 1954 Act Warning Notice  
  • 1954 Act Statutory Declaration  
  • 1954 Act Simple Declaration  
  • Cover Letter/Email
Options and Pre-Emptions Suite
  • Option Agreement
  • Pre-Emption Agreement
  • Transfer Deed (HM Land Registry TR1/TP1)
Construction Suite
  •  Collateral Warranty (Consultant/Contractor to Tenant)

What does Real Estate Plus include?

The Clarilis Real Estate Plus solution contains over 70 deeply automated real estate documents, across eight different suites. Click below to see the documents included in each suite:

Sale Suite documents:

The Sale Suite contains five types of contract for use with vacant and tenanted properties, including for portfolio transactions. A Land Registry transfer deed can be drafted alongside, with a choice of clauses in the TP1 form to deal with common situations e.g. rights of way and services. The suite also includes optional deeds of assignment for benefits such as rent deposits and warranties.

 

  • Agreement for Sale (freehold/leasehold vacant possession or investment, portfolio)
  • Deeds of Assignment (construction warranties, rent deposits, general contracts, rent arrears)
  • Transfer Deed (HM Land Registry TR1/TP1/TR5)

New Lease Suite documents:

The New Lease Suite contains the most commonly used documents for the grant of a new lease. It includes an Agreement for Lease, both of the standard forms of MCL Lease and a shorter form Renewal Lease by Reference, as well as various ancillary documents to cover alterations, rent deposits, ancillary occupation and exclusion of security of tenure.

  • Agreement for Lease (Landlord/Tenant works, planning conditionality)
  • Lease (MCL - 19 versions plus additional clauses)
  • Renewal Lease by Reference
  • Rent Deposit Deed (MCL)
  • Licence for Alterations (MCL - 6 versions)
  • Documents for Exclusion of Security of Tenure (Notice, Declarations, Cover Letter/Email)
  • Licence to Use Seating Area
  • Licence to Occupy
  • Licence to Park
  • Tenancy at Will
  • Early Access Letter

Asset Management Suite documents:

The Asset Management Suite contains documents needed for transactions during the term of a lease. It includes Licences for assignment, underletting, change of use, and alterations, together with a framework Deed of Variation.

  • Licence to Assign (MCL – 6 versions)
  • Licence to Underlet (MCL – 2 versions)
  • Licence to Change Use (MCL – 2 versions)
  • Licence for Alterations (MCL – 9 versions)
  • Rent Deposit Deed (MCL)
  • Deed of Variation
  • Licence to Use Seating Area
  • Licence to Occupy
  • Licence to Park

Surrender Suite documents:

The Surrender Suite drafts all documents required for surrendering a tenancy including an optional Agreement to Surrender and the deed of surrender in both document and Land Registry Transfer formats.

  • Agreement to Surrender
  • Deed of Surrender
  • Surrender Deed (HM Land Registry TR1)
  • Documents for Exclusion of Security of Tenure (Notice, Declarations, Cover Letter/Email)

Occupational Arrangements Suite:

The Occupational Arrangements Suite contains a set of documents covering different forms of short-term or ancillary occupation. It includes, for example, a Tenancy at Will and Licence to Park, amongst others.

  • Licence to Use Seating Area
  • Licence to Occupy
  • Licence to Park
  • Tenancy at Will
  • Early Access Letter

Security of Tenure Suite documents:

The Security of Tenure Suite enables standalone drafting of 1954 Act papers both for the grant of a new lease and an agreement to surrender an existing lease with security of tenure.

  • 1954 Act Warning Notice
  • 1954 Act Statutory Declaration
  • 1954 Act Simple Declaration
  • Cover Letter/Email

Options and Pre-Emptions Suite documents:

The Options and Pre-Emptions Suite drafts an option or pre-emption of whole or part of a property, including wording for fixed price or market valuation determination of option price, with an accompanying transfer deed if required.

  • Option Agreement
  • Pre-Emption Agreement
  • Transfer Deed (HM Land Registry TR1/TP1)

Construction Suite documents:

The Construction/Collateral Warranties Suite currently contains simple forms of Collateral Warranty to be issued by a Consultant or Contractor to a Tenant of a property.

  • Collateral Warranty (Consultant/Contractor to Tenant)

Increase margins and take on more work

Built for complex use cases, Clarilis is used by transactional lawyers to improve margin, increase capacity and decrease client turnaround times.

 


Clarilis is trusted by leading firms and organisations globally:

 

“Real Estate Plus provides automated documents that help facilitate transactions rather than cause delays over drafting and negotiation on points that clients are just not that interested in.”

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Ryan Davies, Real Estate Knowledge Lawyer, Gowling WLG

Clarilis Real Estate Plus solution differentiators:

  • Extensive set of deeply automated templates for commercial property investment and letting transactions - covering sales, full lease lifecycle, short-term occupation, options, pre-emptions, and collateral warranties
  • Available off-the-shelf, with no implementation required
  • Market-leading automation with both breadth and depth of solution
  • Fully maintained documentation, automation and guidance 
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“We tried another product prior to using Clarilis. We felt let down by this solution, as it still involved us having to spend a large amount of time manually drafting. We also found that a lot of the time, the agreements were landlord weighted, and therefore there was an awful lot of amendment required. This actually led to transactions taking longer.”

Jamie Connolly, Managing Director, Thomas Flavell & Sons 


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Frequently asked questions

What does it include?

The Clarilis Real Estate Plus solution contains over 70 deeply automated commercial real estate documents, across a range of different suites including the new lease suite, sale suite, surrender suite, options and pre-emptions suite, security of tenure suite, asset management suite, and construction suite. To see more details click here.

This out-of-the-box solution enables firms to draft complete sales or lease suites in under 10 minutes, and a whole range of other commercial real estate documents in minutes. 

Who has contributed to the content?

Clarilis Real Estate Plus contains precedents from both the Model Commercial Lease ("the MCL") drafting committee (with representation from a wide range of top tier commercial real estate practices) and Gowling WLG (who is also a member of the MCL committee).

Gowling WLG has drafted the additional precedents contained within Real Estate Plus:

- to be harmonious with the MCL documents; and

- to represent a fair market view, rather than necessarily Gowling WLG’s house view in particular areas.

The content is maintained in accordance with changes in real estate law and practice over time, and based on market feedback - i.e. Clarilis and Gowling WLG will evolve the underlying automation and precedents in line with feedback received from commercial real estate departments and the MCL drafting committee. 

Can I have it in my house style?

Real Estate Plus includes Clarilis’ extensive styling options as standard. These styling options enable firms to extensively customise the styling of documents drafted by Clarilis to match or in some circumstances closely mirror your firm’s house style, all whilst maintaining all of the benefits of centrally maintained content and automation.  

These styling options go way beyond changing the logo, font typeface and font size. There are over 170 options, across 80 categories, which Clarilis will configure for you as part of the onboarding process. Please speak to us for more details.

Where required, bespoke house styling is also available to 100% match your firm’s house style. This might be necessary where your firm’s house style contains non-standard content or formatting. Bespoke house styling is available by separate commercial arrangement. 

Is the automated content maintained?

Clarilis fully maintains the automation of the precedents and updates the content as and when content providers update the underlying documents. This includes: (a) all updates from the MCL drafting committee; and (b) all Gowling WLG updates to reflect the latest law and to ensure the precedents continue to reflect a fair market view. 

Real Estate Plus will evolve continually in line with the requirements of the commercial real estate market. 

What are the benefits?
The Real Estate Plus solution provides commercial real estate teams with the ability to draft suites of real estate documents in minutes. This improvement in efficiency enables firms to increase (or in some cases create) margins, delegate further, materially reduce turnaround times, and has enabled many firms to take on work they would have previously passed on, maybe due to fee earner bandwidth or aggressive market pricing. 
Are the automated precedents high quality?

The Real Estate Plus content is centred around the Model Commercial Lease (“MCL”) precedents with additional content from Gowling WLG, a firm with one of the top UK real estate practices, and also a member of the MCL drafting committee. 

Gowling has supported Real Estate Plus by drafting high quality supplementary commercial real estate documents to expand the scope of Real Estate Plus beyond leases. These additional precedents are drafted to be harmonious with the MCL documents, and to represent a fair market view (rather than necessarily Gowling WLG’s house view in particular areas). 

What is the difference between this product and the existing Clarilis MCL suites?

The Clarilis MCL suite includes the 19 MCL leases, the MCL Asset Management documents, and the associated MCL ancillary documents. The Real Estate Plus solution is a broader and more comprehensive suite of commercial real estate documents, including areas not serviced by the MCL documents (such as sales, lease surrenders, options and pre-emptions, security of tenure, and construction collateral warranties) and enhancing areas covered by the MCL, for example by adding an Agreement for Lease and Lease by Reference.  

We already use commercially available templates

That wouldn’t be unusual. Around 95% of our customers used alternative content before adopting Clarilis (and, we note, it’s not a binary choice, using some Real Estate Plus precedents and maintaining other client and ‘other source’ precedents suits many subscribers).  

Firms usually adopt Real Estate Plus not only for the quality and breadth of our commercial real estate precedents, but also because they come fully automated and maintained. This brings significant commercial advantages for firms using Clarilis. Many firms are struggling with very low margins in real estate work, driven by manual precedents, ineffective automations, and contracts that require extensive negotiation to appease both parties. 

Clarilis smashes that model, enabling you to draft balanced first drafts within minutes, increasing margins and delighting your customers. It has also enabled many firms to take on work they would have previously passed on, maybe due to the low margin or competitive pricing. 

But we know you will still use your existing content for many matters, and sometimes you will be required to use client paper, which is why we have priced Real Estate Plus so competitively. Typically, you only need to use Real Estate Plus twice per year per user to achieve a positive return on investment. That’s drafting two leases or sale suites using Real Estate Plus in a year per user in order for your subscription to generate a positive return. Find out more in our pricing and ROI calculator above.

We won’t use automation for all leases drafted - so is it worth it?

We know you may still use your existing precedents for many matters, and sometimes you will be required to use client paper, which is why we have priced Real Estate Plus so competitively. You only need to use Real Estate Plus twice per year per user to achieve a positive return on investment. That’s two leases or sales using Real Estate Plus in a year per person and it has typically paid for itself. 

 

Is it just aimed at big law?
Deep, valuable automations, i.e. those that provide real value and efficiencies, used to be the preserve of big law - those firms with deep pockets, endless resources, and KM lawyers to manage legaltech implementation and legal content. Due to the economies of scale Clarilis brings, Real Estate Plus makes automation available to firms of all sizes, from those with a handful of lawyers to the largest firms on the planet. And because the content and automation are all managed and maintained by Clarilis, the MCL committee and Gowling WLG you don’t need to worry about keeping the content or automation up to date with legislative or market changes – we handle this for you.
Can I use the lease ancillary documents with an existing non-MCL lease?

Absolutely, and many of our customers use the solution for exactly that. There is huge value in drafting lease ancillaries using Real Estate Plus even if you aren’t using Clarilis to draft the main lease. For example, if you are drafting from a client-specific lease precedent, you can still use Clarilis for the ancillary documentation. 

Can I see a demo?
Yes definitely! Get in touch with us to book a demo here.
Can we have a trial?

Absolutely. We can set you up with a limited trial of Real Estate Plus, with a view to your firm subscribing if Real Estate Plus meets your requirements. Click here to request a trial.

Do I need to install anything to use Clarilis?

No, there are no plugins or software required, if you can access the internet via a browser, you can use Clarilis. There is nothing to set up, no coding, no marking up documents, that’s all been handled in advance by our Innovation Professional Support Lawyers and our supporting automation team.  

Is it secure?

Yes, Clarilis is: 

- hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the UK;

- ISO 27001 certified by the British Standards Institute (BSI); and

- used by the largest law firms on the planet, having passed their rigorous Infosec processes. (Click here to see some of our customers). 

You can read more about our security here. 

Does it integrate with my DMS/ my client management system?
We avoid lengthy IT project rollouts by keeping things simple. Once you have created a draft document using Clarilis you can simply download the resulting Word and pdf documents directly onto your laptop/PC. From there you can save them into your DMS, in your chosen folder. Its exactly the same procedure as saving any other external document into your DMS.  
Is training provided?

Absolutely, we have full video training available on demand so your users can learn how to use the system. Not that in depth training is required, as one Partner from a client firm puts it, “if you can buy something on Amazon you can use Clarilis”. 

Don’t forget, as the content is provided deeply automated out-of-the-box, you don’t need to implement Clarilis, it is ready to go.  

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