News · Civil law · – July 2026

Commercial leases: rent adjustment, withdrawal and refusal to renew

TOPIC
Leases for non-residential use (Law 392/1978) — duration, goodwill indemnity and adjustment clauses.

The minimum term is six years, renewable; at the first expiry the landlord may refuse renewal only in the exhaustive cases provided by Article 29, paying the goodwill indemnity (eighteen or twenty-one monthly instalments for businesses in direct contact with the public). The tenant may always withdraw for serious reasons with six months’ notice.

Rent adjustment is allowed up to seventy-five per cent of the ISTAT index, save for the derogating agreements permitted in leases of longer duration or higher value; clauses departing from the law are replaced by operation of law within statutory limits.

IN PRACTICE
Always check written form, registration and the fairness of the adjustment clause; the goodwill indemnity is not due in case of the tenant’s withdrawal or notice.

Summary note by the CommercialistiAvvocati network, based on specialised legal and practice sources. The text does not reproduce original contributions and does not constitute professional advice.

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