Of 31 commercial leases, 22 spell out the deadline and 9 do not mention it at all.
For every commercial lease, the deadline has to be derived from the wording: from a service charge clause, from a cross-reference, or from the absence of both. If the contract is silent, all that remains is the time elapsed since the end of the accounting period. This is rarely checked when the contract is set up; it usually waits until the fourth quarter, when all the statements fall due at once.
31commercial leasesThe property has 31 leases running, each with its own service charge clause.
3deadline variantsDeadline stated in the contract, left to a schedule it refers to, or not addressed at all.
9contracts without a deadlineNine contracts say nothing about it, so only the passage of time counts.
6weeks behindThe fourth quarter is already this far gone before the check even begins.
For the nine contracts without a deadline clause, 30 June of the following year goes into the diary on the day the contract is set up, not six weeks into the fourth quarter when all 31 contracts fall due at once. That is where the 45% less forfeiture risk comes from.
The 45% reduction in forfeiture risk is this agent's headline figure. The 31 contracts and the nine without a deadline clause represent a typical commercial portfolio; they are illustrative, not counted.