Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the rent increase due to increased ground lease costs was contractually foreseeable and therefore permissible.
Extrahierter Entscheid
The tenants could not, in good faith, expect a sudden rent increase based on an unmentioned ground lease cost; the contractual basis did not permit the increase.
Extrahierte Begründung
The lease disclosed the benchmark mortgage rate, index level, and prior cost adjustments, which signaled the usual standardized bases for rent changes. But it did not mention ground lease costs, and the tenants were entitled to assume the listed bases were complete. A sharp increase of nearly 17% from a hidden cost item was not foreseeable under the contract and good faith.