Real Estate lease question -Assignment/ Assumption

Commercial Real Estate lease question

We are selling a small busuness in a mall in Florida. 
The existing lease will be assigned to the Buyer.

The Mall landlord wants to charge $5000 for the assumption / assignment doc and service.

Who pays for this?
The Buyer or the Seller?
What is the norm?

Thank you
[{"id": "iku9dr8", "text": "Your lease should specify what, if anything a landlord can charge to document/process an assignment. $5k is pretty high for a run of the mill assignment. For context, I've typically seen $2k and those leases would have been fairly large office and industrial leases. Note that the documentation should take a lawyer less than an hour to draft, so most of this cost typically goes to paying for the landlord's time to review your buyer's financials to make sure they're a credit-worthy tenant. $5k makes me think the mall is struggling and the landlord is leveraging you for additional income.\n\nIn my experience, there isn't one way this is typically handled. You can ask the buyer to pay it or split it with you, given that you're both benefitting from the assignment.", "replies": [{"id": "ikwbe0y", "text": "The landlord is requiring you to pay for their cost to review the deal. They need to determine if the covenant of the assignee (buyer) is as strong as the assignor. Basically, there may need to be a requirement by the landlord to the seller to indemnify the rents for the remainder of the term of the lease.", "replies": [{"id": "ikxycax", "text": "Good point, and this is likely expressly stated in the assignment provision.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ikucstg", "text": "Who\u2019s idea is it to assume the loan and what type of loan plays a part. I just sold a large multi family I had in Florida that had an interest only mortgage that I was locked into, so as the seller I agreed to pay the assumption fee. It was also 5k. But I would agree with there is no straight answer on this", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ikuo9bi", "text": "$5k is definitely high. Check to see if that is stated in your lease or just ask the landlord to reference the section. If it's in there, I'd still probably push the landlord to reduce it. Wherever you end up, splitting the fee with between assignor and assignee makes sense.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ikuqta7", "text": "It's in your lease.  It is typically the Seller and very common.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ikut6u1", "text": "The tenant, but you can probably split it with your buyer if you can negotiate that with them.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ikwl3um", "text": "The assignor typically pays. Agreed that 5K seems too high. I\u2019ve seen 2.5K processing fees, but even that is on the steeper end.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]