Category : Tenant Tips

Understanding Tenant Improvement Negotiations

  When tenants negotiate leases, they frequently focus on the basic numbers — the amount of the per square foot rent, the size of the space and the size of the tenant improvement allowance. However, seemingly small details can have a significant impact on the overall economics of the transaction — frequently outstripping what a..

When Subleasing Your Space is A Good Idea

  As you review your company’s commercial real estate holdings, you might find spaces that no longer suit your needs. In those cases, subleasing can help to blunt their impact on your bottom line. When you sublease out a commercial real estate space, your relationship with your landlord essentially doesn’t change. You remain obligated for..

Tactical Commercial Real Estate: Where Strategy Meets Execution

While having a big picture strategy is an important part of maximizing your company’s corporate real estate investment, the strategy gets executed in the area of tactical commercial real estate. The nuts and bolts of what is happening with your portfolio make up the building blocks that you need to achieve business goals. Here are..

FASB Lease Accounting and Your Business

  The Financial Accounting Standards Board, usually referred to by its initials — FASB — makes the rules for how companies in the United States do its books. Over the years, FASB’s standards have differed from those set by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) for use in other countries. As the world economy continues..

The Evolution of Commercial Real Estate

  Commercial real estate today bears little resemblance to the industry of 20 or 30 years ago. Once, the CRE industry depended on capital from a hodge-podge mix of investors that were either overly involved in the asset or that owned it for everything but the fact that it was real estate. Since then, the..