When you sign a commercial lease, your hope is probably that you and your landlord will co-exist in a state of perpetual harmony. However, that isn’t always the case. Even in commercial properties, landlords and building managers can vary greatly. To protect yourself, consider working with your corporate real estate agent and your attorney to..

A tenant improvement project is both exciting and harrying. The most challenging part is getting the space negotiated, designed, permitted and built before you need to move out of your old space. The key to managing the process is to get an early start. Preparing to Lease In a perfect world, your company would have..

If you’re part of a company who is constantly seeking to cut back on the most expensive aspects of operation, it’s time to start looking at your corporate real estate portfolio.   As a major expense for most companies, evaluating occupancy costs throughout your corporate real estate portfolio can be the key to freeing capital..

Mergers and acquisitions can provide synergy throughout both merging organizations. However, they can also pose a range of logistical challenges. Managing a corporate real estate portfolio in the face of a merger is especially challenging: the needs of the company organically change and the portfolio has to be actively managed to serve those changes. While..

One of the challenges of starting and growing a business is finding the right space. After you have narrowed your new commercial space down to a few options, for the most part, you have met your due diligence requirements—budget, type, location, and size. Now comes the daunting part—negotiating the lease. Even if the local market favors buyers,..