Retail isn’t Dead. It’s Just Moved into a Warehouse.
With the exponential rise in online sales over the past few years, and an expected additional increase of 54% by 2020 according to Forrester, retailers
Real Estate
Real Estate Strategy for Fast Growth Companies
Let’s consider the corporate headquarters of a fast growth service business. Suppose that 1) they have a preference for keeping everyone together in one contiguous
Playing Russian Roulette with Corporate Real Estate
When choosing professional services, there exists an old adage that the largest providers are the safe bets. “Nobody ever got fired for hiring IBM” was
The Eight P&L Impacts of a Corporate Lease
On many CFO and financial executive’s Urgent Issues or Focus List, real estate often doesn’t make the top ten. Why? I think in part it
How to Screw Up an Acquisition
Acquisitions often focus on just a handful of items: synergy, talent, perhaps geographic coverage and/or technology, and revenue of course. The investment bankers and attorneys
Commercial Lease Provisions: Tape on the Floor
Here’s a simple technique that has saved several dozen of our clients literally millions of dollars in lease costs, and is very applicable to the
What’s a Commercial Lease Renewal Option Worth?
It is a great time to be a tenant, somewhere. It just might not be in your particular market. But whether rental rates are going
A Better Way to Manage Commercial Office Construction
If you were around and fortunate enough to have a cell phone 30 years ago, you most likely had a Motorola “brick”. It made calls.
Two Ways to Protect Yourself on Lease Operating Expense Pass Throughs
I’m not crazy about condominiums. Here’s why: Other people (the condo association — which is often controlled by a very small group of individuals) get
Captive Tenant Syndrome
In a recent post, Newtons First Law, we discussed how the “house odds” favor landlords since the overwhelming majority of tenants renew their leases. Why? Because: OK,
