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Category Archives: Leases
Don’t Treat Your Lease Negotiations Like a Poker Hand
Everyone knows that to get the best deal terms you need to create competition for your requirement. This applies whether you’re talking about cars, a business or your next office lease. To create competition, you need to have viable options. … Continue reading
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Why Exclusive Brokerage Relationships Benefit Tenants
Up until the late 1980s, commercial real estate brokers identified available space in the market either (1) through listing work that they were performing for their landlord clients or (2) cold calling to other brokers and landlords. While residential brokers … Continue reading
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What the 2018 Super Bowl Champions Can Teach Us About Leasing Office Space
The pieces seemed perfectly lined up. Carson Wentz, the protégé, second-year viable-MVP candidate quarterback, a well assembled group of offensive tools, and a brilliant defense had perfectly coalesced around a young head coach who understood not only how to design … Continue reading
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You Would Never Agree to This– But, Yet You Just Did
For some reason, many tenants continue to put themselves in conflicted situations with their brokers that they would never allow or even consider in any other aspect of their life or business. Is it because they see other tenants doing … Continue reading
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Coworking Spaces and the Future of Philadelphia Real Estate
It seems like every week we’re hearing about another coworking company taking space in the region or a company branching out into this business line. In addition to the most well-known WeWork, Regus, and MakeOffices and the regionally based Benjamin’s … Continue reading
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Don’t Put All Your Eggs in One Basket (Part 1 of 2)
Part 1: The Limits of Traditional Negotiating Techniques Have you ever read a book about negotiating? Maybe you’ve read a lot of them. Did you try the techniques that the authors espoused? How well did they work for you? When … Continue reading
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Why a Broker Isn’t Good Enough
“The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.” ― Socrates A lot can be learned from reading a dictionary. It reveals the origins of words and uncovers the true essence of what things are. This is especially true when … Continue reading
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Dual Agency Brokerage Under Attack in California
Mary Smith, a salesperson at ABC Brokerage Company, is the listing agent for space in a building owned by Big Owner. In the marketing flyer for the space, Mary states that the space is 20,500 sf even though she knows … Continue reading
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Office Market: Why Philadelphia’s West Market Corridor Will Stay Strong
A few years ago, a lot of people were pointing to 2017-18 as the time when the Central Business District (CBD) office market might start to soften up, providing relief to tenants who might be looking for space. A “perfect … Continue reading
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The Sins of Our Past May Be Coming Back to Haunt Us
The Great Recession of 2008 seems like a distant memory to many of us. The Dow Jones is flirting at 20,000 up from a low of 6,300 and the real estate market, which many blame for the demise of the … Continue reading
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