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• Negotiating The Sublease

With changes in business strategies, a major existing tenant wants to sublease all or some of their rented office space to eliminate some locations and shrink operations in others. In this situation, the problem for landlords is whether it is a better strat...

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• Is Your Commercial Property Secure?

The problem of security is a major concern of owners or managers of office buildings or other commercial properties. There are many things to check both inside and outside of a property. Particular attention must be given to the perimeter of the ...

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• How To Handle Distressed Commercial Real Estate

It is hard to believe that someone can totally neglect a valuable investment property like a multi-unit office building or an apartment complex. It happens. The run down property may have been acquired from a seller who did not unders...

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• Important Differences In Commercial Real Estate Leases

​When there are vacancies in commercial buildings, tenants may feel that they are in a good position to seek concessions from landlords on new leases or in exchange for extending or renewing existing leases. Landlords are apt t...

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• The CPI Escalation Rental Clause

Putting a CPI (Consumer Price Index) escalation clause in a lease is to make the lease fair to both the tenant and the property owner. A primary benefit of escalation clauses is they help protect against diminishing purchasing power related to infla...