The Mid-Lease Reset: How to Renegotiate Before Your Lease Expires
Many office tenants assume their lease is fixed until expiration. In a narrow legal sense, that may be true. But in a soft market, the best opportunity may not be waiting until the lease expires. The best opportunity may be inside the lease you already have. The Market Has Changed. Your Lease Might Not Know […]
Should We Stay or Should We Go?
Every office tenant reaches the same moment. The lease is coming up, the space is not perfect, someone has seen a better building, someone else thinks moving would be a disaster, and the landlord wants to talk renewal. Before long, the question lands on the table: should we stay, or should we go? That question […]
Is Now a Good Time to Sell Commercial Property in Sacramento?
So Is It a Good Time to Sell? Here is the real answer to that question: it depends. And honestly, if you own a stabilized asset — strong tenants, market rents, no deferred problems, clean operations — why are you selling it in the first place? A well-performing commercial property that cash flows reliably is […]
Understanding Cap Rates in Sacramento Commercial Real Estate
Spend more than ten minutes around commercial real estate investors and you will hear the phrase “cap rate.” It is one of those terms that sounds more technical than it is — and one that gets misused more often than most people realize. Cap Rates: CRE 101, With a Warning Label A cap rate — […]
Renewing or Relocating Your Office? Do Not Start With the Space.
I’ve sat across from a lot of tenants who came to me after they already started looking at buildings. The lease was expiring. They needed space. So they started touring. It felt productive. It wasn’t. The office lease process doesn’t start with the building. It starts with the business. Start With the Business, Not the […]