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Boston vs. Seattle: Who Would Win the CRE Bowl?
The Seattle area and the Boston area are in the national spotlight this week due to an annual sporting competition. Maybe you’ve heard of it. In the United States, the Super Bowl is more popular than...
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How Virtual Reality Technology Can Transform CRE Marketing
Business is booming, and your operations are growing fast. Along with the chaos of everything going on in your company, you’re in the midst of contemplating a move to a new, bigger facility. The last...
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Is Your Rent-to-Revenue Ratio on Target?
Better metrics, better decision-making for CRE Most companies use a few basic metrics when comparing various office locations from a transactional standpoint or attempting to benchmark the performance...
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The Coming of Tech Tenants: Who Will Benefit and Who Won’t?
Is tech really the demand driver for office space we hoped it would be? Be careful what you wish for. The experts tell us things are looking up in many of the sectors that have shown flagging...
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Five Problems With Flexible Working
Flexible working sounds great: I can work from home, take care of the kids and work in my PJs! Plus: Tomorrow’s workspace: The future is now | Tallest office buildings in the world But some companies...
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US Office Market Outlook the Strongest Since the Recession
Even though the recession officially ended in June 2009, it hasn’t felt like much of recovery in the U.S. economy or office market — until recently. On the economic front, total employment didn’t...
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Negotiating the Tenant Improvement Allowance
Get as much as you can and maintain control of the build-out process A key component of any lease negotiation is the tenant improvement allowance provided by the landlord to build out or retrofit an...
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How Education Is Subverting the Workplace
If you don’t currently have a child in primary school, you probably don’t know what’s starting to happen in the classrooms across Australia and how it’s going to affect workplace design in 10 years’...
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Office-to-Residential Conversions: Risks, Rewards and Real Estate Darwinism
Combine a soft office market with an office building that has a bleak future, and you have a conversion opportunity. Will this trend stick around when office vacancies stabilize? In any given market...
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Are You a Big Business? Better Watch Your Back!
Virtually anything we do today can be tracked, monitored and stored in the heart of a server that sits like a big, grey battleship of a data center somewhere on the edges of the cities we live in. In...
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Six Attributes That Make a Great Workplace
Welcome to the third in a series of four blog posts aimed at explaining how to attract and retain Millennials by examining workplace attributes. In my first post, I explored the macro business shifts...
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I Don’t Work for Free
The truth about leasing commissions One of the discussions many commercial real estate agents don’t like to have with their prospective clients revolves around the subject of fees or commissions. I...
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Three Ways Your Workplace Can Improve Your Productivity
“A country’s ability to improve its standard of living over time depends almost entirely on its ability to raise its output per worker.” – Paul Krugman, “The Age of Diminished Expectations” Paul...
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How ‘A’ Is Your Class A Building?
The term “Class A space” used to have a certain cache. As office space becomes increasingly commoditized, you have to examine where your building is positioned to attract or retain Class A tenants....
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Don’t Overlook Parking When Negotiating Your Office Lease
The common areas are supposed to be the areas of the building complex that are available to all tenants and their clients, visitors and customers for the convenient operation of the business in the...
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Reimagining the Traditional Office
Welcome to the fourth and final post in a series of blog posts aimed at explaining how to attract and retain Millenials by examining workplace attributes. In my first post, I explored the macro...
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Five Pillars of an Authentic Workplace
Have you noticed that more consumers are now looking for authenticity in their products? In simple terms, consumers want to know the story behind the product as much as the product. It’s no longer just...
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Common Reasons Why Open-Plan Office Spaces Fail
When it comes to the open-plan office, both supporting and opposing viewpoints cancel each other out. Those in favor of open plans cite increased interaction among colleagues and decreased square...
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Should I Own or Lease My Office Space?
When is the right time to buy your office space instead of lease it? This is a question I have heard many times from clients over my career, typically when lease rates are at historical highs or...
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The Live-Work-Play Paradigm Is Incomplete
The ubiquitous phrase “Live-work-play” (LWP) has increasingly become a standard by which successful mixed-use developments are measured. But a couple of key things are missing! Live-work-play was not...
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