Industrial leases often contain many business points which can greatly improve a company’s occupancy if negotiated effectively. In this post I suggest 10 ways companies can improve their next industrial lease to save money and time.

Tenants should approach early occupancy with situational awareness and caution. Relying on early occupancy in a lease can prove challenging in certain scenarios.

Three things tenants should consider when a landlord proposes they pay property maintenance fees as part of their estimated operating expenses.

With such a lack of available and vacant space to choose from, companies should pay particular attention to how they are negotiating possession and lease commencement in new lease agreements and how they are communicating with their current landlord if there is a possibility of holdover.

7 key points to help verify the electrical supply of an available industrial building will meet an operations requirements

Important information should always be verified, even if from reliable sources. Companies must prioritize the information they verify in industrial real estate projects.

Top 10 Tips for Negotiating Improvements in Industrial Real Estate Leases

In many ways insurance is an unsung hero in industrial real estate. It allows interested parties to insure themselves and other parties. Without it, the financial risks associated with the ownership of and operation within industrial real estate would be discouraging, if not disqualifying, to prospective industrial property owners and occupiers.

Starting rental rates are the most used financial metric in commercial real estate. Explore their significance in this post.

I will discuss some of the reasons why options to terminate are desirable, their common types and structures, and analyze their use in commercial real estate transactions. Lease termination options can be negotiated into some lease agreements under certain conditions. Perhaps more than any other option right, in order to successfully negotiate a lease termination option to terminate the party desiring the right must have an awareness of the negative implications for the other party, and a willingness to provide reasonable solutions to address those implications if required.

This post reviews why lease term matters in commercial real estate leases and how variance in lease term will impact common real estate metrics.