When Leasing Office Space in New York City
Your Business Deserves the Highest Quality Real Estate Brokerage Representation.
Let Me Show You the Difference.
Best In Class NY Real Estate Brokerage Service.
Anyone can get a real estate license. But successfully transacting a New York commercial office deal requires a level of expertise most don’t possess.
With a 30-year track record at the world’s largest real estate firm, I offer my clients best-in-class resources, deep industry relationships, and high-level negotiating power. Let’s discuss your leasing requirements and devise a strategy for a successful execution—at no cost to you.
Best In Class NY Real Estate Brokerage Service.
Anyone can get a real estate license. But successfully transacting a New York commercial office deal requires a level of expertise most don’t possess.
With a 30-year track record at the world’s largest real estate firm, I offer my clients best-in-class resources, deep industry relationships, and high-level negotiating power. Let’s discuss your leasing requirements and devise a strategy for a successful execution—at no cost to you.
Beyond Listings
Why My Expertise is More Valuable than a Space Search Feature
Everyone enjoys browsing for real estate on the internet. However, my website doesn’t offer a search tool—it offers 30 plus years of market-leading expertise.
There are over 400 million square feet of office space in Manhattan, and all brokers have access to the same listings. But in New York, the space is only half the story. Identifying the right situation, with the right landlord and negotiating a deal that allows your business to thrive requires more than a database; it requires elite level relationships and institutional resources.
I offer my clients a comprehensive education on the market and the complex economics of the lease transaction. My focus is on ensuring your lease makes sense from a financial and operational standpoint for years to come.
You get the full weight of my experience and my firm’s resources—at no cost to you.
Beyond Listings
Why My Expertise is More Valuable than a Space Search Feature
Everyone enjoys browsing for real estate on the internet. However, my website doesn’t offer a search tool—it offers 30 plus years of market-leading expertise.
There are over 400 million square feet of office space in Manhattan, and all brokers have access to the same listings. But in New York, the space is only half the story. Identifying the right situation, with the right landlord and negotiating a deal that allows your business to thrive requires more than a database; it requires elite level relationships and institutional resources.
I offer my clients a comprehensive education on the market and the complex economics of the lease transaction. My focus is on ensuring your lease makes sense from a financial and operational standpoint for years to come.
You get the full weight of my experience and my firm’s resources—at no cost to you.
The Reality of Leasing in New York
Most companies begin an office search by looking at available spaces.
That feels logical. It is also where leverage is lost.
In Manhattan, buildings do not compete the way tenants expect.
Two spaces with identical rent can produce completely different financial outcomes depending on how the lease is structured. The economics of work allowances, escalations, renewal language, and operating expense calculations determine the true cost of occupancy — not the asking price.
Landlords understand this system in detail.
Tenants usually encounter it only a few times in their business life.
The purpose of tenant representation is not access to availability.
It is understanding how decisions are actually made inside ownership groups and positioning you correctly within that process.
How Tenants Usually Lease vs How Leverage Is Created
The Typical Approach
Companies tour buildings, compare rents, and negotiate improvements on a single preferred space. The landlord understands they have been selected and negotiations become incremental rather than strategic.
The Strategic Approach
We design competition intentionally. Buildings are selected based on negotiating posture, not appearance alone. Landlords respond differently when they believe a tenant can credibly choose another property.
Why Listings Are Not the Advantage
Transactions occur when a landlord needs a specific outcome — timing, tenant mix, vacancy absorption, financing, or internal portfolio balance. Those motivations are rarely visible in marketing materials, yet they determine where meaningful concessions exist.
My role is identifying where motivation exists and aligning your requirement with it.
That alignment is what produces free rent, construction contributions, flexibility, and protection in future years.
The Structure Behind Every Successful Lease
Understanding the Requirement
We define not only size and location, but future change. Expansion, contraction, and exit possibilities are addressed before the search begins.
Creating Market Position
Buildings are chosen based on negotiating posture. Competition is established early so proposals develop under pressure rather than persuasion.
Structuring the Transaction
We evaluate economics beyond rent: expense exposure, escalation structure, renewal protection, and long-term occupancy cost.
Lease Protection
Language matters more than concessions. The lease is shaped so business changes do not become real estate problems.
Cost of Service
My services do not add cost to your transaction.
In commercial leasing, the landlord pays brokerage commissions regardless of whether a tenant has representation. The question is simply whether that compensation supports the landlord’s negotiator alone or includes an advisor protecting your interests.
Choosing not to have representation does not save money.
It removes advocacy.
Before committing to a building, it is worth understanding what leverage you actually have.
We can review your timing, requirement, and options and determine whether the market currently favors you — or the landlord.