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Invisible Real Estate Costs

How to root out "invisible" real estate costs lurking in your portfolio

Choosing the Right Real Estate Firm

How do you determine if a real estate firm is a great fit for your Company?

Lease Audit

Understanding Lease Audits and who would benefit from them

Real Estate Brokers

Getting the most out of your real estate broker

Rolling Out Multiple Locations

As the adage goes, “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time”.

Case Studies

Unlocking the Value of Brownfield Property

WestPoint Home (formerly WestPoint Stevens), a manufacturer of bed linens, bath towels and other home soft goods.

National Contract Leads to Streamlined Process

Avon Products, Inc., a $10+ billion global manufacturer and marketer of cosmetics, fragrances, toiletries, jewelry, apparel and home furnishings.

Resourcefulness Solves Zoning Problem

EmployBridge, a national employment services company with a portfolio of complementary brands, including ProLogistix, ProDrivers, ResourceMFG, Resource Accounting, Personnel One, and Staffing Solutions.

Recovering Lease Overpayments

WestPoint Home, a $1.7 billion maker of bed linens and home soft goods.

$4 Million Lease Dispute Resolved

Spherion, a $2 billion recruiting and staffing company providing temporary, temp-to–hire and direct-hire help, in addition to professional and executive recruitment, to a variety of fields including Accounting/Finance, Human Resources, Engineering, Legal and Technology.

Podcasts

Choosing the Right Real Estate Firm

Learn how to determine if a real estate firm is a good fit for your company

Hidden Real Estate Costs

Learn how to root out invisible real estate costs lurking in your portfolio.

Smart Words

Flex

You can reduce occupancy costs by introducing more flex space. Using flex space will decrease the number of permanently assigned offices or workstations, decreasing the average space used per employee.

Options

You want to stay in the leased locations that perform well - and cut loose the ones that don't. But what about those in the middle? For those, you want options.

Leverage

Now – as in right now – is the time to leverage the current economic crisis to generate more value out of your leased property locations.

Class

Trading down the class of property you lease could smash your occupancy costs.

Class (redux)

We think this savings opportunity is worth repeating.

A few of our clients...

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Outsource

One way to increase operating flexibility and accelerate cost savings is to outsource repetitive tasks.

Class (redux)

We think this savings opportunity is worth repeating.

Alert

The FASB (U.S. accounting standards body) is working on a significant change in lease accounting standards.

Audit

Save time and money by hiring specialists to periodically audit your leases.

Metric

Which metric best defines the true worth of your leased property?

TARP

Outside of Wall Street, TARP really means “Tenant’s Audit Rights Provision”. Do your leases contain this crucial protection?

Prune

A sure way to improve your bottom line is to prune your portfolio regularly. Each year, rank every property using a reliable metric.

Feedback

Feedback is a critical part of learning and learning is the first step to improving.

Feedback (Results)

In our most recent Smart Word email, we asked for your feedback on several questions. A brief summary of the results are below:

Class

Trading down the class of property you lease could smash your occupancy costs.

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