how to find office space?

To find office space, use a well-organized and methodical strategy with deliberate planning and preparation to ensure the space fits your organization's current and future needs. TenantBase offers a guide to help with this process.

commercial office space leasing?

TenantBase provides a guide to help organizations find new office space, emphasizing the importance of deliberate planning and a methodical strategy to secure office space that meets both current and future needs.

How does TenantBase work?

TenantBase reverses the traditional commercial real estate model. Instead of spending weeks searching listings and contacting landlords, tenants share their requirements — location, size, budget, and timing — and TenantBase matches them with qualified local tenant-rep brokers and relevant market options.

What does a tenant-rep broker actually do?

Tenant-rep brokers provide market expertise, advocate exclusively for tenant interests, and manage the leasing process from start to finish — space selection, negotiations, and concessions — helping reduce risk and improve outcomes at no direct cost to the tenant in most U.S. markets.

What's the difference between a gross lease and a net lease?

In a gross lease, one all-in rent payment covers most building expenses. In a net lease, tenants pay base rent plus some combination of property taxes, insurance, and CAM charges on top. Those pass-throughs can add 30–100% above the face rate, so understanding the structure before you tour is critical.

Who are the Partner Broker Highlights?

Partner Broker Highlights feature trusted tenant-rep brokers in TenantBase's network — their background, market expertise, and approach to representing tenants. It's designed to help businesses find and vet the right local advisor before starting a search.

How does TenantBase help me find the right space for my business?

TenantBase combines technology with local tenant advisors to match searches based on headcount, growth plans, budget, and timing — streamlining discovery and helping teams lease space that fits their operational and financial goals.

Office Space

The Ultimate Guide to Finding New Office Space

Mike

January 25, 2018

Finding new office space is a perfect example of the need for deliberate planning and preparation. While it's always possible that the stars might align and the perfect office space magically falls into your proverbial lap, more often than not, it's those that employ a well-organized and methodical strategy that end up with office space that is ideal for their organization's needs.

TenantBase wants you to be one of those organizations that finds office space well-suited to both your current needs as well as those a few years down the road. To that point, we have prepared our Ultimate Guide to Finding New Office Space to serve as a roadmap on your journey towards finding ideal office space for your organization.

While we encourage you to check out the full guide to best take advantage of our expertise and insights, a handful of best practices should be enough to whet your appetite in the meantime.

Lay the Groundwork

Just like any effective strategy, finding appropriate office space requires a thorough grasp of your mission and goals. More precisely, you absolutely must have an understanding of how much space your organization will need, both now and in the future, as well as the specific office type, location, design, and amenities required.

Furthermore, analyzing and preparing your financials is a critical component in determining how much lease your budget can absorb. With a host of finer points like parking and furniture allowances as part of the mix, financial preparation entails much more than just simply printing out your current spreadsheets.

Narrowing the Field

Searching for appropriate office space requires a series of incremental procedures. Familiarizing yourself with the proper terminology will be of great benefit in helping you understand everything that is involved with the physical spaces you search as well as the often complex lease process. Of course, as evidenced by our invaluable Office Space Tour Checklist, conducting office tours requires a similarly methodical approach with attention to particular details.

A Bit of Insight Goes a Long Way

With additional steps like lease negotiations and the move-in itself, your search for office space obviously requires much more than a cursory look at classified ads and brief review of your financials. Spend a few moments reading our Ultimate Guide to Finding New Office Space, arm yourself with a concise and thorough understanding of what's involved, and begin your search for the new office space that will house your organization's success for years to come.