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Continuing our Commercial Lease Fundamentals series, today’s topic is a breakdown of the four components of a commercial real estate lease. Component 1: Basic Lease Information Whenever I read a lease or a lease-related document, I like to think of myself as an investigative journalist... Read More »
Following up on last week’s blog article, The Four Components of a Real Estate Lease, today’s post explains the first part of what Realogic considers the first component, the basic lease information. Let’s consider the parties involved in a commercial real estate lease. Required Parties... Read More »
In last week’s article, we explored the different parties involved in commercial real estate leases and the roles each party is expected to play in a lease. For this post, I’ll tackle the intricacies of how Commercial Real Estate Leases define leased space, also known as... Read More »
Last week, we broke down the trickier parts of defining a commercial real estate lease premises over the life of the agreement. Although a lot of that information might seem obvious or commonly available, the most useful part may have been the timeline example of... Read More »
Today’s post is the 5th in the Commercial Lease Fundamentals series and the first article concerning the second of the Four Components of a Lease, namely Rent. The minimum amount of Rent to be paid (typically referred to as “Base Rent” or “Minimum Rent”) may... Read More »
In last week’s post, I introduced the basics of Base Rent in Commercial Real Estate Leases and offered all readers a chance to grab the quick and dirty Excel Base Rent Calculator I use when the lease administration application doesn’t have that built-in functionality. In... Read More »
Today is the return of the Commercial Lease Fundamentals Blog series for the first time in the new year. If you’ve stumbled onto this post without reading the first two months of the series, you can read through all the previous posts in our blog... Read More »
In this post, we have arrived at the topic of Operating Expenses, a component of additional rent typically paid by each tenant on a pro rata share basis. Most other items of additional rent, such as percentage rent, late fees, CPI and Porters Wage adjustments are... Read More »
After reading last week’s blog post about digging into operating expenses, it may appear that a landlord has free reign to pass along every expense they incur in the operation and management of a building. The truth is though that there are several conventions within... Read More »
Following up on the previous post about Caps on Operating Expenses, today’s post is all abut the often misunderstood concept called Grossing Up or simply Gross Up. The Gross-Up of operating expenses is a critical mechanism that allows landlords to equitably allocate operating expenses that... Read More »