I often think there’s a lot of baggage that comes with tenant-landlord relationships.

It is almost as if we are hard-wired to expect stereotypes; hard-nosed landlords and careless tenants. This leads to a lot of (more…)

Going green is fast shifting from being an optional extra to core business.

Across the Tasman, in the corporate world, green leases are becoming widespread; and there is a financial imperative, and incentive, in ensuring your lease has environmental sustainability built in.

I’m expecting in the very short term that (more…)

Some really creative solutions are coming out of the woodwork as businesses look for new ways to encourage people to lease or buy property – sometimes as a matter of sheer survival.

There have been a few post-crunch casualties; some deciding to (more…)

Some dramatic changes are set to take place in the office space landscape in Auckland’s CBD in the next five years.

Some significant new buildings will be coming on stream and we will see 250,000 square metres (that’s well over two million square feet!) of new office space become available between 2009 and 2013. (more…)

It’s such a common sight to see blood on the floor during lease negotiations between commercial tenants and landlords.

Relationships are often tense, and can remain so throughout the period of a lease agreement. Both parties can be caught up in an ongoing battle. It is almost as if we automatically expect relationships between landlords and tenants to always be fractious. (more…)