The Metro Phoenix Office Market remains in disarray at the midpoint of 2021. Companies (small and medium-sized) are coming back to work, signing new leases and getting back to a new normal. Other companies (often large ones) continue to kick the can with short-term renewals, downsizing as leases roll, or trying the sublease market. The …
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Over the last year, we have all had to adjust our thinking. Personally, I’ve spent quite a bit of time thinking about how I could better insulate me, my family, my team at Coppola Cheney and my companies from the scary times created by the pandemic. I settled on the below thoughts and created the …
We are very excited to share with you that Craig has been awarded the 2020 NAIOP Award of Excellence. Only one person in our industry per year receives this distinction. The purpose of this award is to recognize an individual who has made extraordinary contributions to the Arizona commercial real estate market over his or …
For over 30 years, I have been telling tenants they should use me and my team to represent them. The first question I need to answer is, why do I need a broker? Below is a graphic we created for people who want to know why they need to engage a broker for their …
The pandemic certainly took its toll on the Metro Phoenix Office Market in Q1. The numbers tell us it was the worst quarter since the Great Recession (2008): Net absorption (new office space taken by job growth) went negative for the third quarter in a row, at -550,000 SF; sublease space increased at the highest …
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One of the first questions we get asked when we are working with a tenant is how long the process will take…..The answer is usually longer than you think. We created the below infographic to show a sample of our step-by-step process, the time it takes to accomplish and decision makers involved. There is a …
In commercial office leasing, there are a number of ways owners charge rent and operating expenses. We always negotiate how operating expenses are accounted for and charged to the tenant when we work with you on your office lease. Below is a graphic we created to show the range of lease types and where the obligation resides (with the Landlord …
Goal setting is what I do and then I track those goals with a religious fervor. 2020 proved to be a crazy, crazy year for goal setters. Not for Coppola Cheney. We put our heads down, took care of our clients, made the year about working hard for them and their issues.After the year ended, …
Tenant Advisory and now National Tenant Advisory was formally created in 1982. Today, office tenants across the US with as few as 5-10 offices in different markets are hiring firms to handle their real estate portfolios. There are many reasons, but here are a few thoughts on why companies do this: Tremendous time savings Single …
Below is one of my favorite graphics we have created. By using this visual, I can explain a complicated commercial office lease term to a client in 3 minutes. What we show in the graphic is a comparison of expense reconciliation methods for Full Service leases. While there are other methods, one point we ALWAYS negotiate is …
