Financial Considerations

Some numbers help you make a decision. GRM helps you decide if a deal is even worth modeling. Gross Rent Multiplier (GRM) tells you how many years it would take to earn back the purchase price of a property using just the gross rental income. It’s not perfect, and it’s not deep, but it’s fast. […]

What’s a Waiver of Subrogation? Let’s keep this simple: a waiver of subrogation is a legal promise that your insurance company won’t come after the other guy if something goes wrong. It’s one of those clauses that seems small on paper but packs a punch in real life. Especially when the building’s on fire and

Most businesses require expensive equipment to function. The cost of this equipment leads many firms to lease instead of buy, and two major types of long-term lease exist. To make sound business decisions, it’s critical to grasp the relative merits of finance leases vs operating leases. We’ll explain both in the below article. Lease Terminology

Common Area Maintenance (CAM) charges are a necessary but often misunderstood component of commercial leases. For both landlords and tenants, these fees allow for shared spaces are well-maintained. However, that doesn’t mean it’s a cut and dry type of fee. It’s more often the case that their complexity leads to confusion, unexpected costs, and even

It can be easy for business owners to focus on the initial rental rate when signing a lease, but long-term costs can make for unwelcomed surprises down the road. A great example of this is the rent escalation clause. It determines how and when rent will increase over time. Landlords include escalation clauses to offset

Loss to lease represents the difference between the market rent a property could command and the actual rent being collected. This discrepancy often arises due to long-term lease agreements or outdated rental rates. For example, if the market rent for an office space is $50 per square foot but the current lease agreement only charges

Understanding lease costs, whether a snapshot or a deep dive, is something that many tenants (and landlords!) have trouble with doing accurately. This can be especially true with small business owners, after all, they have a business to run. Because of this, we’re introducing our commercial lease calculator, which includes NNN (Triple Net) expenses to

There’s a surprisingly low amount of current or accurate data online about specific valuations as it relates to commercial real estate. For that reason, we’re going to use examples to illustrate valuation methods to calculate an estimate yourself. While this information will vary based on a variety of factors, I’m also including examples with each