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New Accounting Standards Could Jeopardize Your Business
November 2010 BOSTON, MA – Impending changes for reporting commercial real estate leases may create a huge liability on your company’s balance sheet. If your company leases office or industrial space, you need to be aware of the proposed new accounting standards that may affect current and future commercial real estate leases.
Is Now The Best Time To Invest In Real Estate?
November 2010 BOSTON, MA – With property prices at an all time low, many companies are once again wrestling with the decision of whether to buy or lease their real estate.
Is It Time For A Lease Audit?
IS IT TIME FOR A LEASE AUDIT? By now, most commercial tenants have received their 2009 expense reconciliation statements of operating expenses and taxes from their landlords. Typically, tenants have 30-60 days after receiving these statements to give notice to the landlord if they wish to perform an audit. If a company is leasing office […]
Financing A Healthier Balance Sheet
FINANCING A HEALTHIER BALANCE SHEET According to Ronald Pollina, Ph.D., Chairman of the International Tenant Representative Alliance (ITRA), if your company has a good credit rating, owns and occupies its office or industrial properties, it may benefit from a sale/leaseback transaction “especially given the current global economic malaise.” The sale/leaseback solution allows your company to […]
It’s A Tenants Market: Take Advantage
IT’S A TENANTS MARKET: TAKE ADVANTAGE Many Companies can significantly reduce their office rents right now. This is not a government program, so please don’t call them. To be eligible, you have to be: 1. A tenant in good standing. 2. A Creditworthy Tenant. 3. Have a lease that terminates in the next two to […]
Green Buildings and Build-outs
GREEN BUILDINGS AND BUILD-OUTS CAN HAPPEN WITH TENANT WITH SUPPORT Improving energy efficiency, sustainability and creating healthier buildings are more than just agreeable apple pie goals. They are moral imperatives that are achievable. And it should be no surprise: going green actually contributes to bottom-line profits and worker productivity. More than a quarter of the […]
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