Feature
June 21, 2017
With the failure rate of new restaurants hovering around 59 percent in the first three years of opening, it’s not surprising that restaurant owners are trying to come up with a hook—a theme, a specific type of ambiance, or discounts for certain groups or time periods in the day or...
Dos & Don'ts
June 21, 2017
An eviction right in your lease is invaluable if things go south with a tenant who fails to pay rent, but you could undo what might’ve been a hard-won right for you in negotiations if you accept some, but not all, of the overdue rent even after you’ve started the eviction proceeding....
Dos & Don'ts
June 21, 2017
Sometimes a lawsuit stems from someone being injured in your tenant’s space. Savvy shopping center and office building owners know that they can protect themselves by requiring the tenant to name them as an “additional insured” on their liability insurance policies. But if your...
Owner Loses
June 21, 2017
Facts: A shopping center owner and a restaurant tenant signed a lease for a certain amount of space. Under the lease, the tenant was required to pay monthly rent consisting of two components. The first component, called “Minimum Rent,” involved a flat, base amount calculated on the...
In the News
June 21, 2017
Commercial real estate brokerage giant Cushman & Wakefield’s global chief economist, Kevin Thorpe, has warned that an oversupply of office space is likely and that such a glut could become scary for a market that has only recently begun to recover from the economic downturn of nearly a...
