Don't Let Lease Assignment Defeat Your Right to a Sublease Commission
SITUATION
A shopping center tenant hires a broker to find somebody to sublease 5,100 square feet of the space it’s leasing. The listing agreement names the broker as the tenant’s exclusive agent and provides for a 6 percent commission in the event:
- The space is “subleased”; or
- The tenant’s underlying lease with the shopping center is cancelled.
QUESTION
What’s wrong with this listing agreement?