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The Office: A Strategic Destination

Today’s leading organizations are aligning workplace strategy with business strategy — ensuring their offices support financial objectives, employee experience, and future growth.

Top 5 Mistakes Tenants Make in Lease Negotiations

Lease negotiations can make or break your business’s financial health and operational success. Here are the most common pitfalls—and how working with a conflict-free tenant rep protects you at every step: Failing to Understand Market Conditions Many tenants overlook current trends in rental rates, concessions, and vacancy rates, leaving money on the table. Overlooking Lease … Continued

Office Trends Shaping 2026 —Suburban Market Showing Mixed Signals as Vacancy Challenges Persist

The suburban office market continues to show mixed signals as companies reassess workplace strategies and long-term office needs heading further into 2026. While portions of the Chicago suburban office market are seeing positive absorption and renewed leasing activity, recovery remains uneven and vacancy rates continue to stay elevated across many submarkets. Companies relocating or upgrading … Continued

Understanding Our Strategic Real Estate Process

What are the key phases of the lease process? How can tenants benefit from a conflict-free broker? The factors driving the office market evolution have created tremendous opportunities for companies looking to take advantage of today’s tenant-favorable conditions. As tenants map their needs for their future workplace, many are eager to learn more about a strategic process, … Continued

A Future-Ready Framework for Strategic Tenants

Corporate real estate portfolios are operating in a market that is far more volatile, tenant-driven, and data-dependent than it was before 2020. Workforce patterns, office utilization, and building performance have all shifted — forcing organizations to rethink long-standing assumptions about space. As companies look ahead through 2026 and beyond, the focus should move beyond simply … Continued

Office Renewal or Relocation: What Today’s Office Tenants Should Prioritize

Whether renewing an existing lease or evaluating a relocation, office tenants should focus ondecisions that protect flexibility, control long-term costs, and support how employees actually worktoday. In softer markets — like many office markets across the U.S., including Chicago — tenants who prepare strategically can create significant negotiating leverage, and working with at least 18-24 … Continued

When Building Ownership Changes or Enters Receivership

What should office tenants be thinking about when building ownership changes hands or enters receivership? Changes in building ownership — or the appointment of a receiver — can create uncertainty for office tenants. While these transitions often happen behind the scenes, they can have real and immediate implications for lease obligations, building operations, and long-term … Continued