Kaden / Services / Office
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Practice
Retail Leasing & Sales
Office leasing,
structured for the long view.
From boutique floors to full-floor Class A footprints. We work with tenants and landlords who treat a lease as a strategic decision — not a procurement exercise.
Sides Represented
Landlord · Tenant · Seller · Buyer
Markets
The five boroughs · and beyond
How we work
Every side of every
retail deal.
Landlord representation
Building leasing, repositioning,
structure.
- Building-wide leasing strategy and tenant procurement
- Repositioning vacant or underperforming floors
- Lease structure advisory and concession benchmarking
- Tenant retention and renewal strategy
- Disposition advisory for owner-occupied or partial buildings
Tenant representation
Site search, lease negotiation,
occupancy.
- Headquarters and satellite-office site selection
- Lease negotiation including TI, free rent, and escalations
- Sublease evaluation and direct-lease comparison
- Build-out scope, TI allowance, and free-rent advisory
- Renewal negotiation and right-sizing strategy
The Practice
How office
leases actually
work.
The asking rent is a starting line. The deal lives in concessions, build-out, escalations, and the ten clauses no one reads until something breaks.
True occupancy cost over face rent.
A face rent of $90/SF is meaningless without the work letter, the free-rent period, the operating expense base year, and the escalation structure. We model true occupancy cost across the full term — and use that to negotiate.
Headcount math, not square footage math.
Tenants don’t lease square feet. They lease environments for headcount, growth, and culture. We work backward from how the team actually operates to what the right floor plate, ceiling height, and amenity package needs to be.
The clauses that decide whether a lease ages well.
Subletting rights, right of first offer on adjacent space, surrender clauses, holdover rent, and renewal options are where leases either hold up over time or become traps. We negotiate each as if you’ll be reading it again under stress — because eventually, you will.
Direct deals through ownership relationships.
We work directly with landlord representatives and ownership groups across Midtown and Downtown Manhattan, often surfacing space that hasn’t been broadly marketed — and placing tenants into floors before they reach the listing platforms.
What we look for
Four criteria for an
office lease worth
signing.
Four criteria for an office lease worth signing.
We evaluate every tenant search and every building assignment against the same framework.
i.
Floor plate that fits the team.
Loss factor, column placement, light, and ceiling height determine if a space actually works for how a team operates day to day.
ii.
Concessions that match market.
TI allowance, free rent, and base-year structures vary by submarket and class. We benchmark against current trades, not last year’s data.
iii.
Building reputation and tenant mix.
Who else is in the building affects everything from your daily experience to your team’s recruiting story. We weigh the neighbors.
iv.
Flexibility for growth or contraction.
Sublease rights, expansion options, and surrender flexibility are what let a lease survive a real business shift.
Asset types
What we transact on.
I.
Boutique floors
Smaller floor plates and partial-floor occupancies in well-positioned buildings — ideal for growing firms and creative studios.
II.
Class A full-floor
Headquarters-grade space in trophy and Class A buildings. Tenant representation and landlord-side leasing.
III.
Pre-built and turnkey
Speed-to-occupancy options for tenants who can’t afford a six-month build-out timeline.
IV.
Sublease and direct comparison
Side-by-side underwriting of sublease and direct opportunities to identify the best true cost over the planned occupancy.
The process
From brief to
occupancy.
Office searches typically run six to nine months. The work compounds early.
I.
Brief
Define headcount, growth assumptions, neighborhood priorities, and lease economics.
II.
Tour
Curated tour list public market, and off-market with underwriting on each option.
III.
Negotiate
Multi-party LOIs, then lease negotiation. Concessions, escalations, and clauses worked end-to-end.
IV.
Occupy
Coordinate with construction and architects through possession. Stay engaged through year-one issues.
Get in touch
Looking for office
space or to lease
yours?
Tell us where you are in the process. We'll tell you what's market, what isn't, and what the next move should be.
