BYOBROKER

03/06/2012

With the national unemployment edging towards 8%, commercial real estate executives are hoping that this points towards better times ahead. According to CoStar, the Chicago office vacancy rate fe...

09/28/2011

http://byobroker.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/more-businesses-moving-back-to-city/

Motorola Solutions CEO Greg Brown is ditching the suburbs and is lobbying other companies to do the same. In an interview with Crain's Chicago Business recently he detailed plans to create as man...

08/18/2011

Accounting rules in flux

The Financial Accounting Standards Board, which sets American standards on accounting practices, is mulling over proposed changes to its generally accepted accounting practices (GAAP) regarding the...

08/17/2011

BYOBroker author in a CoStar ad

CoStarGo™ brings together features and content from our Property, Comps and Tenant databases in a single, seamless, location-aware mobile interface. It is ea...

08/02/2011

A trend back to the city?

As the office-space market slowly recovers, downtown Chicago is benefiting from a trend long in the making: companies relocating from the suburbs.

07/29/2011

Utilizing new apps for business

07/28/2011

CoStar released its Mid Year Office Leasing Report today and you can find it here. Among its conclusions were that despite 1) slower than expected job growth, 2) concern about the U.S. debt-ceiling crisis and 3) the European debt crisis, the office leasing market continues to make improvements. Wh

07/25/2011

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Over the last decade of representing office tenants in commercial real estate leases, one of my biggest frustrations has been every time I hear, “we don’t need a broker–we’re going to do it ourselves“. Eighty-five to ninety percent of tenants will always use a broker and recognize the value we bring

07/25/2011

http://byobroker.wordpress.com/2011/07/24/we-have-a-really-good-relationship-with-our-landlord/

Among the many reasons tenants have for not using a broker, this is one of my favorites. Landlords love it even more. Once a tenant tells his (her) landlord that they will not be using a commercial office broker, it basically signals to the landlord that they win. You don’t play hardball with fr

07/25/2011

http://byobroker.wordpress.com/2011/07/25/downtown-vacancy-lowest-since-end-of-2009/

Faithful BYOBlog readers (okay, I’m hoping you’ll find this site soon), when you see headlines like this you can be sure of two things: