The majority of large companies here in New Jersey are back in the office.  That’s right! Many have hybrid work schedules, however, and so the look of the office is now becoming a much more open and group-friendly one, with less emphasis on private offices and even assigned seating. With smaller companies, we see a more diverse climate depending… Read More

    A decade ago, I wrote a series of articles about Dickstein Real Estate Services at 20.  It is now a decade later, and it is interesting to look back at what we got right and what we got wrong.  The most salient points I made were about how difficult it has been in the Garden State to upgrade… Read More

I am always surprised by the amount of trepidation and angst tenants experience when it is time to renew the lease. To begin with, most tenants don’t realize when renewing a lease that they, in fact, are in a place of competitive advantage. Many tenants act as if they have very little leverage at all— and the majority of them… Read More

  Here in the Garden State, we have a custom of charging office tenants for their tenant electricity use outside of the rent.  When gross rents are quoted, they are stated as “plus tenant electricity”.  New Jersey customs are a bit different from most of the country where the tenant electricity is included in the rent which is known as… Read More

Back in 2007, I wrote the Complete Survival Guide to Negotiating an Office Lease, (Secrets Your Landlord Doesn’t Want You To Know).  Since then, the world has changed.  What hasn’t is that many of the strategies and the techniques we outlined then seem just as relevant today, almost two decades later.   My perspective on lease negotiations is a bit… Read More