Back in November, 2016, we released a warning with my prescient article, “The Return of the Landlord Market”. Now, just 90 days later the evidence is in and it is incontrovertible. Case in point---Metropark, New Jersey with 18 properties consisting of 3.2 million square feet, the majority of which are Class A. The average rent in this market in 2014 was… Read More

The New Year is here and if you are an office tenant your escalation invoice is probably on the way. According to the lease, most office tenants are responsible to pay their proportionate share of increases in Real Estate Taxes and Operating Expenses above the Base Year (usually the first calendar year of the lease term). This seems all well… Read More

The reputation of business and financial advisors of all sorts has been taking quite a hit lately and the financial services industry in particular is feeling the heat. When the Dow Jones Industrial Average is at its all time high and investors are seeing the markets whipsawing up and down daily, they start to question the whole system. At times… Read More

In the face of economic weakness, many tenants in New Jersey are mystified by the rigidity and sudden swing of the office and industrial markets. When it comes time to renegotiate the lease, tenants are quite surprised to learn that rents in many markets across New Jersey are going up, and at a dramatic pace that we have not seen… Read More

  Anyone with kids knows Fall is the real New Year. But I think that New Year signifies a special time in the life of a business owner. The other New Year focuses on tax planning. The Jewish theme of this New Year is “Teshuva” which means “to return”. This New Year is about you! Every year we business owners get to… Read More