Brokerage services
Find and evaluate commercial space for your business
A productive commercial-space search begins with the business requirement, not a list of addresses. MacVaugh helps businesses define what they need, identify and compare locations, evaluate occupancy economics, and negotiate lease or acquisition terms.
You may be opening a location, moving, expanding, downsizing, renewing, or deciding whether to lease or buy. The useful starting point is the same: describe how the business will use the space, what the location must accomplish, and when the premises need to be ready.
Pasadena is our back yard. We represent landlords and sellers across the greater Los Angeles area, and tenants and buyers—depending on the size of the requirement—across Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and Ventura counties.
Define the requirement
Before touring, clarify:
- Business and intended use
- Preferred locations and acceptable alternatives
- Approximate usable and rentable area
- Move-in timing and lease term objectives
- Budget and cash available for improvements or moving
- Customer and employee access
- Parking and public transportation needs
- Visibility, signage, loading, power, ventilation, or other infrastructure
- Delivery condition and improvement needs
- Questions about use and permitting
Not every point must be resolved before the search begins. Identifying the unknowns prevents an attractive but unsuitable space from driving the decision.
Compare more than asking rent
Two listings can quote rent on different bases. Full-service-gross, modified-gross, Gross, and NNN labels may allocate expenses differently. Utilities, janitorial service, parking, improvements, deposits, scheduled increases, and other obligations can change the total occupancy cost.
The physical comparison also matters. Rentable area is not necessarily usable area. A less expensive space may require more construction, provide less efficient layout, or fail an essential access, use, timing, or infrastructure requirement.
Review current opportunities
See current lease and sublease listings
If the current public inventory does not contain an exact match, describe the requirement anyway. A requirement discussion is distinct from a request about one listed property.
Tours, proposals, and lease review
A tour helps test the requirement against the actual space and building. If an alternative remains viable, the comparison can move to proposed terms, physical condition, delivery, costs, timing, and the lease documents.
MacVaugh can help organize and negotiate the real-estate terms. Legal, tax, accounting, construction, and permitting questions should be reviewed by the appropriate professionals.