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Commercial Lease Advisory Services

Cost optimization leveraging lease administration and lease audit

Time is money—and so is space. How can recalibrating lease administration reduce risk and drive cost efficiency for occupiers? How can real estate investments achieve their full value for their investors and operators? Explore how our Commercial Lease Advisory Services can help you evaluate the accuracy, integrity, and performance of real estate leases and assets.

From occupier to investor: Corporate real estate challenges

Commercial lease management is dynamic. It requires an organization’s real estate department and lease administration team to be adaptive toward ever-changing market conditions, accounting and reporting requirements, and system changes.

On the other side, commercial real estate investors and their asset managers often have broader concerns, such as leasing, loan requirements, performance tracking, and investor relations. Deeper dives into the accounting books and records to enhance asset-level performance can often take a backseat to these broader concerns.

Deloitte’s Commercial Lease Advisory Services provides outsourcing support and project-based support for both occupiers and investors. Our services are designed to meet your organization’s needs today, and to grow and evolve with you as your needs change.

More information on outsourcing support can be found:

Go up a few floors: Explore our Commercial Lease Advisory Services

Deloitte’s services for occupiers are designed to reduce risk related to leased real estate. Our real estate professionals are experienced, aided by working knowledge in operations, administration, and accounting. It’s our goal to assist commercial real estate departments and their lease administration teams in assessing the accuracy, integrity, and performance of their real estate leases at either a single-asset or portfolio level. These services, which are customizable to suit each organization’s specific circumstances, include:

Lease audits
• Lease language reviews
• Lease administration consulting
• Lease abstraction and data confirmation
• Strategic lease positioning assessments

Take a closer look at our offerings for occupiers and learn how they can help your organization in-depth.

Our Commercial Lease Advisory Services for investors are designed to enable effective and efficient real estate performance. Deloitte’s real estate professionals are experienced, aided by working knowledge in accounting and operations. Primarily a blend of testing and monitoring, the offerings include analyzing a significant sample of lease documentation, cash flow analysis, compliance testing, and forensic accounting - tailored to fit an investor's asset makeup. Importantly, these services provide investors and asset managers the confidence that their property accounting records and operations are sound and in good standing:

• Accounting and economic testing
• Operational compliance monitoring
• General risk assessment and mitigation activities

Explore the full list of services for investors and learn how they can lead to increased investment values.

More than just floor space

Why use Deloitte’s Commercial Lease Advisory Services? We’ve:

  • Real estate acquisition advisory services
  • Assisted real estate investors with over $50 billion in commercial real estate transactions
  • Abstracted more than 100,000 leases for critical data related to both operational and accounting purposes in 38 languages
  • Worked with and implemented more than 15 lease administration and integrated workplace management systems
  • Created global impact, having performed services covering more than 50 countries across major geographies, including the Americas; Asia Pacific; and Europe, Middle East, and Africa
  • Performed more than 10,000 lease audits over the past 23 years, resulting in more than $250 million in savings for our clients

Driven by integrity—not incentive

Services similar to those outlined here are often offered for “free” or at steeply discounted rates by real estate brokerage firms who are primarily focused on performing lease transactions for organizations. But having a team with incentives based on the transaction isn’t necessarily impartial or unbiased. Deloitte provides the opportunity for an objective segregation of duties between transactions and real estate departments.

To start a conversation about your real estate and advisory matters, please reach out to us.

Contact us

John Solomon
Managing director
Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP
jsolomon@deloitte.com
+1 202 378 5172
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Mary Oommen
Senior manager
Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP
moommen@deloitte.com
+1 212 436 2558