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How to Conduct Tourism Analysis

Some trade areas have relatively consistent patterns of commerce activity year-round. Others fluctuate with annual events and seasonal demand. In popular tourist destinations, a trade area’s...

Navigating Lease Transactions

What You Need to Know About Lease Audits

Your real estate portfolio represents one of your organization’s biggest operating expenses. And if you’re not careful, you could wind up paying a lot more than you have to. Lease audits are a...

De-risking Site Selection Decision with Quality Data and Analytics

What You Need to Know About CAM Reconciliation

Common area maintenance (CAM) is what tenants pay a landlord to maintain shared spaces, such as lobbies, cafeterias, and restrooms. While every lease establishes the unique parameters for these...

The Retailer's Guide to Co-Tenancy

Empty store fronts or an incorrect tenant mix hamper a retailer’s ability to maximize their investments.  Retailers who want to attract new customers to increase

The Retailer's Guide to CAM Audits

Completing a CAM audit ensures your landlord is billing you correctly for common area maintenance. Don't leave CAM reconciliation money on the table.

Deferred Rent: What It Is and How It Affects Lease Accounting

Deferred rent is the outcome of making a lease payment that is less than its recognized expense on your financial statements. It typically results from free or reduced-rate rent periods, often...

Leasehold Improvements: What They Are and How They Work

Leasehold improvements are modifications to the interior of a leased building to make it more useful or desirable to the tenant. They are sometimes also referred to as build outs or tenant...

How to Calculate Percentage Rent in Commercial Leases

Percentage rent is a rent in which a commercial tenant pays rent based on a percentage of their gross sales, either in addition to or instead of a minimum base rent. It’s a standard lease payment...

Embedded Leases: What They Are and How to Identify Them

Embedded leases are an important component for accounting compliance. For some organizations, this is the greatest source of failure to comply with the new lease accounting standard leading to...

How to Simplify Lease Abstracts at Scale

A lease abstract is a concise summary and analysis of a lease agreement, providing the key provisions from lease documents in an easy-to-understand format. Lease documents tend to be extremely...