Real Estate Best Practices
Industrial Lease Expiration Checklist & Considerations
An industrial lease expiration can be daunting for any business. It often prompts several questions that take time and energy to answer. Our team at Cresa has been involved in helping companies answer these questions for over thirty years. To help our partners and clients organize their thoughts, we created the checklist below. Answering these…
Read MoreConstruction Update – February 2022
Over two years into the pandemic and there has been a negative effect on significant number ofindustries. One of those industries is construction. The pandemic, along with the Suez Canal blockagefrom the Ever Given container ship, showed us how quickly an event can affect material availability andimpact project timelines and budgets. Like many, there was…
Read More4 Things You Should Know This Tax Season
Happy tax season! (Just us? Your office isn’t celebrating with donuts and balloons?) But seriously. Most companies need real estate to do business, and we should all pay our fair share of taxes on that real estate. So how do you know if you’re actually paying a fair share? This time of year, real estate…
Read MoreCommercial Real Estate Strategic Planning
It’s an exciting moment for companies when a real estate decision is made. Whether it be purchasing land for new construction, buying an existing building, or signing a new lease. That transaction and the resulting space will play a critical role in your business. It will be the space where your business comes together to…
Read MoreConflicts of Interest
Conflicts are abundant in many areas of life. If prior to any endeavor, you had an opportunity to eliminate a potential future conflict, wouldn’t you take the proper steps to ensure you did so? Many brokers in commercial real estate have landlords and tenants as their clients. In this situation, how could a tenant be…
Read MoreDefining Occupier-Centric Services
The commercial real estate industry and its supporting services can be complex to navigate. That’s why our team at Cresa feels it’s important to reinforce that companies who lease or own their space deserve the best representation. In an effort to continue educating our clients and partners, we sat down with Cresa Minneapolis advisors Mitch…
Read MoreDo the Right Thing: My Career at Cresa Minneapolis
What does it take to be successful in commercial real estate? For me, the answer has stayed the same, even as the industry and our city has evolved: Do the right thing. Earlier this year, I was honored to be named on the Twin Cities Business list of Notable Women in Commercial Real Estate 2020.…
Read MoreHow Our Team Uses Smartsheet to Manage Corporate Real Estate Projects
At Cresa Minneapolis, we use Smartsheet to streamline and transform our work with our commercial real estate clients.
Read MoreHow We’re Disrupting the Corporate Real Estate Industry
What’s your favorite secret in the Twin Cities? Maybe it’s a bakery you hit for doughnuts every Saturday morning before the crowds roll in. Maybe it’s the tiny barber shop where you’ve been getting regular haircuts for years. Or if you’re a parent, maybe it’s your on-call babysitter whose number you guard under lock and…
Read MoreHow We Help Companies Rethink Their Real Estate Strategy
One day a few years ago, we got a call from a longtime manufacturing client. “We need your help,” he said. “We want to buy the land next door to build a new building. Could you make this happen?” He was asking us to help his company execute something pretty simple. Cresa is a real…
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