Is business booming? Has all your hard work begun to pay off, and you now find yourself poised for expansion? If so, congratulations! That’s great news indeed and cause for celebration.
Of course, expansion also brings with it certain challenges. After all, finding the right office space for lease near Fairfax, VA to expand into is not a trivial task, especially if you don’t have an in-depth knowledge of the area.
It’s not rocket science and if you’re willing to put the time into it, you can do enough research to gain a deep understanding of the area, identifying the best areas of town to look for property in, and just as importantly, learn which areas look great on paper but are beginning to slowly decline.
Every city has its ebbs and flows and each market is different, and it can take a considerable amount of time to reach a sufficient level of understanding that you can buy or lease property with confidence. In practice, most of the clients we work with would rather spend that time focusing their energy on their business, which is why they choose to work with us.
We’re a locally owned and operated company that’s been proudly serving the region since 1978. In that time, we’ve grown to become the top-rated real estate brokerage house in the area, and nobody knows the market better than we do, which means we’re uniquely positioned to help speed you on your way to finding the right office space for lease near Fairfax, VA to expand into.
If you decide to work with us, the first thing we’ll want to do is sit down with you and talk to you about your business so we can gain a better understanding of what you do, what your particular needs are, and what kinds of budgetary constraints you’re operating under.
Where finding the right office space for lease near Fairfax, VA is concerned, there are no cookie cutter solutions because every business’ needs are unique. The more we can learn from you, the better we’ll be able to help you.
Once we’ve gained a firm understanding of your needs, we can use that information to generate a list of property options that meet your needs at a price you can afford.
Listing sheets are marvelous things and they contain lots of great, hard-hitting information. Armed with the selection we give you, you’ll be able to at least make some preliminary decisions about which properties you’d like to learn more about.
As good as the listing sheets are though, there’s no substitute for an in-person tour of any properties you’re genuinely interested in, so once you’ve had a chance to look over the selection and narrow the field, we’ll be happy to take you around in person to see as many as you’d like to.
That’s the best way to get a feel for not only the space itself, but the ease of access, the parking situation, the employee amenities on offer, the quality of the neighborhood, and little details like how many restaurants there are within a short distance of the space, which is something your employees will no doubt find important!
Once in a great while, after touring a handful of properties on your list of finalists, one of them really jumps out at you. Everything about it seems perfect. The location is great, there are major roads nearby which makes getting to and from the office an easy proposition and there’s a lot about the location that your employees will love.
In those cases, making a final selection about the office space for lease near Fairfax, VA you want to move into is an easy task. It almost feels like the decision makes itself.
The reality though, is that most of the time it doesn’t work out that way.
You may wind up seeing half a dozen properties before you narrow your search to a final two or three contenders. Each one of them has aspects you like and certain things you’re not so crazy about, so there’s no clear winner in the bunch.
In those cases, making a final selection can be a real challenge and usually, it comes down to the particulars of each lease agreement.
If you don’t have a lot of experience with lease agreements, they can seem like black boxes. They tend to be quite long, and they’re filled with dense legal language that can make gaining even a basic understanding a daunting proposition.
It’s doable, but you’ve got to be willing to spend a couple of days pouring over the details.
Unfortunately, if you’re trying to compare two or three properties to make a final decision, that means you’ve got to do that for each of the lease agreements of the properties you’re considering, and then you’ve got to dig even deeper so you can make an apples to apples comparison between them to work out which one is offering you the best terms overall, and that process can easily stretch out to occupy weeks of your time, which can be frustrating to say the least.
We have a solution for that problem in the form of our lease guidance service, which we offer to every client we work with.
Our agents work with leases on a regular basis, so they’ve got the skills and experience to help you cut through all the complex language and get right to the heart of the matter. Once you’ve narrowed your search to a few finalists, we’ll be happy to sit down with you and go over each lease agreement for every property on your short list, helping you distill the particulars down into pertinent bullet points.
From there, it’s substantially easier to compare one with the other, finally arriving at the perfect office space for lease near Fairfax, VA for your business. Working with you in this manner, we can shave days, and perhaps even weeks off of the process, which means you get to spend more time focusing on the details of the expansion itself and getting your people moved over to the new location.
Depending on the scope and scale of your business, you may be interested in doing more than simply leasing space. You may be interested in purchasing a piece of commercial property, using the space you need and renting the rest out to other area businesses, and we can help with that too.
In fact, we offer a comprehensive concierge service for people looking to invest in commercial real estate in our area. It can be a frightfully complex process, with unexpected roadblocks seeming to appear out of nowhere.
Our goal is to simplify it as much as possible for you, which is why we’ve carefully cultivated a robust network of service providers in a variety of different fields. If you need help filing the paperwork, we’ve got you covered.
If you need a permit, we can help you get it. If you’re looking for an understanding lender who can get creative to help you finance the project, we can do that too. You’ll have access to our entire network if you need it.
Once you complete the purchase, if you want to manage your new property yourself, we applaud your initiative. Doing so will provide you with invaluable hands-on experience.
At some point though, most of the clients we work with find the day to day demands of property management to be too time consuming to make it worthwhile. It simply distracts you from growing your business further, which is why we also offer a property management service to all our clients who need it.
Ours is a data driven approach that has been refined over the span of more than four decades, and which is focused on maximizing the return on your investment and minimizing your vacancy rate. We handle all the details from finding top quality tenants for you, to handling the building maintenance and accounting.
Whatever your needs are where commercial real estate is concerned, whether you’re interested in leasing or buying, we can help, and we’re just a phone call away.
