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Drones are already revolutionizing the commercial real estate industry. While much of the attention is getting paid to how drones for commercial real estate are enhancing how brokers list and market properties, the impact of drones may be even greater for the users and managers of those commercial properties.

There is more to an office lease than your actual space, as defined by its demising walls. Your space is only as good as the building common areas that lead to it. After all, it's hard to get to a suite on the 14th floor if you don't have a lobby to walk into and hallways to walk down. Possibly even more important than the common areas is the parking garage, ramp or lot that the building offers. Paying careful attention to the parking area -- and your rights within it -- can help to ensure that the office lease you sign is the right one for your company.

Sourcing new office space can be time-consuming and expensive, but the process can also yield real benefits. This is especially true if your current space is showing any of these five signs.

Having an entire building of office space built to suit your needs gives you a great deal of control over your tenancy. On the other hand, just because you can build whatever you want doesn't mean you should. As you plan your next build-to-suit project, here are three tips to keep in mind:

While corporate real estate departments can be close to optimize their portfolios, CFOs and other C-suite leaders are typically more open to paying closer attention to their real estate portfolios. After all, real estate expenditures are usually in a company's top three cost centers, while the long term nature of real estate obligations complicate strategic planning. Here are three reasons that the C-suite should lead from above when it comes to commercial real estate optimization.

While our industry is filled with knowledgeable professionals, like any other field, we aren't perfect. The odds are that your commercial real estate broker is skilled, dedicated and an expert. However, if you see any of these six signs, it could be time to start looking for another person to help you and your company with your needs vis-a-vis your portfolio.

As in many other industries, commercial real estate is rapidly becoming more about bits than buildings. At every level of the industry, technological innovation is driving changes in the ways tenants occupy buildings, managers run them and owners track them. Here is a sampling of the commercial real estate tasks that are being revolutionized by cutting edge technology.