REoptimizer^® Blog

Whether your goal is an expansion, a relocation or to open your first office, you want to find a site that will suit your company's needs now and in the future. After all, the commercial lease process is time-consuming and frequent moves impact your bottom line. Keeping the following tips in mind will help to ensure that you find a site that works for you at a reasonable price.

Your commercial site selection is going to have a huge impact on your business, and you should get it right. In your office search and leasing process, site selection may be the most important activity. In this article, we will discuss the commercial site selection items to know.

Technology plays a big part in the way we identify the best potential locations in commercial real estate. Here are 4 ways technology can help with your commercial site selection:

Guest blog by Holly Welles. Holly is a real estate blogger interested in the ever-shifting landscape of the market. You can read more of her work on her own blog, The Estate Update, and follow her on Twitter @HollyAWelles.

Data centers typically occupy office or industrial space. However, their needs are very different from most typical office and industrial uses. As such, the site selection criteria that you'll keep in mind when looking for a data center are also unique. Below are the top four things keep in mind:

While pundits might make it seem like all that you need to do in your office site selection process is to find an urban space with character, the process is actually much more nuanced. Finding the right location for your office requires you to balance many different variables.

More than any other commercial real estate asset class, the actual characteristics of a retail site will have a large impact on the success of the business you put in it. Think about it for a second. If you choose an office building that is across the street from the "perfect" building, you might lose a hire or two or have a couple of customers inconvenienced, but the odds are that your business will do just fine. For a coffee shop, though, being located on the side of the street where afternoon commuters pass instead of morning commuters could be enough to make that business fail. With this in mind, here are some site selection tips to keep in mind.