
A Reinvestment Approach to Budgeting As we continue towards the end of another budget season, many of us are moving through a marathon of long hours to create our budgets. We are working to create a budget that meets the needs of the building and the financ [...]
Building Safer Communities: How Tenant Town Halls Strengthen Emergency Preparedness There are two kinds of property managers: those who hear from their tenants only when something goes wrong, and those who have built relationships long before an emergency ever occurs. The difference often comes down to [...]
How to Investigate Changes to Your ENERGY STAR Score A major shift in a building’s ENERGY STAR score can quickly catch a property team’s attention. When the score changes by several points between reporting periods, the team may wonder whether equipment, operations, oc [...]
Sustainability in Facility Management: Challenges and Solutions Facility management is crucial in ensuring the effective and efficient operation of buildings and properties throughout the county. Environmental responsibility is seeing greater emphasis than ever before, and facilities [...]
SNDAs: Insights from the Lender Side When negotiating a lease, it is easy to skim the subordination clause and assume the boilerplate language is sufficient. A future lender, however, is likely to scrutinize that provision during loan due diligence. Landlor [...]
Can Your Building Handle Its Next Energy Load? The electrical demands on commercial buildings are changing. Electric vehicle charging, heat pumps, electric water heating, building controls, battery storage, and other technologies are adding loads to buildings that we [...]
Ways to Save: ENERGY STAR Tenant Space The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) began development of the ENERGY STAR Tenant Space program in 2018 and it was officially launched in 2020. It was created as a new way to assess and recognize environmentally [...]
Risky Business The Essential Components of Effective Property Management: Training, Emergency Preparedness, Vendor Relationships, First Aid, and Communication
Managing a commercial office building involves much more than excellent exp [...]
ENERGY STAR at a Turning Point For more than 30 years, ENERGY STAR has provided a common standard for evaluating and improving energy efficiency across the U.S. commercial building sector. In commercial real estate, its best-known tool is ENERGY STAR [...]
EV Chargers in CRE: Charger Types and Support “Every couple of years, we’ve heard that this will be the year for electric vehicles and chargers to take off,” said Glenn Kurtz, Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives with Legacy Parking. “I think we ar [...]
The Downstream Effects of Disaster Recovery Looking Beyond the Immediate Emergency to Protect Commercial Real Estate
When disaster strikes a commercial property, the first priority is always life safety. Once occupants are safe, attention quickly shifts to stop [...]
The Basics of Threat Assessments for Multi‑Tenant Office Buildings A Practical Guide for Property Management Representatives
Commercial real estate multi-tenant office buildings face a wide range of potential threats—from everyday criminal activity like theft and vandalism to more se [...]
The Core Elements of Active Threat Training: How Property Teams Should Prepare Most property teams know they should be preparing for an active threat, but they do not know where to start. As a result, they resort to training methods they are comfortable with, run a tabletop exercise with building l [...]
The 10 Percent of Assets That Consume 90 Percent of Your Maintenance Time Every building has equipment that seems to need more attention than anything around it. It might be a rooftop unit that prompts repeated service calls, a pump that needs constant repairs, equipment with hard-to-find part [...]
Industrial Real Estate and the Rise of On-Site Power When the Warehouse Starts Making Its Own Power
For most of modern industrial real estate, electricity has been a utility expense. A warehouse connects to the grid, pays for the power it consumes and relies on that conne [...]
Update on ENERGY STAR Transition from EPA to DOE On August 28, 2026, in accordance with the March 3, 2026, Memorandum of Agreement (MOA), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) finalized the 2026 ENERGY STAR Program Transition Pl [...]
The Second Life of Commercial Buildings Commercial buildings are designed around a particular purpose, but that purpose does not always determine the property's future. An office building can become housing or medical space. A former shopping center can become [...]
EXCELLENCE IN TENANT CARE: Redwood LIFE, Managed by Longfellow Real Estate Partners Redwood LIFE, based in Redwood City, California, and managed by Longfellow Real Estate Partners, received the 2026 Excellence in Tenant Care Award from CRE Insight Journal. The award recognizes properties for excellence [...]
EXCELLENCE IN ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY: Neuhoff District Neuhoff District, managed and owned by Cousins Properties, received the 2026 Excellence in Environmental Sustainability Award from CRE Insight Journal. The award recognizes a building that has recently undertaken signifi [...]
EXCELLENCE IN ADAPTIVE REUSE: 5555 Central Avenue, Managed by BioMed Realty 5555 Central Avenue, located in Boulder, Colorado, and managed by BioMed Realty, received the 2026 Excellence in Adaptive Reuse Award from CRE Insight Journal. This award recognizes both newly converted adaptive reuse pr [...]