How You Can Find A Desk Space Around New York City

By Author: Julianne Nick
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One of my business clients has just moved to an exciting office space in New York. Their needs were met at the former office but it was far away from the home of the majority of employees.

As a result, part of my company's job was to help the clients find an appropriate office space for the needs of their business, yet an office that was located within the city.

Along the way I found a few bits of advice from www.office-suites.com to make life easier and to eliminate a number of complications for my client. So if you're keen to take up a brand new office space then here are a few things you may like to know in order to ease your transition to a brand new New York office space.

1) Grade A, B or C? In the American office space sector, offices are categorized as Class A, B, or C. In New York, Class A means one thing only: modern steel and glass high rises. Anything else is not Class A, even if it is a pretty duplex designed by a renowned architect. It's clever to be careful when viewing a potential property as a number of offices are advertised in a poor fashion using improper terms. Research as much as you ...
... can before arriving.

2) Step two: in finding an office in New York allow up to nine months. I am not kidding about this. It will take about two months to find the space, up to a month to negotiate the leasing agreement with landlords, two months to finalise the lease terms, another month for your building manager to design the build out and three months for construction. Keeping full control of your time management is an important part of office moving, so don't try to do too much in too little time.

3) The office you want won't exist yet. This is because an office needs extra attention and work to bring the office up to your personal specification. Usually you can use the fact that the office is not up to your standards as a way to get the owner to lower the leasing price of the office. Believe it or not, the owner will usually pay for the refurbishment work in most cases. So if you are on the look out for a Manhattan commercial property from www.office-suites.com then ask the broker if the owner will accommodate your requests.

4) Think about whether you need a broker? When taking commercial property, a broker will be paid by the owner and this figure is determined based upon a percentage of the overall lease. This is a lot of money for a little bit of work. So as soon as you announce that you want to relocate your firm to a new location, everywhere you look you will have brokers pitching to you. The really good thing about this scenarios is that they should really want to find you an office but it won't necessarily be the property or the price that you want.

Following the above advice and taking your time to research the market is a good way to find the type of property that would be ideal for your company.