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Brokers, We Want to Hear From You!

We’re interested in hearing from you, brokers! As we continue to grow, it’s important to us that any changes that we implement – however big or small – are always for the betterment of our users’ experience. That said, your feedback is critical every step of the way.

We invite you to participate in this short survey; it will take no more than 5 minutes of your time, we promise! Tell us how we’re doing, where we can improve, and most importantly, what we can provide to help you:

Take the Survey

So don’t be shy, we want to hear from you! You can also reach us at (800) 560-3544 or [email protected].

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Lookin’ for Tenants in All the Wrong Places

The Destination

It has been 18 months since we launched our pilot program for Tenant Rep Brokers and I’m thrilled to say that it has been an overwhelming success!  In fact, since we launched, others have tried to copy our model which is further validation of the market opportunity.  However, their captive audience isn’t necessarily tenants that are searching for space and is reflected in the quality of those leads.

2012 and 2013 were record years for us over multiple metrics and 2014 seems to be on the same overall trajectory, if not better:OfficeSpaceUserGrowthOfficeSpace.com continues to be the premier destination for tenants that are actively looking for space.

The Program

Tenant Connect is our broker marketing program specifically designed for tenant representation brokers from the ground up.  Our platform allows prospective tenants to reach out to our Tenant Connect Brokers directly as they are searching for available spaces while on OfficeSpace.com.  These inquiries or contacts can happen via email or phone and are tracked in our system and relayed directly to the broker.  It is truly a platform that works for both the Tenant and the Tenant Reps.  Best of all, as a tenant rep, you don’t have to do anything to source the clients, you just have to qualify and respond to the inquiries…something you all do currently.

Overall results for the past 18 months:

  • Approximately $500,000 in commission revenue generated for the broker
  • Over 6,500 contacts directly delivered to the broker
  • Over 115 closings with a large pipeline
  • Our broker churn rate is flat at 0%, everyone is seeing the value

The Journey

All our current tenant connect brokers are reaping the benefits of adopting early as they are all generating commissions and have secured their spot in their respective markets.  All our pilot cities are currently full but we are always building out wait lists.  Additionally, we make proactive changes to our tenant connect broker pools based on performance and user reviews, which helps us improve our tenant experience.

What some of our Tenant Connect Brokers have to say:

Overall – the use of OfficeSpace.com has enhanced my ability as a broker tenfold – I truly cannot imagine getting going without a tool like this.  My interest in inbound leads and how to qualify, nurture and then cultivate them has proven a great asset to Colliers –and an invaluable learning experience with your tool.  I look forward to many more years of successful partnership – and would encourage any and all feedback you have for me in the future. — Sam Devorris (Colliers, Denver)

(in 4 months) Have received over $30,000 in commissions my efforts have generated from the leads so obviously it has worked for me! — Scott Driver (Scott Driver & Company, Seattle)

The main reason for enjoying the TC Broker Program over the last two years is the ease of quality inbound leads and income, not just the immediate 5 figure deals but the future 5/6 figure deals when leases roll/renew/relocate.  I have never done a six-figure lease with Office Space yet, but in 2013 and 2014 so many deals were in the five-figure range. I also have a 62 month deal in the highest priced building in all of San Diego County today from an Office Space lead – anyone can call me about it, and I will note how easy it was to get.

In our competitive commercial real estate environment to have so many office leads come in that are coming from areas that you would otherwise have to be LinkedIn, be introduced, or network to meet the President or CEO, OfficeSpace.com is able to cut right to the front of the line.  

I recommend OfficeSpace.com to all tenant reps, the only problem is not all tenant reps can become a member, so I tell them in minutes to sign up or get back to LinkedIn, be introduced, or network. — Michael Mazzotta (XREIT, San Diego)

The Opportunity

We’ve learned over the past few years how to attract and keep prospective users on the site and we will continue to listen, learn, and refine our services.  The team at OfficeSpace.com is aggressively expanding our listing base throughout the nation and this will allow us to bring this platform to many more markets in the near future.

If you are interested in being a leader with entrepreneurial foresight, contact us for more information and reserve your spot as we offer this platform in your market:

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Don’t miss out like so many brokers in our pilot markets did, by letting the herd mentality take over.  Many of those that missed out was simply due to waiting to see who would join the program.

After all, where else can you tap into a steady profitable stream of prospective tenants actively looking for your help?

Where are you looking to find tenants?

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Meet, Eat and Learn with OfficeSpace.com!

What can I do to enhance my listings on OfficeSpace.com? Am I utilizing all of the services offered with my membership? How do I edit my listings and follow up on tenant leads? If you’ve ever asked yourself any of these questions or simply just want to learn how Officespace.com can help you as a real estate professional, we encourage you to attend our Lunch & Learn! We hold one monthly in the hope of providing professionals with additional education on our Broker tools and services. The hour long session covers everything from website navigation to services and tools that we’ve put in place to help you gain better access to active tenants and data. While we’re always available to provide support by phone or online, we understand the importance of face-to-face demonstrations – sometimes you just have to see it to understand it! And the best part? Lunch is on us!

For more information on our monthly Lunch & Learn, see below:

When: The last Wednesday of every month (mark your calendars for May 28th to attend the next one!)

Time: 12 PM-1:30 PM

Where: 1301 5th Ave, Suite 1717

RSVP Required? Yes. To RSVP, please send an email to [email protected] confirming that you’d like to attend anytime before the day of the session.

If you have any specific topics that you’d like us to cover in our next session, send them our way! We’ll make sure to add it to our agenda if it isn’t already included.

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Rates Continue to Improve in Seattle Office Market as Economy Strengthens

The year started on a high note for the Seattle office market with stronger vacancy and rental rates, as well as positive absorption by the end of the first quarter.

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With the strong economy in Seattle, vacancy rates improved to 13.50% compared to 13.68% in Q4 and 15% in Q1 of last year. Additionally, asking rental rates continued to improve to a high this market has not seen since Q3 of 2008.

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The quarter’s year-to-date absorption ended on a positive at 84, 809 square feet. Projected new office space inventory under construction jumped up to by 1.7 million square feet with two notable projects – 400 Fairview and Troy Block in Lake Union, 1007 Stewart Office Tower in Central Business District and Hawk Tower at Stadium Place in Pioneer Square.

To purchase the full quarterly report or for further information, please contact John Heimbigner at [email protected].

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Seattle vs Denver: OfficeSpace.com Super Bowl Edition [Infographic]

Who’s taking home the Lombardi trophy this weekend? The Denver Broncos or the Seattle Seahawks? It’s been the question on everyone’s mind for the past week, and Super Bowl predictions have been popping up everywhere. The team here at OfficeSpace.com wanted to join in on the fun and share our own predictions about who will come out on top. In the spirit of the upcoming game, we looked how these two cities stacked up against each other on our website (from the number of visitors to the number of leads generated) to predict the Super Bowl Champs.

Take a look at our infographic below to see how Seattle and Denver matched up on OfficeSpace.com over the past 6 months (and who we think is going to win it all this Sunday)!

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Brokers, This Lead’s For You.

You may not always be aware your listings are with OfficeSpace.com as your brokerage often utilizes 3rd party marketing groups to maximize your exposure! However, when you receive a lead from us, please take it seriously. Here are a few more details to familiarize you with the way our lead system works.

1. All leads sent from OfficeSpace.com are qualified and should be answered as soon as possible.
2. There is no hidden fee to access your leads or contact details from OfficeSpace.com
3. If multiple brokers are on one listing, the lead is sent to all involved. (*Please Note: All responses to this lead email are also viewed by the tenant so be sure to begin new correspondence with fellow brokers on said listing.)
4. See copy of sample broker lead below.

Remember to add your listings to OfficeSpace.com to reach tenants searching for office, retail and industrial spaces. Should you have any questions regarding listings, leads or how to receive the most effective exposure with our service please don’t hesitate to reach out:

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Close Encounters of the CRE Kind.

The OfficeSpace team had the pleasure of hosting it’s first home town event for the CRE community in Seattle this past week. It was an intimate evening with an open format for answering questions on our broker services, product demonstrations, all of course while engaging with everyone on the latest commercial real estate talk in the Pacific NorthWest.

Perhaps the most surprising comment of the evening was how fantastic it was to speak with our team in person. More than once we heard “How often do you get to speak to a website face to face?”.  Being in the internet game with our heads down, working hard to make our site as efficient and user-friendly as possible for both the broker and the tenant communities, we sometimes forget how important that face time really is.

It’s a recurring theme in the tech start-up community as we “Eat. Sleep. Breath.” with our computers  and our “Eat. Drink. Learn” event was a great reminder to stop, drop everything and talk…in person.  We look forward to continuing this trend as we grow and continue to answer your questions – face to face, over the phone and of course, online.

A generous thank you once again to our sponsors, Gateway Construction and Complete Office Furniture who provided some fantastic give-aways and support of the evening.

We even managed to snap a few shots of the evening’s festivities as posted below.


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2013 Didn’t Bring An NBA Team to Seattle, But It Did Bring…

What does Seattle have?  A thriving start-up community and established technology hub, world renowned coffee, an infamous independent music scene, a top ranked NFL team, the lush green of the Pacific NorthWest and so much more.

Sadly, 2013 did not bring back an NBA team, but there is a game changer in town. OfficeSpace.com’s long awaited new platform is about to change the way players in the commercial real estate arena engage with clients.

In fact, businesses and commercial real estate pros now have a new online stadium with OfficeSpace.com’s improved site and service for the Seattle market.

Since launching its new service 18 months ago, OfficeSpace.com has served thousands of tenants looking to lease office, retail and industrial spaces.  OfficeSpace.com allows tenants unrestricted searches of its comprehensive database with over 27,000 properties, at no charge, something typically not done in the traditional commercial real estate world.

Today, we are proud to launch our free service in our home market of Seattle.  “We felt this was a great time to launch as the business community is thriving and there are a lot of eyes on Seattle right now.” says Susie Algard, CEO. 

Businesses can now search from over 7,000 available listings in the Greater Seattle area. We expect the number of tenants coming to access these listings will grow quickly, as we are the city’s only commercial real estate site offering this type of platform.

The new site has a clean design aesthetic with an intuitive, user-friendly map based search, photo rich listings, and advanced search filters, all of which were created to make the tenant search experience much more engaging and efficient.

“With today’s launch, we are excited to be bringing more qualified tenants to the broker community.” says Algard. OfficeSpace.com’s new site was designed with these relationships in mind. The commercial real estate audience can benefit from several complimentary marketing tools, including nationwide tenant rosters, a no-software flyer creator, comprehensive market surveys, and upgraded property listings.

So, while the city sits waiting patiently for another opportunity to bring back the NBA, we’ll continue to up our game to better serve the Seattle market. We’re no substitute for a basketball team but we’re practicing our virtual jump shots none the less in hopes of a CRE MVP title.

OfficeSpace.com is now serving Seattle, Denver, Portland and San Diego with upcoming markets on the horizon.

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Brokers, Are You Still Walking Through Buildings?

Gone are the days of walking from building to building…

Search online, anytime with the latest from OfficeSpace.com as we introduce the prospecting must-have for the commercial real estate industry; The OfficeSpace Tenant Roster. Here’s to finally accessing up to date, reliable and affordable information on buildings and tenants through out the country!


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Interested in Earning a Free Membership?

Refer OfficeSpace.com Tenant Concierge services.

We’ve built out a trusted network of vendors, featuring reliable service providers to help businesses manage everything related to setting up their new office, retail or industrial spaces. We built this service to help tenants who come directly to us asking for help. If you have a client interested in saving time and money by connecting with our Concierge, please send them our way.

By the way, our Tenant Concierge service has no hidden fees or costs – it’s a complimentary service aimed at making tenants lives easier!

Contact us for more information on how to earn your free Tenant Roster membership. John Heimbigner | [email protected] | (800) 560-3544

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Calling All Tenant Reps!

So many inquiries, so little time

We’ve had a great 2012 and 2013 looks to be off to a fast start.  So much so that we are looking to expand our pool of Tenant Rep Brokers!

OfficeSpace.com has been extremely busy with our Portland, Denver, and San Diego launches and here is a brief summary of 2012:

  • Launched Portland, OR (Jan 2012), Denver, CO (June 2012), San Diego, CA (Dec 2012) AND
  • 243,000 visitors
  • 2,200,000 building views
  • 1,900 leads directly to listing brokers
  • Approx. 10,000 calls to listing brokers

We’re very proud of these results, however, we’re just getting started.

Destination for Tenants

OfficeSpace.com is where many tenants who are just starting to look for space first enter the market. We’re talking to these potential tenants, sometimes they simply request some marketing and listing contact information. Other times, these are tenants who are ready and willing to work with a Broker and this is when we send them to you. We are filling a void for tenants and they are finding us online.

Little Secret

As some of you may know, the OfficeSpace.com platform is open to nationwide listings even though we are focused on our home markets of Seattle, Portland, Denver, & San Diego.  In fact, we continually add new listings outside of our home markets and they are getting indexed.  In the last 30 days, much to our surprise, our non-home market web stats and lead activity has in some cases, surpassed our home market metrics:

  • 52% of visitor traffic was outside our home markets
  • 60% of our building views were attributable to our non-home markets
  • 30% of our leads & inquiries were generated from outside our home markets

The Opportunity

This is where you come in!

If you are an experienced Tenant Rep and would like to be part of our Tenant Rep Broker Pool, please email me at [email protected] with a brief bio and I’ll be sure to contact you.  Oh, by the way, our Tenant Rep Broker Pool is free to join but spots are limited, so secure your first mover advantage and get in early!

If you have listings, get them onto OfficeSpace.com, you will get indexed, you will get exposure, and you will generate leads.

With your help, we’re making finding and leasing space a smoother and easier process!