Five practice areas across two focuses
Three practices center on office leasing itself; two more support the broader commercial side of the business.
Office Leasing
Tenant Representation
We negotiate on your behalf to find space that fits your budget, timeline, and growth plans — with no conflicting loyalty to the landlord.
Landlord Representation
Marketing, positioning, and leasing strategy to keep your building competitive and your vacancy periods short.
Property Management
Day-to-day operational oversight so ownership stays informed without staying hands-on.
Other Commercial Practices
Investment Sales
Acquisition and disposition guidance for investors, backed by current market data and NYC-specific deal experience.
Consulting
Feasibility studies, valuations, financial modeling, and transaction advisory services — before you commit to a decision.
Two ways to lease office space
Every search starts the same way — understanding your headcount, timeline, and budget. From there, the right path usually falls into one of two categories.
Direct Landlord Leases
Traditional office space, leased straight from ownership.
- Longer-term commitments, typically 5–10 years
- Full control over layout, build-out, and branding
- Lower cost per square foot at larger sizes
- Landlord-funded improvement allowances often available
- Best fit once headcount and growth plans are stable
Shared Space & Office Suites
Fully furnished, plug-and-play space through shared workspace and business-center providers.
- Move in within days, not months
- Month-to-month or short-term agreements
- Furniture, internet, and reception included
- Easy to scale up or down as headcount changes
- Best fit for smaller teams, satellite offices, or fast timelines
How we work, by practice area
The full breakdown behind each service, straight from our own playbook.
Tenant Representation
Office
From day-to-day functionality to end-of-year profitability, the office space you lease affects every aspect of your business. That's why at VB Porter & Company, our goal is to ensure that any space we show you not only meets such basic parameters as cost, square footage and location, but also takes into account less obvious needs, such as build-out flexibility, expansion potential, employee flow, and even your corporate image.
Once you've settled on a property, our years of experience give us the ability to act quickly in a highly competitive marketplace, negotiate effectively on your behalf, eliminate potential risks from your lease, and deliver a solution that minimizes your costs while exceeding your expectations.
Retail
When it comes to the success of your retail business, no single factor is more important than location. That's why at VB Porter & Company, we begin your site selection process with a comprehensive consultation focusing on everything from the desired size, style and image of your operation to a detailed profile of your customers, projected flow patterns, delivery requirements, growth possibilities, and more.
Once you've selected the site that best meets your needs, our retail professionals have the experience it takes to reduce risk, minimize costs and eliminate potential inefficiencies by swiftly negotiating the most advantageous lease possible. As a value-added advantage, throughout the selection and negotiation process, VB Porter's knowledgeable consultants will be available to advise you on areas ranging from construction to local business and tax incentives to a full spectrum of capital solutions.
Industrial
From warehousing to light industry to heavy manufacturing, every potential industrial site offers hidden risks and unexplored possibilities. At VB Porter & Company, our consultants are trained to recognize the often-overlooked elements that can directly affect your business operations and your bottom line.
Beginning with a detailed front-end consultation, we first determine the unique needs of your business. Then, utilizing our extensive knowledge of the market, we pinpoint the properties that are most likely to meet both your current needs and your future plans, taking into account details such as each building's zoning, and more. Finally, once your site is selected, our proven negotiation strategies work to eliminate unwanted risk and expense from your lease, securing the most advantageous arrangement possible. Throughout, should your business needs require it, VB Porter's experienced consultants are also available to assist with site development and customization, legal issues, financing, strategic planning, community board relations, and more.
Once you've settled on a property, our years of experience give us the ability to act quickly in a highly competitive marketplace, negotiate effectively on your behalf, eliminate potential risks from your lease, and deliver a solution that minimizes your costs while exceeding your expectations.
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Landlord Representation
Property Sales
Timing, accuracy, advantageous terms, and a fully qualified purchaser. These are the elements that every property owner looks for in a real estate transaction — the elements that VB Porter & Company has the expertise to deliver.
From retail to residential to commercial and from industrial holdings to vacant land, at VB Porter, our experts are uniquely qualified to find interested buyers for your unique property, to effectively assess potential purchasers, and to rectify or eliminate potential problems before they can have an impact on your sale. Of equal importance, our skilled brokers have the proven negotiating skills necessary to enhance your bottom line by delivering the most effective contract at the most advantageous price.
Property Leasing
Whether you're leasing office, retail, residential or industrial property, nothing is more important than maximizing the return on your investment. At VB Porter & Company, we understand that this means far more than merely maximizing rent rates. It means acting quickly, to minimize vacancy times. Negotiating effectively, to eliminate potential losses from often overlooked clauses. Delivering leases that are as enforceable as they are advantageous. And, most importantly, finding and signing only the most financially qualified tenants possible.
As your agents, VB Porter's experts are able to help you determine the most effective rental rates, based on a detailed knowledge of the market. They can provide you with essential information on the finances, history and character of potential tenants. And they can enhance the overall quality of your tenant roster, thereby enabling you to attract increasingly desirable lessees. All of which can generate substantive and measurable bottom line results for your business.
Investment Sales
Whether you're considering a retail, residential, commercial, or industrial investment — or vacant land — the right information is what makes it the right investment. At VB Porter & Company, our deep market knowledge helps you maximize returns and guides you through every stage of the selection and purchase process.
We start with a detailed consultation covering zoning and tax codes, financing options, capitalization rates, price trends, and local market conditions. From there, we use our listings, contacts, and expertise to pinpoint only the properties that meet your goals — saving you time and resources. Once you've selected a property, our negotiation approach works to minimize risk and secure the best possible price.
Consulting
Highest and Best Use / Feasibility Analysis
Determining the highest and best use of a property means applying real estate economics to weigh supply, demand, and the range of possible uses for a given site. VB Porter Consulting has the market expertise to assess the attributes and risks of a development concept and identify the most viable path forward.
Lease vs. Buy Analysis
Economic, business, and market factors all weigh into the decision to lease or buy. We help identify the issues that matter most for your situation and rank them by impact, including present-value analysis. Where debt and equity financing come into play, our Investment Sales team can help you work through the details.
Transaction Assistance / Developer Selection
We assist public and private institutions through the real property transaction process, including analyzing the present-value impact of negotiated terms and preparing or evaluating Requests for Proposals (RFPs). For municipalities and government agencies, we provide fast, accurate, and unbiased feedback on how a developer's RFP response aligns with strategic goals.
Construction Cost Estimates
Using the Marshall Valuation Service cost benchmarking tool, we estimate construction costs for planned and proposed projects. Paired with lease-up and operating estimates, this analysis supports internal rate of return and residual land value calculations that inform the planning process.
Litigation Support
We bring real estate litigation experience and market expertise to provide credible testimony when it's needed.
Financial
We build detailed, complex financial models to support a wide range of real estate decisions.
Valuations
We provide real estate appraisals and valuations for loans, foreclosures, tax certiorari, and eminent domain proceedings.
Property Management
Of the five major expense categories in operating a building — insurance, taxes, personnel, utilities, and mortgage — a knowledgeable property management team can reduce costs in all but the last. From minimizing expenses to maximizing income, and from maintenance to lease administration, effective property management requires the integrated, experienced approach VB Porter & Company provides.
Your portfolio is never passed down to junior staff — the specialists you meet with are the same specialists who handle your day-to-day operations. Drawing on deep contacts and years of experience, we review and reduce costs across everything from utilities, building supplies, and construction to insurance and taxes, all while maintaining optimal occupancy at rents at or above market.
Our property management services include:
- Rent and occupancy maximization
- Lease administration and contract management
- Tax, insurance, and vendor cost reduction
- Bid process management for utilities, supplies, and services
- Code compliance and construction oversight
- Tenant relations, retention, and termination
- Payroll, billing, and collections
- Legal advisement
- Property accounting and financial reporting
Every service is delivered with the same commitment: integrity, and a long-term view toward enhancing the value, utility, and marketability of your property.
Direct space calculator
Plan a build-out room by room, then roll it up into total usable and rentable square footage.
The actual amount of usable square feet required may differ due to varying conditions such as floorplate configuration, column spacing, and circulation areas. The actual amount of rentable square feet required may differ depending on the allocations of common areas in a given building.
| Space Type | # Units | Dimensions (Space Size) | Total Size |
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| Small Meeting Room | — | ||
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| Small Reception | — | ||
| Copy Room | — | ||
| Pantry / Break Room | — | ||
| Files / Library | — | ||
Circulation and add-on percentages are typical NYC office ranges — adjust to match your specific building. Contact us to verify against a real floor plan.
Suite pricing calculator
Convert between square feet and square meters, and get a quick monthly cost estimate at a given rate — built for comparing plug-and-play suite offerings.
Figures are estimates for planning purposes only. Contact us for a formal proposal specific to your target space.