TENANT REPRESENTATION
Through its Office Advisory Group, Colliers Bennett & Kahnweiler offers tenant representation services to local, national, and international clients. Moving beyond traditional brokerage activities, our professionals in the Colliers B&K Office Advisory Group engage each client in a more consultative relationship with careful upfront strategic planning prior to commencing a review of market alternatives. Our professionals identify creative and intelligent ways to reduce each client’s occupancy expenses, such as negotiating an early lease renewal to capitalize on market conditions or assessing a space plan for optimal efficiency. They tap into established relationships cultivated with all of the area’s top landlords to facilitate the negotiating process and to help achieve the most ideal lease terms. Armed with valuable insight relating to the occupancy goals of not only most landlords but also our clients’ neighboring tenants, our professionals are able to ultimately mitigate leasing risk and identify future opportunities long before our competitors.
Our clients are seeking greater flexibility and reward in their real estate commitments than ever before. As a result, we aggressively pursue maximum landlord concessions such as tenant improvement allowances and multiple lease termination rights. Your business is dynamic, ever-changing – and your real estate must allow you the flexibility to adapt to unforeseen circumstances and business conditions. Colliers Bennett & Kahnweiler will ensure that your lease commitment makes sense for your company now and long into the future.

AGENCY/LANDLORD REPRESENTATION
Through its Office Advisory Group, Colliers Bennett & Kahnweiler offers landlord/owner services to local, national, and international clients. Whether representing a single asset or entire portfolio, our comprehensive services are designed to facilitate the entire ownership cycle from property acquisition to marketing and leasing to disposition. Moving beyond traditional brokerage activities, our professionals in the Colliers B&K Office Advisory Group uniquely market properties not only to brokers representing tenants but also direct to the tenants themselves. It is this complete market penetration that allows the Group to most quickly reach qualified prospects. Full management capabilities are also available through the company’s Property Management group which currently manages nearly 17 million square feet throughout the Chicago area.
The experience of Colliers B&K’s Office Advisory Group professionals spans a diverse range of projects from existing properties to repositioning/redevelopment to new construction. Our professionals tap into established relationships cultivated with all of the area’s top office tenant representatives to facilitate the negotiating process and to most efficiently achieve ownership’s goals.
Our landlord representatives, averaging nearly 15 years of experience, are among the most recognized in the industry. In each of the past ten years they have been nominated or received the industry’s top honor, Landlord Representative of the Year, awarded at the annual Commercial Real Estate Awards dinner benefiting the Chicago Food Depository.

Success Stories
Colliers Bennett & Kahnweiler’s landlord representatives have achieved success while overcoming a variety of real estate challenges. A number of these success stories are described below.