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Commercial Real Estate Leasing and Deal Terms

Terms that explain commercial property deals, leasing structure, tenant improvements, and income-producing space.

Commercial real-estate pages explain the vocabulary used for offices, retail space, industrial buildings, mixed-use projects, and other income-producing property. This section focuses on lease structure, deal negotiation, operating-cost allocation, build-out responsibility, and the terms that make commercial property read differently from a residential transaction.

These pages matter because commercial property language is often more negotiated, more document-heavy, and more cash-flow-oriented than everyday homebuying vocabulary. Readers who understand the residential side of real estate often still need a separate mental model for tenant improvements, expense pass-throughs, letters of intent, and lease economics.

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Core Concepts In This Section

  • triple net lease
  • letter of intent
  • tenant improvement allowance
  • build-out
  • percentage lease
  • common area maintenance