We solve your
real estate problems.
Tenant Representation
DLS represents your company’s best interests, and only yours, the search, the strategy, and every point of negotiation, from the first conversation to a signed lease. The leverage comes from deep market knowledge, block by block, and from advising tenants exclusively, never landlords.
200+ transactions across an 18-year career. Representation is customarily landlord-paid, so it typically costs the tenant nothing.
Lease Advisory
Renewals, restructures, and expansions, with the leverage built before the conversation starts. The strongest outcomes are set in motion early: options mapped, timing planned, and the landlord’s incentives understood well ahead of a deadline.
Most renewals price best 12–18 months out.
Workplace Strategy
Before the search narrows, we translate how your team actually works, headcount, growth, the balance of focus and collaboration, into a clear plan: how much room, what layout, which trade-offs are worth making. You tour with a target instead of a guess.
Relocation · Expansion · Renewal · Disposition · Acquisitions · First New Office
We find the diamonds in the rough.
Discover
Consultation establishes the brief — space and building specifications, aesthetic preferences, the optimal structure and terms. We map how your team actually works today and where it is headed over the life of a lease, so the search is calibrated to the business rather than the square footage. Every assumption is written down and pressure-tested before a single building is toured.
Nothing is shown until the brief is right.
Research
A wide net, then diligent distillation — a comprehensive presentation of every option that fits the brief. We canvass the full market, on-market and off, surface availabilities before they are widely known, and reduce a noisy field to a short list that is genuinely worth your time. Each option is modeled on the terms that move money, not the asking rent alone.
The whole market, narrowed to what truly fits.
Negotiate
Experience, integrity, and attention to detail, converted into creative solutions and optimized terms. We negotiate from leverage built early — competing options kept live, the landlord’s incentives understood, and every clause read for what it costs across the full term. The work carries through the letter of intent, the lease, the build-out, and the renewal that follows.
Two hundred transactions,
one side of the table.
Eighteen years in New York office leasing, always on the tenant’s side. Enough negotiations across the table from the city’s landlords and their brokers that their playbook holds no surprises. The work runs from a first office to a full floor to a headquarters: startups scaling faster than their leases, established firms consolidating, and companies arriving in the city with nothing here yet. Many of them held in confidence.
“Dan just gets it — from truly understanding our needs and focusing us on high-value options, to protecting our downside as an active partner in negotiations.”
— CLIENT, NAME WITHHELD AT CLIENT’S REQUEST
Questions
What does a tenant representative cost a tenant?
In a standard New York office lease the tenant representative’s fee is customarily paid by the landlord out of the transaction, so DLS Commercial Real Estate’s representation typically costs the tenant nothing.
How does office tenant representation work?
DLS runs every engagement the same way: a discovery consultation sets the brief, an exhaustive search surfaces every option that fits, and terms are negotiated from leverage — objectives first, the tenant’s interests only.