If you need office space, but not sure how much or for how long

One idea is, using your exclusive tenant rep broker, to go after office subleases that might be much larger than your initial requirement but can accommodate your growth longer-term, and then make aggressive offers (yes, I know this will irritate some listing  agents) 50% or even 25% of asking…in today’s market there may be Sub-landlords willing to get something which is more than the nothing many of them will end up with. Your broker can also ask for a termination option if the space doesn’t work out, is still too large, or something else changes. A Sub-landlord may consider this to be preferred over having the space just sent vacant and no sublease rent coming in. This may not work in all markets, but where there is a deluge of office sublease space it may be worth the effort!