Why Read The CFO’s Guide?

Corporate real estate is an interesting business, one where many executives believe that they completely understand how it works. While the principals of corporate real estate are simple (buy low, sell high!), the execution of a company’s real estate plan can be quite complex, and requires business savvy, foresight, and specific expertise.

The CFO’s Guide: To Understanding Corporate Real Estate Transactions, the second in a series of CFO’s Guides from Real Estate Strategies Corporation, is a no-nonsense book containing straightforward writing on 26 topics that respects your experience and busy workload, and endeavors to efficiently convey as much useful information as possible.

What you’ll discover in The CFO’s Guide: To Understanding Corporate Real Estate Transactions

• 5 critical aspects of aligning business and real estate strategy
• 21 fact filled real estate strategies
• 8 alternative strategies to acquire real estate
• 7 alternative real estate disposition strategies
• Decision making tips for renegotiating existing leases
• 4 key analytical points to ponder to help you decide whether to lease or purchase real estate
• 15 important financial tips and guidelines
• Benefits and Pitfalls of 15 alternative transaction structures
• 3 profitability strategies your company can implement without completing a real estate transaction
• 43 disciplines that may enhance your project’s success
• Tips on negotiations, service provider competencies, and team building
• 21 websites where you’ll find additional knowledge on related topics
• How to LEARN MORE

The only reason your company needs real estate is because it has business to conduct and needs a place in which to do it. For most corporate occupants, real estate is first about securing facilities adequate to support and promote their business objectives and the interests of stakeholders. Simultaneously, the corporation must conserve cash and see to it that the manner in which it occupies real estate is supportive of a multitude of objectives, including its operational requirements.

Find out more by reading the entire text of The CFO’s Guide: To Understanding Corporate Real Estate Transactions when it’s published. Request your copy.

Andrew B. Zezas, SIOR, is Relationship Manager, Strategist, and President & CEO of Real Estate Strategies Corporation, Publisher of "Business, Profits and Strategy", a monthly online publication read by thousands of business, financial, and real estate executives nationally, and, is the author of two new real estate books, The CFO's Guide to Understanding Corporate Real Estate Transactions and The CFO's Guide to Hiring the "Right" Real Estate Service Provider, both of which will be available shortly at www.thecfosguide.com.

Mr. Zezas is well-known for his ease and informative style of public speaking, and has given talks, presentations, and has lead educational programs for business, professional, government, and trade associations, including the Building Owners and Managers Association, American Management Association, the U.S. Postal Service, RealComm, Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR), and others. Andrew is National Chairman of the SIOR Tenant Representation Specialty Practice Board, and is a licensed real estate instructor in Texas and Indiana. He can be reached at 908 245 5999 or via email.

Real Estate Strategies Corporation, located in Kenilworth, New Jersey, and serving clients throughout the country, helps companies create and execute Business DRIVEN Real Estate Solutions...and Opportunities, faster and with less risk. Visit www.realstrat.com.

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