Expanding Your Business to New York City?
Lokal CRE helps international companies establish and grow their presence in New York. We provide local expertise and tenant representation to help companies navigate the NYC office market, from determining space requirements and choosing the right location to negotiating lease terms and securing the right office for their team.
Your Local Partner in New York
Expanding into New York means navigating a new real estate market, unfamiliar lease structures, neighborhoods, costs, and local business practices. Lokal CRE acts as your local real estate partner, helping international companies understand the market and make informed office decisions from their first New York location through future growth.
More Than an Office. Your New York Location Matters.
Establishing an office in New York is about more than finding available space. The right location and workplace can influence how you recruit talent, how employees get to work, how clients experience your company, and how easily your business can grow.
Access to Talent
New York City offers one of the world's deepest and most diverse talent pools. The right office location, transit access, neighborhood, and workplace experience can play an important role in attracting and retaining talent and creating a place employees want to work.
Location & Connectivity
Where you locate matters. Subway access, proximity to major transportation hubs, clients, partners, and the neighborhoods where your employees live can all influence the right location for your team.
Space for Growth
International companies often enter New York with a relatively small team and grow quickly. Your office strategy should consider not only what you need today, but where the business could be in two or three years.
Lease Economics
New York leases can include more than the asking rent. Concessions, tenant improvements, operating expenses, escalations, security requirements, loss factor, and flexibility can materially affect the true economics of a deal.
How Lokal Helps International Companies Establish an Office in New York
Define Your Office Requirement
We help determine how much office space your team needs today and how those requirements may change as your New York operation grows, including headcount, layout, workplace needs, budget, timing, and lease flexibility.
Choose the Right New York Location
Manhattan’s office neighborhoods can vary significantly in cost, transportation, building quality, amenities, and access to talent. We help companies understand the NYC office market and identify locations that align with their employees, clients, brand, and growth strategy.
Find & Evaluate Office Space
We search the market for direct leases, subleases, furnished and turnkey offices, and flexible opportunities that fit your requirements. We then help compare the options based on both the space itself and the true economics of each opportunity.
Negotiate the Right Lease
As your tenant representative, Lokal CRE works on your behalf throughout the negotiation process. We help evaluate asking rents, concessions, tenant improvements, security requirements, lease flexibility, and other business terms to help you secure the right office on competitive terms.
Opening a New York office can be one of the most important steps in a company’s U.S. expansion. Lokal CRE provides local commercial real estate expertise and tenant representation to help international companies navigate the New York City office market from initial planning through lease execution.
Establishing a business in the United States involves more than securing office space. International companies may also need support with company formation, accounting and tax, banking, legal and compliance matters, insurance, immigration, recruiting, payroll, and other aspects of establishing and growing a U.S. operation.
Lokal CRE has built relationships with trusted professionals and organizations that work with international companies entering the U.S. market. When our clients need expertise beyond commercial real estate, we can help connect them with the right resources, giving companies a local network in New York as they establish and grow their U.S. presence.
A Local Network Beyond Real Estate
International Perspective. Local New York Expertise.
Originally from Sweden and now based in the United States, Lokal CRE founder Peter Rosenlow understands firsthand the challenges international companies can face when entering the U.S. market. Differences in business culture, communication, expectations, and the way commercial real estate transactions are structured can make establishing a New York office more complicated than it initially appears. That international perspective, combined with deep knowledge of the New York City commercial real estate market, allows Lokal CRE to help bridge the gap between how companies operate at home and how business gets done in New York. For international companies, having someone who understands both sides of that transition can make a meaningful difference.