Government Real Property Leasing

The federal government leases more real property from private sector landlords than any other tenant in the United States, including hundreds of millions of square feet in downtown and suburban office buildings, warehouses and other properties.

One agency alone leases more than $5 billion worth of real property per year. State and local governments also lease millions of square feet of real property. Miles & Stockbridge lawyers help clients nationwide win and keep lucrative government tenants, loan and borrow money based on government lease receivables, and buy and sell buildings with government tenants.

Interacting with federal, state and local government tenants can be daunting because many times these tenants will not agree to standard commercial terms, make decisions in bureaucratic ways and have different objectives and constraints than private sector tenants. We serve our clients by taking the mystery, frustration and delay out of dealing with government tenants. We translate “government speak” into information on which businesses can act and profit, and help companies avoid or mitigate some of the dangerous economic and legal terms in government lease documents.