Phoenix Metro · Tenant Representation

We don’t find you a building.
We prove it works.

Our proprietary location intelligence captures the full financial picture of every alternative — costs, risks, and opportunities that impact your bottom line — before you sign anything. Check out Our Approach ↓

Maris Advisors represents tenants and buyers exclusively — never landlords. That single commitment changes every conversation, every negotiation, and every outcome.

I am a…

Across 26 property types — office, medical, lab, warehouse, cold storage, manufacturing, fabs, data centers, flex, retail, education, and more.

32 years
Corporate Consultancy
Building companies and advising tenants across the country — Fortune 500 to emerging firms.
30%
Of Our Commission, Into Your Deal
Negotiated down with the landlord and written into your lease — rent, improvement allowance, or free rent, decided with you.
0
Landlord Clients. Ever.
No conflicts. No divided loyalties. No landlord relationships clouding your negotiation.
Our Commitment
Tenant representation only — no exceptions
Our Intelligence
Institutional-grade market research for every deal
Our Difference
We find what your landlord hopes you never ask about
Zero Conflicts of Interest

We have never represented a landlord. We never will.

Most commercial real estate firms represent both landlords and tenants — sometimes in the same building, sometimes in the same transaction. That’s a conflict of interest that is legal, common, and almost never disclosed clearly.

Maris Advisors was founded on a single principle: the tenant’s interests come first, last, and always. That’s not a marketing position. It’s a structural commitment built into every engagement we take.

  • No landlord relationships to protect when negotiating your deal
  • No pressure to steer you toward buildings where we earn both sides
  • No incentive to close quickly at a number that works for the landlord
  • Complete transparency on every commission, every deal, every time
  • Your requirements and terms are never entered into any shared industry database

“We had worked with a full-service firm for years and assumed they were representing our interests. When we switched to Maris Advisors, we discovered our previous broker had also been representing the landlord of our building. The difference in how hard someone fights for you is profound.”

CFO · Phoenix Professional Services Firm
The Market’s Numbers Are a Floor

The “market rate” is a record of what other tenants accepted.

Maris Advisors works with full command of the market data any executive expects — availability, rates, comparables, absorption. But behind that sits a proprietary intelligence layer reading signals the industry’s shared databases don’t carry, built for exactly one side of the table.

And it changes what the comps mean: every brokerage can quote them. Treated as gospel, they become a ceiling — a list of concessions landlords have already conceded, presented as the limit of the possible. Maris Advisors treats them as a floor. The question is never “what did the market accept?” It is “what will this deal bear?”

What refusing the comps ceiling has produced, across a career of tenant-only advocacy:

12 months of free rent on the table — the landlord’s “market” offer.
18 months of free rent secured for a national insurance client, at the property that earned the deal.
24 months of free rent secured for a global engineering client.

Past results, each from its own negotiation and its own market. Conditions change and leverage varies — no number here is a promise. The constant is the approach: every deal pushed past what the comps called possible.

What Tenants Face

We solve the real problems tenants encounter.

Most companies approach real estate reactively — lease expiration is coming and suddenly they’re negotiating under time pressure with a landlord who does this every day. We change that dynamic entirely.

PROBLEM 01
You don’t know if you’re paying market rate

Landlords price space based on what they can get. Without real-time market intelligence — absorption data, competing availabilities, landlord vacancy exposure — you’re negotiating blind.

→ We provide a complete market picture before you ever make an offer
PROBLEM 02
Your lease has provisions you don’t fully understand

Operating expense clauses, CAM definitions, gross-up provisions, holdover penalties, HVAC standards, sublease restrictions — most leases contain dozens of landlord-favorable provisions tenants never scrutinize.

→ We analyze every clause before you sign and every CAM bill before you pay it
PROBLEM 03
You’re not sure whether to renew or relocate

Staying is easier. Moving is expensive. But staying in the wrong space at above-market rent is more expensive than either. The right answer requires a full financial analysis, not a gut feel.

→ We model the true cost of both paths and tell you which one wins
PROBLEM 04
Your CAM charges may be wrong

Landlords regularly include capital improvements, excluded costs, and above-market management fees in CAM reconciliations. Most tenants pay without question. The overcharges are real and recoverable.

→ We audit your reconciliation and document what shouldn’t be there — line by line
PROBLEM 05
You don’t know the landlord’s true negotiating position

A landlord showing strength at the table may be facing loan maturity, rising vacancy, or distressed debt behind the scenes. That context changes everything about how hard you can push.

→ We research who really owns the building and who they owe — before negotiations begin
PROBLEM 06
Your move is going to be more complicated than you think

Coordinating vendors, managing build-out timelines, updating 40+ government and vendor addresses, maintaining business continuity — office relocations routinely go sideways without professional oversight.

→ We keep the whole move on one timeline, lease signing through move-in day
PROBLEM 07
You don’t know how much space you actually need

Companies guess from today’s headcount and pay for the error across the full lease term — too much space is sunk cost, too little forces an early exit.

→ We model your true space program before you tour a single building
PROBLEM 08
You’re not sure whether to lease or buy

Ownership looks attractive until tax treatment, capital costs, and exit flexibility enter the math. The right answer is financial, not emotional.

→ We compare both paths on NPV, tax treatment, and total cost of occupancy
PROBLEM 09
Your deal economics may be missing available incentives

Arizona programs exist at state, county, and municipal layers — most tenants never screen for them before committing to a location.

→ We screen every candidate location against available programs
PROBLEM 10
Your best building may be a hiring problem

The right space in the wrong location fights your workforce every day — commute tolerance decides who applies and who stays.

→ We map your labor pool against every candidate building
PROBLEM 11
You’re buying with the seller’s broker in the room

In a purchase without your own representation, dual agency is legal, common, and expensive.

→ We represent buyers only — no dual agency, full transparency
PROBLEM 12
You know the rent but not the building

Flood exposure, air quality, crime, permit history, walkability — the factors that shape daily operations rarely appear in a marketing flyer.

→ We score every building on more than 80 factors before you commit
How We Work

From first call to keys in hand — and beyond.

STEP 01
Deep Needs Analysis

We start by understanding your business — not just your square footage. Headcount, growth trajectory, culture, work model, location priorities, deal parameters. We build a precise space program before we ever show you a building.

STEP 02
Market Research & Site Selection

Comprehensive submarket analysis, building-level research on every candidate, the landlord’s recorded ownership and debt, competing tenant activity. Every option is thoroughly vetted before you spend time on a tour.

STEP 03
Negotiation & Lease Review

Leverage-based negotiation using real market data. Full business-terms review — every clause, every exhibit, every operating expense definition — so your counsel spends their hours on the law, not on finding the traps.

STEP 04
Ongoing Representation

Move coordination, CAM reconciliation review, renewal planning — we stay engaged well past move-in day. Annual operating expense audits catch overcharges before they compound over the lease term.

30%
The Maris Advisors 30% Commitment

Our commission is part of your deal. 30% of it goes back into the lease.

On every transaction, Maris Advisors works with the landlord to reduce its own commission by 30%, and that value goes into your lease. Where it lands — rent, improvement allowance, free rent — is decided with you at the table. Nothing is paid back to you separately; the savings are written into the deal itself.

How it works: At engagement, we agree where the value should land. In negotiation, the reduction is built into the landlord’s economics. At closing, the lease shows it — with documentation your CFO can take to the board.
Where to Start

You’ve heard what we do. Here’s where to start.

Each tool below maps to a specific moment in the tenancy lifecycle. Pick the one closest to where you are.

Renew or Relocate
Model renewal versus relocation side-by-side with full TCO and walk-away rent.
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OpEx Audit
Six-sector audit engine for OpEx and CAM overcharges, reclasses, and pass-through errors.
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Lease Analyzer
50-plus universal provisions plus a 26-sector clause library — the traps flagged before you sign.
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Lease vs. Buy
Compare leasing versus owning across NPV, tax treatment, and total cost of occupancy.
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ClearPath Purchase Engine
Tenant-side purchase representation with no dual-agency and full transparency.
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Move Tracker
Sector-specific move tracker covering 60 days pre-move through 30 days post-occupancy.
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SpaceLogic
Volumetric space calculator with eight industry presets across 17 office and 12 industrial Phoenix submarkets.
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Incentive Intelligence
Arizona incentive program screening across state, county, and municipal layers.
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Labor Logic
Labor proximity analysis matching your workforce profile to Phoenix submarkets.
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Building Intel
80-plus-factor building scorecard — walkability, commute, flood, air, crime, permits.
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Or if your situation doesn’t fit a tool — just call. 32 years of CRE means we’ve probably seen it before.

Get Started

Let’s talk about your real estate.

480-625-9059

sbordley@marisadvisors.com

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32 years of corporate consultancy. Serving tenants locally and nationwide. No landlord clients. No exceptions.