How a tenant-representation-only firm evaluates buildings, models cost, and negotiates — and how the Maris Advisors analytical tools support each decision.
Maris Advisors scores buildings and their surroundings across roughly fifty factors drawn from live data sources — walkability, nearby amenities, commute patterns, flood-zone status, air quality, area crime, and recent permit activity among them. The output is a branded Building Intelligence scorecard of factual reference points about a location, not an assertion that a building is adequate, compliant, or suitable for a given use.
Base rent is one line in a much larger equation. Maris Advisors models Total Cost of Occupancy across the full term — escalations, operating-expense pass-throughs, tenant-improvement allowance, free rent, parking, and moving costs — so two deals can be compared on what they actually cost rather than on the quoted rate. The headline number frequently ranks differently once the full model is run.
Maris Advisors runs shortlisted buildings through a side-by-side comparison scorecard that places each option’s factors in the same frame and flags where one leads on a given measure. It replaces a subjective “which felt better” read with a documented comparison the tenant’s own team can interrogate.
For requirements where hiring drives the location, Labor Logic analyzes the labor available within a commute of candidate sites against the tenant’s specific skill and wage needs — turning “where can we staff this” from an assumption into a mapped, data-backed input rather than an afterthought discovered post-signing.
Maris Advisors runs a structured renew-versus-relocate analysis that puts staying and moving side by side across cost, disruption, and terms, rather than defaulting to renewal because it is easier. The comparison also supplies the leverage: a landlord negotiates differently against a tenant with a credible, analyzed alternative.
Maris Advisors maintains an after-tax net-present-value model comparing leasing against buying over a defined horizon. The model is an analytical resource that surfaces the economic tradeoffs; the decision itself rests with the client in consultation with its own CFO, CPA, and tax advisors.
Arizona offers a range of state and local incentive, abatement, and credit programs tied to factors such as job creation, capital investment, and where a facility locates. As an informational resource, Incentive Intelligence flags which programs may be relevant to a search; eligibility, application, and tax treatment are determined by the client together with its own CPA, tax, and legal advisors.
Maris Advisors captures how a business actually works — headcount, growth, department adjacencies, special-use requirements, and which factors matter most to the tenant — and converts it into a defensible space program up front. That program then drives the search, so touring starts from a defined requirement rather than reverse-engineering needs from whatever is on the market.
Maris Advisors publishes a quarterly Phoenix-market intelligence report tracking vacancy, absorption, and rent movement across submarkets, and produces ongoing market analysis beyond the standard broker’s numeric snapshot. A tenant negotiates from the same current data its counterpart on the other side of the table is using.
Maris Advisors represents the occupier’s side only — tenants and owner-occupiers alike — and never landlords, which structurally removes the conflict a dual-representing firm faces when a client’s search leads to a building that firm also lists. There is no scenario in which the firm’s interests sit on the opposite side of the client’s.
Maris Advisors incorporates flood-zone status (FEMA), air-quality data (EPA), and area crime into its building scorecard, so environmental and safety exposure surfaces as factual flags early in a search rather than during due diligence. These are reference points about a location, not assertions of a site’s safety, compliance, or fitness for a particular use.
Beyond negotiating the deal, Maris Advisors abstracts and analyzes lease terms and audits operating-expense pass-throughs to surface cost or risk buried in the document — escalation mechanics, expense-recovery language, and similar provisions. Findings are factual flags for the client and its own legal and accounting advisors to act on.
Maris Advisors issues a structured request for proposals to shortlisted landlords and scores the responses side by side — economics, terms, and concessions — in a single landscape comparison. Putting every proposal in the same frame keeps landlords competing on the tenant’s terms rather than each on its own format.
They share a common client profile that carries a tenant’s requirements through the search — from space program to building evaluation to cost modeling to renewal analysis — so each stage builds on the last rather than restarting. The result is one documented method, not a set of disconnected outputs.
Maris Advisors provides a phased move-coordination framework covering the tasks, vendors, and sequencing a relocation requires. It carries the engagement past signing into execution, so the transition is managed rather than improvised.
Maris Advisors maps the amenities around candidate buildings — dining, services, transit, and the like — that bear on employee attraction and daily experience. It turns “is this a place people want to come to” into a mapped, comparable input alongside cost and building quality.
Maris Advisors draws its scoring and market analysis from live public and commercial data sources — government datasets, mapping services, and market feeds — refreshed on a defined cycle rather than compiled once and left to age. Each tool documents the sources behind its outputs.
Because Maris Advisors represents tenants only, a client’s requirements, timing, and negotiating position are never shared with landlords beyond what the tenant chooses to disclose. There is no dual-representation channel through which a search could reach the other side of the table.