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What San Francisco Businesses Should Know About Tenant Representation
Tenant representation gives San Francisco businesses a commercial real estate broker or agent who works on their side of the negotiating table. TenantBase's network of independently licensed San Francisco commercial real estate partner brokers is built from years of experience and thousands of matches with local searches. Tenant reps can help you understand which submarkets are moving fastest, which property types are tightening, and what to think about for your specific use and business type. Whether you're searching for office space downtown, retail space along a growth corridor, industrial and warehouse space near the interstate, or medical office space close to a hospital system, our matching platform pairs you with a San Francisco tenant representation broker who already knows that specific market and works with businesses like yours. This can help with a comprehensive search process, more effective negotiations, and lease terms shaped by someone who is working on your behalf to get the deal.
Tenant reps in our Partner Network include these firms and designations
Avison Young
CCIM
Coldwell Banker Commercial
Cresa
eXp Commercial
Kidder Mathews
KW Commercial
Lee & Associates
Lincoln Property Group
NAI
SIOR
Transwestern
+ Independent Firms
Avison Young
CCIM
Coldwell Banker Commercial
Cresa
eXp Commercial
Kidder Mathews
KW Commercial
Lee & Associates
Lincoln Property Group
NAI
SIOR
Transwestern
+ Independent Firms
TenantBase Partner Network
Meet the San Francisco partner brokers serving San Francisco businesses
Every partner broker is an independently licensed real estate professional who provides tenant representation services in the San Francisco market.
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Start Your MatchBilingual Advisor
This advisor specializes in the leasing and sale of commercial properties across San Francisco, with a track record that includes representing sellers and tenants across office, retail, and law-firm space. Fluent in two languages, he brings an international perspective to Bay Area transactions.
Specialty: Flex · General — San Francisco
1MM+ SF leased$1B+ in sales
With a career spanning the dot-com era to today, this advisor specializes in investment and development across Downtown San Francisco and the Bay Area, advising building owners, tenants, and developers alike. Over the course of his brokerage career he has closed more than a million square feet of leasing transactions and over a billion dollars in investment sales.
Specialty: Creative · Flex · Manufacturing · General — San Francisco
20+ yrs experienceTop 5 Producer
One of the most active advisors in San Francisco commercial real estate, this broker has spent over two decades helping clients develop and implement headquarters strategies. A consistent top-five producer for his firm and region, he specializes in both tenant and landlord representation.
Specialty: Flex · Manufacturing · General · Warehouse — San Francisco
20+ yrs experience
Based just north of San Francisco in Marin County, this advisor specializes in office and retail leasing, representing both landlords and tenants. A background in data and analytics across banking, biotech, and software gives him an unusually quantitative approach to evaluating commercial real estate opportunities.
Specialty: Creative · Medical · Storefront · Flex — San Francisco
No Cost to Tenants
This San Francisco Bay Area team specializes in tenant representation across startups and established businesses alike, handling everything from first office leases to complex multi-headquarters transactions. Their fee structure means tenants pay nothing out of pocket for the representation they receive.
Specialty: Creative · Flex · General — San Francisco
JD, Real Estate Law
With deep experience in landlord/tenant issues, land use regulation, and commercial leasing, this advisor has built relationships with local, regional, and national landlords and tenants across San Francisco. His legal background, including a certificate in real estate law, informs a detail-oriented approach to lease negotiation.
Specialty: Creative · Medical · Storefront · Flex — San Francisco
5 yrs experience
This commercial real estate associate specializes in landlord and tenant representation as well as investment sales, bringing a focused, detail-driven approach to every transaction in the San Francisco market.
Specialty: Creative · Medical · Storefront · Flex — San Francisco
20 yrs experience
A seasoned real estate and construction professional, this advisor brings two decades of experience in property development, management, and both commercial and residential construction. As an owner and broker, he has managed real estate portfolios and overseen development projects across multiple states, with expertise spanning acquisitions, sales, leases, and entitlements.
Specialty: Creative · Medical · Storefront · Flex — San Francisco
Cross-Border Experience
This advisor works with landlords and prospective tenants across the competitive Bay Area real estate market, helping everyone from early-stage startups to established companies, non-profits, and law firms find creative office solutions. His background includes work with large institutional landlords in Toronto before moving into the Bay Area market.
Specialty: Creative · Flex · General · Warehouse — San Francisco
60+ combined yrs
This team brings over sixty years of combined tenant representation experience serving high-growth technology companies from seed round through post-IPO. Their work spans the full lifecycle of a growing company's real estate needs, both domestically and internationally.
Specialty: Flex · Manufacturing · General · Warehouse — San Francisco
35+ yrs experienceIndependent Firm Founder
With more than three decades as an active real estate broker, this advisor founded and leads his own San Francisco commercial real estate firm, built on independence, technology, and hands-on client service. A consistent top producer throughout his career, he combines deep business acumen with close market monitoring to guide clients toward the best available opportunities.
Specialty: Creative · Medical · Storefront · Flex — San Francisco
Tech-Focused Advisor
This advisor helps companies find office space, with a particular focus on maximizing the value of a client's culture, people, and physical workspace. His client roster spans a range of high-growth technology and venture-backed companies across San Francisco.
Specialty: Creative · Flex · Coworking — San Francisco
National Healthcare Chair
This advisor holds a national healthcare leadership role within her commercial real estate brokerage, coordinating healthcare-related real estate activity including medical and dental office buildings and seniors housing. She is recognized for her expertise in medical office and neighborhood commercial buildings throughout the region.
Specialty: Medical — San Francisco
Lease Restructuring Focus
This San Francisco–based advisor specializes in leasing and tenant representation, with particular expertise in blend-and-extend strategies to lower rent, negotiate more favorable terms, and right-size space for clients looking to shed excess square footage.
Specialty: Manufacturing · General · Warehouse — San Francisco
6 yrs experience
This advisor specializes in helping technology and professional services firms develop and implement real estate strategies, from site identification through lease negotiation. His technical grounding in the transaction process gives him a broad understanding of the principles that matter most in a deal.
Specialty: Creative · Flex · Manufacturing · General — San Francisco
600M+ SF represented$10B+ lease value
This locally based, technology-forward team brings decades of combined brokerage experience representing hundreds of millions of square feet of commercial space, with billions of dollars in aggregate lease value and investment sales completed for their San Francisco Bay Area clients.
Specialty: Creative · Medical · Storefront · Flex — San Francisco
Global Tenant Advisory
Part of a global tenant advisory practice, this advisor's team focuses exclusively on representing tenants and optimizing their real estate portfolios through flexible strategies that scale with a company's operations, enhance culture, and mitigate cost. Backed by advanced real estate technology, the team takes a proactive, data-driven, and tailored approach for its clients.
Specialty: Creative · Medical · Storefront · Flex — San Francisco
Industrial & Flex Focus
This advisor specializes in the acquisition and disposition of industrial and flex commercial real estate on the San Francisco Peninsula. Before entering commercial real estate, he spent years working as a golf professional, and brings that same disciplined, client-focused approach to his brokerage work.
Specialty: Flex · Manufacturing · Warehouse — San Francisco
15 yrs experience
This seasoned commercial real estate advisor focuses on investment sales, leasing, and construction project management, dedicated to supporting technology and professional services firms in their real estate strategies. He offers expert guidance on site selection, lease negotiations, and streamlined tenant-improvement buildouts.
Specialty: Creative · Medical · Flex · General — San Francisco
5 yrs experience
This investment advisor specializes in commercial real estate sales and leasing throughout San Francisco and the Peninsula, with a background originating investor loans on a national level before transitioning into brokerage. He's passionate about helping clients build and scale their real estate portfolios.
Specialty: Flex · Manufacturing · General · Warehouse — San Francisco
Hyper-Growth Focus
This advisor is part of a tenant advisory team serving hyper-growth companies across the Bay Area and Sacramento, providing strategy, planning, analysis, and execution for real estate transactions of all sizes. He approaches every deal with an ownership mindset to make sure clients achieve their specific goals.
Specialty: Medical · General · Coworking — San Francisco
VC-Backed Client Focus
This advisor specializes in representing venture-backed companies searching for office space in San Francisco, with a team built to scale alongside clients as they grow from a handful of employees into much larger organizations. His approach emphasizes access to off-market space, thorough building diligence, and full transparency through market data.
Specialty: Creative · Flex — San Francisco
Industry Award Winner
A co-founder and managing partner of a commercial real estate brokerage with multiple offices across the San Francisco Bay Area, this advisor has received top-producer industry recognition. He specializes in sourcing investment opportunities for local and international developers, investors, and asset managers.
Specialty: Creative · Medical · Storefront · Flex — San Francisco
17+ yrs experience500+ transactions
A co-founder and principal of a full-service San Francisco commercial real estate firm, this advisor specializes in tenant representation across the city and greater Bay Area. Over the course of his career he has completed hundreds of leases and investment sales, with a specialty in relocations, expansions, consolidations, and owner-user transactions.
Specialty: Creative · Medical · Flex · General — San Francisco
San Francisco Native
A San Francisco native, this advisor specializes in helping tenants find great deals in a challenging local office market, drawing on lifelong familiarity with the city's neighborhoods and submarkets.
Specialty: Creative · Flex · General — San Francisco
Retail & Mixed-Use Focus
This advisor specializes in retail and mixed-use commercial real estate throughout San Francisco, working with both property owners and businesses on leasing and investment sales. A data-driven, financially grounded approach helps clients maximize long-term value from their real estate decisions.
Specialty: Storefront · Restaurant · General — San Francisco
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1. Tell us what you needSpace type, size, timeline, and submarket — about two minutes.
2. Get matchedWe pair you with a local partner broker who works your property and business type.
3. Tour, negotiate, signYour partner broker supports the process end-to-end, working on your behalf.
Live Tenant Demand
Types of Commercial Space San Francisco Businesses Are Looking For Right Now
These businesses are using TenantBase to search for commercial space in the following categories. Office leads active demand at 37.96%, flex / industrial at 35.04%, retail / storefront at 19.71% — based on 137 active TenantBase tenant searches in San Francisco over the past 90 days.
Office 37.96%
Flex / Industrial 35.04%
Retail / Storefront 19.71%
Warehouse 5.84%
Medical 1.46%
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FAQ
Common Questions About San Francisco Tenant Representation
How much does office space cost in San Francisco?
TenantBase's Q2 2026 San Francisco market report notes office vacancy has eased from its historic peak on back-to-back quarters of positive net absorption (no single vacancy percentage published this quarter), with the citywide average asking rate rising to $69.16 per SF annually on a gross basis. Office tenants favor short-term commitments — 50.00% sign leases under 1 year and another 26.19% sign 2–3 year terms. A San Francisco partner broker can pull current asking rates for the specific submarket and size range you need.
How much do retail and industrial/warehouse space cost in San Francisco?
TenantBase's Q2 2026 San Francisco report puts retail vacancy at a comparatively tight 6.5% countywide, with direct average asking rents stabilizing near $33.84 per SF; retail tenants most often sign 3–5 year leases (33.33%). Industrial/warehouse vacancy runs around 11.5%, with asking rates described only qualitatively as sitting at a premium relative to broader national benchmarks; warehouse tenants most often sign under-1-year terms (53.33%). A San Francisco partner broker can provide current pricing for a specific property type and submarket.
What type of commercial space is most in demand in San Francisco?
Based on 137 active TenantBase tenant searches classified across five categories over the past 90 days, office leads active demand in San Francisco at 37.96%, followed by flex / industrial at 35.04%, retail / storefront at 19.71%, warehouse at 5.84%, and medical at 1.46%. TenantBase's own Q2 2026 San Francisco market report tracks demand with a coarser, three-bucket breakdown over a similarly-sized (128-deal) window that instead finds Storefront/Retail leading: Storefront/Retail 40.63% (52 deals), Office 37.50% (48 deals), and Warehouse 21.88% (28 deals) — the rankings diverge on the #1 spot, most likely because the report's scheme has no separate Flex bucket, so San Francisco's flex-space demand is likely absorbed into the report's Retail and/or Office buckets.
What San Francisco submarkets does TenantBase cover?
TenantBase's partner brokers cover submarkets across San Francisco, including Mission District, Financial District, SOMA, Jackson Square, and Mission Bay — the top submarkets with dedicated live pages by deal volume in our own live tenant-search data — spanning office, retail, industrial, warehouse, and medical property types. Mission District is also among the five neighborhoods TenantBase's own San Francisco market page features in its navigation, alongside Noe Valley, Pacific Heights, the Marina District, and the Richmond.
What lease terms are most common for San Francisco tenants?
Lease-term preferences vary by property type — TenantBase's Q2 2026 San Francisco report shows office tenants strongly favoring short-term (under 1 year) leases (50.00%), warehouse tenants also favoring under-1-year terms (53.33%), and retail tenants most often signing 3–5 year leases (33.33%). A San Francisco partner broker can help you weigh the right term length for your specific search and property type.
How much office space do I need per employee?
Plan on roughly 150–250 square feet per employee for a standard mixed layout: dense, open floor plans run 100–150 SF per person, while spacious or private-office-heavy layouts run 250–350 SF per person. A 10-person team typically needs about 1,500–2,500 SF. A San Francisco partner broker can help you right-size before touring so you don't pay for space you won't use.
How long does it take to find commercial space in San Francisco?
Timelines vary by property type and size, but most San Francisco tenants move from initial search to signed lease in roughly 60–120 days when working with a dedicated tenant representation partner broker.
What does a tenant representation broker do in San Francisco?
A San Francisco tenant representation broker works exclusively for a business searching for commercial space — surveying the local market, touring options, and negotiating lease terms on the tenant's behalf, rather than the landlord's. This is different from a listing agent, who represents the landlord and is focused on leasing one specific building; a tenant rep has no incentive to favor any one property.
How do I find office space in San Francisco?
The fastest way is to work with a San Francisco tenant rep who already tracks available office inventory across submarkets like Mission District, Financial District, and SOMA — they can surface options that fit your size, budget, and timeline faster than searching listings alone.
Do I need a broker to lease commercial space in San Francisco?
You're not required to use one, but a tenant representation broker works exclusively for you — not the landlord — and typically costs you nothing, since landlords already budget for the leasing commission. TenantBase connects you with a San Francisco partner broker who handles tours, comparisons, and negotiation on your behalf at no cost.
Is tenant representation free for businesses?
Yes. Tenant representation typically does not have a direct cost to the business — brokers are compensated by the landlord at lease signing, so working with a TenantBase partner broker is free for the tenant.
What is TenantBase, and how does it work?
TenantBase is a technology platform built for commercial tenants. It pairs a searchable, broker-sourced database of office, retail, industrial, warehouse, and medical space with a network of independently licensed local partner brokers — you browse available San Francisco space by property type and submarket, get matched with a local partner broker, tour the spaces that fit, and get support through negotiation and signing, all at no cost to the tenant.
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Market data source: Rent, vacancy, and lease-term figures cited on this page are drawn from TenantBase's Q2 2026 San Francisco Market Report.
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