Guidance
How to develop, negotiate, and implement green leases
Resource |
Audience & Building Type |
Description |
Author |
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Landlord, Tenant
Commercial |
This toolkit is designed for landlords and tenants to learn about the benefits of green leasing, explore opportunities for green leasing at their buildings, and learn how to create a green lease.
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Broker, Landlord, Tenant
Commercial |
This toolkit provides brokers with resources to capture the full value of efficiency when a building is sold or leased. It also provides owners and managers with insights into brokers’ priorities in facilitating the sale of a commercial property.
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Landlord, Tenant
Retail, Commercial |
This guide explores the benefits, barriers, and strategies to installing solar on leased buildings, including commercial real estate.
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US Department of Energy's Better Buildings Alliance
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Landlord, Tenant,
Commercial |
This report details how energy disclosure ordinances have increased green leasing adoption, and provides model green lease language that has been used by tenants and landlords.
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Landlord, Tenant
Retail |
A document for retailers and retail owners presenting basic green lease concepts.
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Landlord, Tenant
Retail |
Advice retail landlords and tenants can take to prepare to implement green lease language, and sample clauses for direct inclusion.
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Tenant
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NRDC outlines the key steps to selecting a high-performing tenant space.
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Landlord, Tenant
Commercial |
A guide to landlord-tenant collaboration, including issues outside the lease scope
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Rocky Mountain Institute and BOMA International
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Landlord, Tenant
Commercial |
This guide provides direction for negotiating commercial leases that enable resource efficiency.
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Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
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Landlord
Commercial |
Case studies on commercial office buildings that used green leasing to raise occupancy
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Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
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Landlord, Tenant
Commercial, Retail, Mixed-Use |
A report that discusses split incentives in leasing structures and provides average ROI data on varying types of leases
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Rocky Mountain Institute
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Landlord, Tenant
Residential |
A lease provision database, marketing, materials, scorecards, and lease options matrix
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California Sustainability Alliance
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Landlord, Tenant
Commercial, LEED |
This guide is specifically focused on helping tenants and landlords collaborate. It will help office tenants integrate green decision-making throughout the leasing process.
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USGBC
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