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Commercial real estate markets go boom and bust, but do strategies, practices and trends in handling office, retail and industrial leases shift with these cycles? The answer is yes—and no.

Sure, free rent or increased tenant improvement allowances rise with vacancy rates, and landlords offered plenty of both after the 2008 crash. As the market continues recovering, long-term leases at fixed rates are slowly overtaking short-term leases with expansion rights. Meanwhile, technology and accounting rules are spurring new ways of thinking on the landlord and tenant side—and brokers are in the middle, still trying to get deals done.

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