The Importance Of Landlord And Tenant Collaboration

Episode Summary: In the sixth episode of The Measure Podcast by Metrikus, our host Michael Grant is joined by Michelle Landon, VP, Global Corporate Real Estate and Workplace Management at OMERS.

Episode theme: Efficiency

Episode highlights:
• The challenges commercial landlords face (02.50)
• Balancing strategic decisions between landlords and tenants (06.24)
• Ways in which landlords and tenants can work together and form a partnership (06.54)
• Where the challenges landlords are facing come from (12.42)
• Strategic decisions landlords can make that will have long term benefits (15.32)
• Michelle’s advice to landlords and tenants trying to drive efficiencies in their buildings (17.49)
• The most efficient building Michelle has ever worked in and why (22.55)
• Places that are accelerating building digitization and landlord/tenant partnerships (30.54)
• Advice for people starting out in commercial real estate (35.18)

Key Takeaways:
• “If a landlord provides a service where they can understand their spaces better, those are great opportunities for the market today for landlords and tenants to work closer together than they used to” - Michelle
• “What landlords need to be more strategic about is how to be in partnerships with their tenants and to understand the needs.” - Michelle
• “That's the way you capture the ability to have a long standing business and to have a great reputation in the business. I think landlords who do that will effectively help their brand to be seen as a market leader.” - Michell
• “I'm excited about seeing where a lot of the new technologies take us and understanding our spaces a bit better.” - Michelle
• “That's what we're trying to achieve in general. Getting the right value for the space that you've invested in.” - Michelle

Resources:
• Metrikus
• Metrikus Content Hub
• Oxford Properties

Metrikus
Metrikus is a building efficiency platform that helps organizations to make their spaces more efficient, creating positive change for occupants and the environment. Our cloud-based platform achieves this by aggregating data from multiple sources – whether it’s from IoT sensors, the Building Management System (BMS), or elsewhere – into one central place. And once we’ve helped you get your hands on the right data, our platform then transforms it to make it easier to analyze, compare and contextualize. 

 

Michael Grant is the co-founder and COO of Metrikus. Michael is an operations, strategy and management professional with over 20 years in the technology sector. Specializing in technology, software, IoT, ESG and cloud, Michael has over 10 years’ experience working at Senior Management and C-Level and has dealt with large teams to deliver solutions with exceptional service – clients include those from banking, commercial real estate and IT sectors.