Senior Advisor
Saaj Patel, Commercial Real Estate Advisor in Philadelphia.
I underwrite the deal, walk the property, and negotiate against comparable transactions.
I work with tenants, operators and buyers looking for space, and with landlords and owners trying to fill it or sell it. Either way the job runs on daily calls to ownership until the lease is signed or the sale closes.
- Role
- Senior Advisor
- Coverage
- Greater Philadelphia
- With the team since
- 2022
Standards
Four things you can count on.
The advisor you hire is the advisor on the deal
I run the numbers, walk the space and negotiate the terms myself.
I go see it myself
Data narrows the list. I walk every block on it before it reaches you.
Straight answers
If the deal is bad, you will hear it from me first.
KW Commercial behind the work
KW Commercial's national platform, with one advisor accountable for your file.
How I work
The work starts the first week.
Numbers first
Before anyone tours anything I pin down the numbers: what you can pay, how much space, what the buildout costs, what return you need, and the date you have to be open. Everything after that gets measured against it.
I call owners, day one
I pull ownership for every target building and call them directly, block by block, whether or not the space is advertised.
More than one option, on purpose
Leverage is having somewhere else to go. I keep several real options moving at once so no single landlord or seller runs the conversation.
Negotiate with the comps in hand
Rent, escalations, free rent, buildout money, options, or price and diligence terms on a sale, all traded as one package, with recent deals to back every ask.
You hear from me until it closes
Who I called, who called back, who passed and why, and where the deal stands.