Lead Advisor
Saaj Patel,
Commercial Advisor.
Finance background, street level instincts: I run the numbers, walk the block, then negotiate from real leverage, not guesses.
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
- Lead Advisor
- Coverage
- Greater Philadelphia
- With the team since
- 2022
Standards
Four things you can count on.
I'm the guy you hire, and I'm the guy on the deal
I run the numbers, walk the space and negotiate the terms myself.
I go see it myself
Data narrows the list. Walking the block tells me the truth.
Straight answers
If the deal is bad, you will hear it straight, not spun for the commission.
Big platform, local guy
Backed by KW's national platform, but I answer my own phone.
How I work
The work starts the first week, not after the lease.
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
Most brokers post the requirement and wait. I pick up the phone: owners, operators, listing agents, block by block, whether or not anything 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. No going quiet.