"We may see them first, before the commercial brokers, and build a relationship."

Those improvements, commercial brokers said, have helped the area's office market.

"I have never heard of the Japanese making a big mistake," a commercial broker said.

But the market is still healthy, developers and commercial brokers say.

At least three more companies plan to lease or buy buildings that will be built for them, commercial brokers said.

He later worked as a commercial real estate broker.

Her mother is a commercial real estate broker in New York.

To his puzzlement, it was the commercial brokers who responded.

In 2009, he started working as a commercial real estate broker in Manhattan.

FOR another commercial real estate broker, it would have been the deal of a lifetime.