With an increasing number of companies in Houston, Austin, and San Antonio gearing up from partial reopens all the way on up to full-blown all-hands-on-deck returns to their places of business, NAI Partners Landlord Services Division has been advising its CRE clients in those markets around the clock on best practices for a safe reentry.

“Obviously, nothing is more important than employee health and safety and, with it being incumbent upon businesses returning to their places of business to implement their own risk-tolerant protocols, our Property Services personnel are taking a proactive approach to ensure everyone’s continued well-being,” said Jim Tainter, Partner and Managing Director of NAI Partners’ Landlord Services Division. “Some of the recommendations we’ve been making to our returning tenants as well as the initiatives that we have established in our office building common areas include making face masks available to our returning tenancy, putting up hand sanitizing stations in the lobbies, limiting the number of people in elevators and building conference rooms; and ensuring all face-to-face communication adheres to six-foot social distancing guidelines.”

Amid the uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the company’s Landlord Services Division has remained steadfast in its exemplary level of service delivery to its project leasing and property management clients, and even recently exceeded 15 million sq. ft. of office, industrial, and retail properties under leasing or management in NAI Partners’ markets of Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and Tampa.

Some of the Division’s recent significant new assignments brought on during the pandemic include:

• Bayou Place II, a 158,000-sq.-ft. project leasing assignment in downtown Houston;
• Avera Commerce Center, a 245,000-sq.-ft. project leasing and property management assignment in Stafford, TX; and,
• T-Mobile Tower, a 140,000-sq.-ft. medical/office building property management assignment.

“I remain extraordinarily grateful to our clients, both current and new, for their support and trust in NAI Partners to help them realize their respective commercial real estate investment objectives,” Mr. Tainter said. “We couldn’t do it without the extremely capable and loyal talent we have been able to attract, bring on, and cultivate. Our Landlord Services Division leverages and builds on their strengths. The result is a truly collaborative services platform that is highly attractive to top performers—hard-working professionals who never lose sight of our desire to deliver exceptional service results every day. We do this by putting the client’s needs first, and always delivering service from the owner’s perspective.”

About Partners

Partners is the 5th-largest Houston-Area Commercial Real Estate Brokerage, the #1 Mover of Square Feet among leasing and sales brokerages, the largest independently owned and among the largest owner-operated commercial real estate firms in Houston, Texas, per The Houston Business Journal. Partners was founded and is headquartered in Houston and has offices in San Antonio and Austin; offers the geographic expertise to complete real estate transactions throughout the state of Texas; and can leverage the power of the NAI Global network to arrange deals in any location throughout the world. Partners employs more than 100 real estate professionals, and arranges more transactions than any of its competitors, completing over 500 commercial lease and sale arrangements every year. Partners is a full-service firm offering client leasing and sales solutions in the areas of office tenant representation, office landlord representation, industrial tenant representation, industrial landlord representation, landlord services, retail services, property management, investment sales, an investment fund, and project management, among other services. The company has been named a Best Place to Work by the Houston Chronicle, Houston Business Journal and Austin Business Journal, and is among the University of Houston’s Cougar 100 Fastest-Growing Companies. Please visit us on the web at  www.naipartners.com.