Our Company

Coldwell Banker Commercial Metro Brokers, Atlanta's premier commercial real estate firm is an independant affiliate of Coldwell Banker Commercial - part of the oldest and most respected national real estate brand in the country, which was founded after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 by Colbert Coldwell, who was later joined by Benjamin Banker.

As part of a collaborative network of independently owned and operated affiliates, the Coldwell Banker Commercial organization comprises over 260 companies and almost 3,000 professionals throughout the U.S., as well as internationally. In fact, CBC possesses the largest geographic footprint in today’s commercial real estate marketplace.

Our firm offers a full-service approach offering a single-source solution encompassing the acquisitions, disposal, and investment analysis of Industrial, Office, Retail and Investment properties.  

Serving both tenants and landlords is a highly knowledgeable staff with the analytical tools and skills so lacking in most brokerages today.

We service clients in the following properties: Office, Retail, Industrial, Land & Investment

Office
With over 123 million square feet of primary office space to choose from in 750 buildings and office parks larger than 50,000 square feet, Atlanta has many alternatives for an office location. Sorting through these alternatives to find the most desirable facility to meet a user's needs can be a formidable task.

Serving both Tenants and Landlords is an able and knowledgeable staff of Richard Bowers & Co.'s leasing agents whose understanding of the real estate opportunities in Atlanta is unequaled.

Retail
The selection for a retail client is in many ways the most demanding of all commercial real estate needs. Not only must our agents and brokers be attuned to the many factors considered on other types of leases, but they must also be keenly aware of the suitability of a location for a retail business in terms of demographics, traffic patterns, tenant mix, property image and much more.

From the initial steps of site selection to the final phases of lease language modifications, our proven professionals can provide advice to tenants that will conclude in the most cost-effective leasing agreements.

Industrial
Since Atlanta dominates the Southeast as a distribution center, a huge industrial real estate market has evolved to serve the needs of manufacturers, research and development companies, and high tech firms.

The Atlanta industrial market has over 600 million square feet in four major categories of space: business parks, bulk storage/distribution facilities, light manufacturing facilities, and heavy manufacturing facilities.

When considering factors such as highway accessibility, rail service, ceiling height, accommodation of corporate jets, floor load capacity, dock configuration, build-to-suit options, labor availability, tax incentives and power availability, our clients are thankful that they can depend on the expertise of Richard Bowers & Co.'s industrial leasing and sales team.

Tenant Representation

The scope of Tenant Services provided by The Martin Wise Group, in conjunction with Coldwell Banker Commercial Metro Brokers, is unmatched in the Atlanta market from several standpoints including experience, efficiency, practicality, and analytical capabilities.

The client can clearly ascertain not only the cost of the space selected, but also how much it will cost to prepare it for occupancy and move into it. In structuring the economics of a real estate transaction, which is second only to personnel expenses in cost to an organization, it makes sense to have a tenant representative that can help you control all the variables in the project, and thus enable you to better manage your bottom line.



Our approach to our Tenant Representation Services are as follows:

Defining Parameters: 
The Martin Wise Group is very thorough in assisting clients in identifying all the details of a real estate project. These details include: space programming, determining submarket preferences, economic budgets, lease terms, expansion and renewal requirements, ergonomics, building profile requirements, special facility needs, amenities, and business needs.

Market Survey:
We utilize our database, research department, and support staff to compile a comprehensive survey with rental rate approximations, building characteristics, and pictorial imaging for the client's review. Our market surveys are tailored to the client's needs and can include space availability in major developments, subleases, small buildings for sale or lease, pre-leases, and build-to-suit opportunities.

Inspection of Alternatives:
Through our extensive experience in the marketplace, our agents are very efficient at conducting tours of properties under consideration and providing answers for our clients on the properties surveyed as well as on the general market.

Project Scheduling:
CBC Metro Brokers has the experience and internal capabilities to project the probable time requirements on various facility options available including acquisitions ions, build-to-suits, pre-leases, and leases.

Project Benchmarking:
Project Benchmarking is a process in which cost parameters, design parameters, and parameters for any other objectives are defined by the client at the outset of a project, thus insuring that their expectations are met.

Narrowing the Alternatives and Obtaining Proposals:
Our simplified format on Requests for Proposals allows our clients to obtain the required information in an efficient and timely manner so they may further study the most favorable alternatives. All economic factors are addressed, services to be provided by the Landlord are defined, required and beneficial building characteristics and amenities are determined, tenant expansion and renewal requirements are examined, and floor plans and standard lease documents are obtained.

Final Negotiations:
are conducted on those buildings of greatest interest to the client while we address any other issues, deficiencies, concerns, and objectives of the client. A Letter of Intent subject to legal review is then developed for Tenant approval, signature and presentation to the Landlord of choice. In certain instances, more than one Letter of Interest is presented based upon timing constraints and potential Landlord difficulty in obtaining closure.

Lease Language/Contract Review:
While we have extensive experience in providing lease language review, we are not attorneys. We can recommend experienced legal counselors specializing in real estate and can assist your attorney in providing comments when stalemates occur and compromises become necessary.